Gardening for one season with Free Shipping box, Raised bed. Grow a Vegetable Food Garden EASY CHEAP for a Season in a Cardboard Box Container gardening on chair, table, or bricks. This method may help some to start a garden in a box, no tote or storage container needed. A note here, I still prefer a good old fashion Plastic storage container, tote garden, they will last for years.
Container Gardening
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Now I feel guilty for throwing away that Cherrios cereal box!! LOL
This is perfect for a kids recycling project with their favorite veggies!! Kids could have their own box, with their own selection. And for a privacy fence more permanent food source could plant a cucumber, watermelon etc vine! Have you seen the price of veggies?? Store bought are full of chemicals even in the bargain section!!
Ppl, learn to grow from scraps! All the food is going to other countries, America last…..
Great for elderly project, kids help grandparents make them a box!
I forgot who. But more recent gardener had mentioned to use a heavy duty black bag. More for yard work. They’re 3mm thick. And they are bigger. The bag she’s using seems like a grocery bag. There should be extra to fold and tape at the bottom of the box. Before putting the bag in he put in a half to 1 inch hole in the side. Pull a bit of bag through the whole and cut the tip of the bag that was pulled through which would be the drain hole and would empty away from the box.
And to add. If one plant is thriving and all the other plants aren’t it’s because they are competing for the same amount of nutrients in the soil. It’s just one that’s sucking it up. Should plant those separately once they start doing that. Or plant a veggie that doesn’t need that much nutrient in the soil.
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Good idea recycling cardboard as a container. I'm not sure about the plastic in the garbage bags and masking tape plastic leeching into the dirt as well as the black dye in the plastic, and thus the food you're growing. Straight cardboard can be added to the compost pile to decompose. A landscaper advised me not to use cardboard as a landscape liner under mulch instead of landscape fabric because it would attract termites. I took his advice. So maybe invest in landscape fabric as a liner or recycled fabrics instead of plastic. The plastics all of our food comes packaged in is a carcinogen. They used to use glass jars. God bless you!
I LOVE YOUR IDEAS, Robbie!!! You are ingenious. I know EXACTLY where I’ll put mine. Cannot wait!!!! Thank you dear One!!
GREAT video, great ideas!!!!!
Use a plastic sheet liner marked “5” to line a box, the garbage/trash bags have now changed.
But there’s no room for root growth….right?
Brilliant
Loved that cute lizard. I have used boxes, but would never make such a big deal about it. The sides fold in, make some holes in the bottom, fill with soil, plant your potatoes, etc, then water. It is also great to compost after use.
I really appreciate all your videos. You make it so easy, when many, many make it complicated.
"Don't you dare go in the house" LOL
Oh my GOSH plastic to!!
Thank you for the important safety comments near the end that i didn’t know! Great video but i will look for one what goes in containers
You can do milk crates like this as well. I tried it out so far it's doing fantastic.
This really is great! I'm in a new home and don't know where the sun goes yet, so movable and cheap containers win out. Plus I have a TON of plastic wrap that came with a bed in the box and want to reuse it. I'll be saving all my container and packaging materials now. They all cost something, right?! thank you.
I like how you suggest other ways to complete a task!
But…. you warned earlier NOT to use garbage bags! So?
Great idea
Inspiring!
The flowerpot to hold the box up is such a good idea… I was thinking way too hard about it till you said that haha
8:26 your excitement over gardening is adorable, btw
I AM GOING TO TRY THIS BECAUSE I CANT AFFORD THESE RAISED BED
How about cutting off the box flaps tho use as a brown layer in compost ? I want something to cover a layer of kitchen scraps so they don't stink and attract flies! Am I nuts?
I’m so happy I found you I just love your energy and all of your videos and shares. You know I was thinking watching us if you have a heavy duty yacht yard bag you know the thicker plastic ones depending on the size of the box would it make sense to sit the box inside the bag and then fold the bag over into the box so this way there is protection all the way around? I was thinking you might even be able to sit it on the ground if you pop a fuel drain holes in the bottom and then of course eventually the box would break down a little at a time just a little less maybe. Otherwise I’m thinking if you were to sit it on some kind of platform a large rock or peak gravel or something like that it could help potentially keep it a bit longer. I think I’m gonna try it out see what happens.
I also really like your flower pot idea underneath I was thinking that would be a good location for composting just throw in the scraps inside the flower pot underneath as the good water drains from the planting box above. I can see nestling a few into each other and basically just letting one or the other and the other one or the other that way too would be kind of cool lots of good ideas just watching this. Thank you! 🙂
Thanks for sharing am watching this mid 2022 and find it really helpful 👍 😀