A bath anyone?

As I've said, a lot of the backyard is concrete. I really wanted a vegetable garden (in particular tomatoes), but DH said I wasn't to did up the lawn or the concrete until we had been in the house a few years. So how could I have a veggie garden on concrete? As fate would have it, I saw an episode on Gardening Australia about no dig garden's, which seemed suitable, but I would need something to contain the "soil". Somewhere I got the idea of using bathtubs, my DH's parent's had an old bathtub from when they renovated their bathroom, which they kindly donated to the cause. Follow the instructions from the gardening australia website see instructions here , I made the no dig recipe in the bathtub. I also included the weeper hose about half way down the bath for watering. In this with some compost I planted tomatoes, and basil. Very quickly after watering we had stinky brown watering running down the concrete. DH was not happy and tried to create a way for it to drain to the grass, didn't work so the bath got moved until it hung over the grass. The next problem was that the bath stank to high heaven. Everyone noticed and made comments. In hindsight, I realise now that I put way too much manure in the no-dig mix. It said "sprinkle" and I really made a layer of manure. The rest of the baths have been much better. So the bath was relegated to the back of the yard, where the tomatoes and basil grew beautifully and were enjoyed most of the summer. I was very proud of the end result and my perseverance to find solutions to problems.
This first photo gives an idea of how the bath looked as the plants started to grow. The rest of the photos are from the same time.


The next photo is of one of the tomato plants.


The next photo is of the basil. It was so yummy in pesto.


The last photo is of the cherry tomato plant. It was a weeping tomato and it hung over the bath and spread around on the ground as it grew more.