How to grow a tote garden. Growing a flower and vegetable garden all year, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, greens, kale, collard, dragon fruit and more…with lots of growing tips.

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Hi, it’s Robbie from Southern California and today I have another deal for you. Now, normally when I find these super deals, I put the videos up and then I take them down as soon as they’re sold out. But I’m going to leave this one up because it’s about totes. The 18gallon Sterolite totes that you see I am surrounded with right now. And these are all a light gray. I’ve had these here since 2020, March 2020. That’s over five years. And they are going strong. I’ve had to replace one or two. I thought they didn’t look that good, so I went ahead and bought another one. But otherwise, some of these are just as old as that. And the chairs, we won’t even get into that. They’re over 20, 30 years old. So, today I’m going to talk about totes with a super deal at Walmart. My daughter messaged me this morning. They had just put them up and they are a really good price. You’re going to have to buy eight though and they’re for like $37 and change, but you’re paying like $4.75 for an 18gallon tote exactly like the ones that are here and you can grow in it for years. That’s cheaper than a grow bag, much cheaper than any of these raised beds. These raised beds cost you hundreds of dollars. They rust out. They collapse. They have all their own issues. And they’re so hard for some of us to handle when the soil kind of gets caked up and you want to refresh it. Oh my goodness. Have you ever tried to dig out a 100 gallons, not counting how much it costs you to fill one of those? And I’ve talked about that before. This is easy. Anybody can do it. You can put a garden up for a 5-year-old or younger. You could be almost a hundred years old if you can be mobile and you should be mobile doing gardening with this is so easy to grow in. And on top of that, as you see how I’m surrounded with these, I can do my gardening at one tote at a time, which you cannot do with a raised bed. You have to fill these giant raised beds all the way to the top. Even if it’s going to cost you $200, $300 to fill it with soil, you can do these one at a time and set up each individual tote to the liking of the plant you’re growing. You know that celery that’s growing in here needs a lot of water. Tomatoes don’t mind if they get a little dry. Peppers even like it drier. So, you can work with each individual group of plants in each tote. And you can put multiple plants in an 18gallon tote as long as you layer. Then you can get two or three different types of plants in there. I’ve got a purple tree colored growing there. So these right now come in three colors. I don’t know why they’ve been blowing out some of these sales. Maybe they’re trying to make room for the holiday ones coming in. They bring in the red and the green for Christmas. I don’t know. But they’ve got a really nice dark gray, not black. Then they’ve got a really nice green color and a light blue. This might be a good investment to do now if you’re not going to garden until spring. So you get into the holidays, do your thing, have your totes ready. Now remember, these come with lids and we cut the lids apart and we make tops for the lids. So whether we’re protecting our plants by stapling on some tulle or making a dome to let our plants grow in there and still putting tulle on the dome and the tulle is keeping out your birds, your rodents, your insects and keeping your food clean. Or you can cut the lid apart completely and make plant stakes, you know, to label your plants. There’s a lot of stuff we can do with it. So I wanted to come here and show you that. I’ll get the link underneath in Walmart. You’ll see the little picture. Now, if it’s gone or you go there and it’s sold out, the regular price for these totes are $6.98. $7 a piece. You can’t beat that. That’s their regular price. And they ship it to your house. You can always go to the store and get them or you can go to Home Depot and Lowe’s. They sell their own. They’re all normally the number five. Remember, one, two, four, and five are food grade. Those are foodgrade numbers that they use for our food in the grocery stores. Even number five, they use for microwaving food in, which I wouldn’t microwave food in plastic. Plastic doesn’t even start to break down until it’s like 130 to 150°. And they don’t get hot. I have earthworms and everything in here. Even at 100 degrees, the plants are comfortable. I can designate the water to the plants when it’s hot. and everything keeps going. These plants made it all through the heat. So, it works much better than, let’s say, a grow bag that dries up or you got to put a irrigation system on that just to make sure it stays wet enough because it dries on all four sides or all around and then it dries on the top. The only place it doesn’t dry on the bottom, but it wicks up. These can only dry from the top. And if you layer and put containers in there, it keeps it damp. There’s a lot of tricks we can do to keep it down. Now, I had a friend in the south that is in an area where he said he couldn’t grow because it was too wet. He had too much rain. That’s when you take these totes and you put holes everywhere all the way up. Put your holes in there so when you get a lot of rain, it drains out. Your soil may become boggy and your plants won’t grow, but the tote won’t because it’s sitting above the ground unless you’re in a flood. Otherwise, you can grow in these with too much rain and not enough rain. So, if you want, go check out the totes. Like I said, the normal price is $7, which is a fabulous price. I paid full price for these. Or you can start thinking about getting some on sale. Maybe you’re going to make a fall garden right now and plant a lot of lettuce and greens and carrots and beets, onions, because a lot of people are planting onions right now for the spring or summer when they’re ripe. You can plant all kinds of stuff right now. I am planting lettuce like Matt. You can plant all different types of lettuce. You can plant celery. Tomatoes are probably too late for a lot of you, but you could do brassacas. There’s a lot of stuff. brasacas, which are your tree collards and your regular collards and your kale. All those can still be grown until you have frost, until it gets cold. But you can get ready for the spring now and you’ll be jumping the gun and you’ll have all your containers ready to grow. I’m going to say for the average family, eight is enough. You can grow all kinds of things in there and I think you’re going to be really pleased and happy. Get them on chairs. If you’ve got gophers, your gophers won’t get in there. Your rabbits won’t get in there. If you’ve got other rodents or other things, well, then you may want to use the tool around there to keep them out, which I do. And I always put a link underneath the video in the description because I only buy this on eBay. It is so cheap. It’s under $10 for 50. It’s 54 in wide, 40 yards long. You’ll probably only need one of that for $10 free shipping. You can’t beat it. But that’s in my description. Sometimes you tap on the description and you don’t see anything, but you’ll see the little word more. Tap on more and you should be able to see the links. You can go check it out and if it’s to your liking, buy it. If not, back out and you’re gone and out of there. Now, another thing. What have I grown in here? I’ve also grown a lot of squash and a lot of watermelons. You can grow anything you want to grow corn in there. You should be able to get four to six corn stalks with good soil. But I’m telling you, the easiest garden to take care of, the fastest garden to take care of, and put something on the bottom where your drain holes are. I do a lot of deraniums on the bottom. It works fantastic. So, when I water the top and it drains out of the bottom, it goes straight into the containers. And I’ve got double duty. I’m done. Can you get a garden any easier than that? I don’t think so. So, check out the totes if you’re looking to make a container garden, whether it’s now or later. Or maybe you want to you don’t want that many. You know, maybe you want to make a small garden. Split it with a friend. They take four, you take four, and you’re going to get it so cheap and have a garden. So, check it out. So, with that, have a wonderful day. Don’t forget to eat what you grow. I want to say one more thing. They all need drainage. You’ve got to put holes in all of them. I’m gonna have to tell you something. This is I I’m ashamed to tell you. I changed out one of these totes because it looked like it needed to be changed out after five years. So, I just took it down, threw out the old one, and put all the soil back. But the new one, I forgot to make holes. I brought my my um power unit out here that I use with my soldering iron to make holes all the time. And then the other day it was water logged. Oh my gosh. I couldn’t believe it’s like why is it water logged? I just refreshened it just a matter of months ago, you know, before summer. I looked and looked. I never made holes. You know what the funny part was? I grew a ton of tomatoes in there. I grew geranium in there. I’m growing a pepper in there. And all this stuff grew without the tote ever having any drainage. That’s bad on me, but it worked. But you do need drainage. So, make sure you put holes in there and you’ll be good to go. But that’s just a funny story. Oh, well, I don’t know what else to say on that. But I just wanted to bring you this deal today. Check it out if that’s what you’re looking for or tell somebody else. Share this and tell them, “Hey, you want to make a container garden really cheap? This works fantastic. A tote garden.” Bye-bye. I don’t know how I did that without putting holes in it, but it worked. Go figure. Maybe that’s why they grew so well in the heat.

20 Comments

  1. Thanks for the tip, Robbie! I bought a bunch of these totes in 2020 after watching your chair garden video. They are still in workable shape, but a lot of the bottoms have warped because the pallets they are resting on rotted last year and broke every time I stepped on a slat….so most of the totes are leaning in one direction or another. I also didn’t plant a garden this year because of other commitments and because I kept putting off removing and breaking down those rotten pallets and replacing them with something else. I didn’t maintain my totes, so most of them have been overrun with weeds, so I’m not sure if the soil in these totes is salvageable from all of the weed/weed seed now thriving in it.

    My reasoning might be weak 😂, but I decided to buy a fresh batch of totes using your link. I’ll start with a clean slate next spring. The new totes will also allow me to set up the drainage holes similar to your totes that have one large hole with a plastic drain pipe emptying the tote’s excess water into a potted plant. I’m also not sad about starting over with that fresh sage green color. 😂 The old totes will be used to store the various winter and summer gardening gear (shade cloth, frost blankets, incandescent Xmas lights, fertilizer, etc) that I have accumulated since 2020.

  2. They were sold out in my Walmart in Kentucky but I ordered through your site!!! Yay!!! Free shipping also because I’m a member!! 🫶🏻🦋

  3. I just bought 6 in the burnt orange at my Walmart on clearance for 2 dollars a piece. I could have bought more but i had to remind myself I have limited space

  4. Walmart is selling these on clearance for $3.00 inside the store. They are clearing them for the holiday products. I purchased several last week.

  5. Thank you for letting us know about another great deal! I use these totes for storage besides in the garden and I always seem to need more. I just ordered a case of the green ones. They’re supposed to arrive on Friday.

  6. Thank you for letting us know. The last time they had the same deal, I missed out because I got busy & forgot to order in time.

  7. Robbie your videos help me sooooo much! am not a know it all, been gardening for years upon years and I still learn from you! In fact against my better judgement last fall I was in a pickle had to get my garlic planted so I had some corregated metal sheets and thought I will throw those together right quick and make a planter. 🤦‍♀️ bad choice I should have listened to you and did totes. The sides were flimsy, it dried out too much through the summer ugh so this year I kept the metal planter but inside put the totes. Now its pretty outside and functunal inside, thank you!!!

  8. Sad to report that the tulle that served me well for the last few years is no longer working to deter our California Ground Squirrels. I wrapped my raised bed with several layers of tulle. I made it about 4-5 feet tall. The squirrel just ripped it an jumped inside to eat my sweet corn. I was so disappointed. I kept wrapping more layers, higher around the bed. It did not work. I thought I’d discouraged them but they waited to steal the corn the day before I planned to pick it. I am so disappointed. They actually ate more than my husband and I did. How do our local farmers save their crops?

  9. It happened again. I had my cabbage in a tote with tubing and covered in tulle. They ate and tore the tulle apart and ate my cabbage. I also have lights around my garden to discourage animals. I have a small fence around my garden. I don’t know else to do. Only other thing I can think of is electric fence. My ground is too rocky for a dog kennel and I am too old and crippled to put it up. Any other suggestions?

  10. Hi Robbie…thanks so much for the info on the deal for the totes…I have 8 that I used in a chair garden for the first time, thanks to your instructions of how to…I am so excited about this method of gardening… so I ordered 8 More totes for the next season. I moved to north central Idaho last December and it's been a challenge and learning experience of how to grow. We are soon to get frost, cold and snow! By the way, tulle has been such a blessing! Thank you for all your efforts and dedication to helping someone like me who had the desire, but didn't know how! Patti

  11. Thanks so much for this information Robby! While your video played I was able to purchase a set of the green ones. Great price. These are very handy in so many ways and you teaching us to use these as raised beds is genius! Love your creativity and helpful spirit! Thanks again!

  12. I bought 8 of these totes a couple of months ago and I use one tote on the bottom and a second on top of that to grow in. I do this so to get the height up because of horrible back and neck injuries, disease's and arthritis. I don't have any plastic chairs so this is how I accomplish getting height. I would've never known to garden in totes if not for Robbie! Thank you Ms Robbie!

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