Findings to the first growing season of our planter tables

I have been a bit disappointed with the results. The soil was not holding water very well, despite the fact that I hat put in so much sheep wool and woodchips. When I watered the planter tables most of the water would drip out of the bottom, so that did not bring much.

The plants in the planter table did not grow very good. It looked nice and green, but there was not really much to harvest.

We had a very tiny Hokkaido pumpkin and a lot of tiny red beets. For a direct comparison I had planted some parsley seedlings in the planter table and in the garden at the same time. I forgot to take a picture of the parsley in the garden, but I actually harvested of those twice as to harvesting nothing from the parsley in the planter table, since these hardly grew.

The only thing that kept doing well, even in summer with little water and a lot of heat, was chard.

Obviously we only made the planter tables last spring and the soil has to set and develop first, so we are not going to jump to conclusions. In the spring we will ad some compost and mulch in form of woodchips to the planter tables and we have to think about what we are going to plant in there. I think plants that need a lot of nutrients and/ or water are not a good choice. We are probably going to plant some flowers, herbs and some lettuce, but who knows what I will think of until spring comes.