My sister uses free 5 gallon buckets for her backyard garden. She grows tomatoes, lettuce, radishes, squash, herbs and a lot of other vegetables out of free containers. When she moves, her garden moves with her.
Container Gardening: Free 5 Gal. Bucket Garden
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I've been using containers for my garden for 6 years now.
Hello, what is the general rule for 'plants per bucket'? And the ratio for companion plants (like the bucket with the radish)?
Great recommendation. Thank you.
Also, just had a thought, I used to work at a Hampton Inn and one of the things they have to serve is fruit, it comes in a small bucket or depending on who orders, sometimes larger ones. I am pretty sure they would give them away. I would use at least three to four of the smaller ones every week. They are obviously food grade and small ones are good for herbs, large ones good for tomatoes.
I don't know.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Everything will grow great in Wisconsin if you follow the laws of plant growth. See my Mittleider gardening method video series for more info.
Houston, Texas.
Great recommendations. Thank you for helping.
We live in the Houston, Texas area. Her garden is on the west side of her house. She mixed the soil by following the instructions in my "Off grid self-watering container gardening system" video series.
If the plants are in post with good drainage they will not get over watered. You will have to fertilize them more than usual because the nutrients will get washed out with all the rain.
I'm not certain without looking at it but it sounds like the soil could have been too wet which invited bugs and rotted the potatoes.
The garden is on the west side of the house. It get full sun for 6-8 hours a day.
A very cheap way to get calcium for your plants is to buy a 50# bag of concrete lime for about $8 at home depot.
They bought the soil ingredients and mixed it themselves.
How and where from did you get all the soil? I'm talking frugal gardening…gardening on a budget, LOL thanks
Known here as blossom-in-rot
I thank you for the info about bottom rot. I thought it was insects so I've been spraying them with detergent water. I had some calcium so I stopped your video and ground some pills with water and treated my tomato plants right away!!