No space? No problem! This week, Ben takes us step by step through the process of making a BIG impact in a small space. Grow an abundant container garden and have fun repurposing old objects. Fear not! You’ll have tasty pickings in no time!
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23 Comments
great video
I put up turned small plastic pots in the bottom of my deep planters as they take up the space and add drainage too.
You didn't mention herbs. I have chives in a large pot that has been there for years!
I haven't tried this myself yet, but I'd like to have a go at growing potatoes in a sturdy cardboard box – no chemical risk, free material if you use one that came in the post, no need for drainage holes and it can be composted once it's done with! As long as it retains the soil I reckon it'd be a winner
Using Bonemeal, wear a mask. Always what I was told by my Boss Mary, years and years ago.
Comfrey…….younger leaves carcinogenic. Use older large leaves only. Comfrey can heal…….bones.
You and self sufficient me are my favorite channels! 😊
I can't afford clay pots, they are way too expensive, I can only spent in plastic, nursing pots.
I covered my dark pots with Reynolds aluminum foil with the shiny part deflecting the sun rays. Hopefully, the planters will not overheat and damage the roots of the veg this way; it gets upwards of 95F here, so I had to try,
I once used an old pig feeder to grow herbs in……. i stuck an umbrella over the top, when it rained, as it was made of iron and had no drainage holes. Apart from that, it was stunning to look at.
Thank you for your inspiring video. I have strawberries growing in the inside tub of an old washing machine (just the tub part). I have two more for planting something else. I also use old twin sized bed springs for trellises for cukes or other vining crops.
I used a county recycling tub to grow potatoes once and the yield was awesome.
I used a laundry hamper two years ago to grow potatoes. Did pretty well!
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Ayy geeza, I got a herb potted garden I just started last week and salad trio I got from lidl, Love it. I'm just trying to get lavender plants back to health any ideas on how I can revive them, snipped the dead bits off slowly coming back. But it's hitting 25 30 degrees where I'm at.
Why should one not use peat?
Very interesting and entertaining, now i would like to see if anything grew? Did you have lots of potatoes in tlyour container? I tried last year, it did not work whatsoever…
Great videos, learning a lot from you. Thank you. An old butler's sink with a variety of flowers, which my husband say is not unusual, an old 1940's style mop bucket with tomatoes and a split 100L water butt, sawn in
2 halves for melons and pumpkin. The latter two grown for first time this year.
I've found that vegetables like tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers growing in 5 gallon pail containers can shed a good downpour of rain out and beyond the rim of their pail, thus keeping their soil relatively dry! This "canopy drip-line" effect can also apply to similar large-leafed vegetables growing up a trellis in a raised bed. The problem occurs whenever the plants' leaves divert the falling rain beyond the limits of the soil, in which they grow .. like pails, planters, raised beds.
A cheap and effective substitute for Perlite is charcoal, which has the advantage that it forms a habitat for soil bacteria. It is a component of Terra Preta.
aldi bags
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