#Container #Garden #DIY We built a back-friendly garden from storage containers and wood. The storage containers had a ledge around the side and hang nicely on the wood platform. No bending over to weed!
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I always joke that my apocalypse plan is early departure. But I’ve veggie gardened for years and love having fresh produce right in the back yard.
What a great idea! I just used old huge drawers from a dresser to add containers to my garden👍I love your raised ones though ❤
Yay! I’m excited for you guys and for us to witness this new adventure. What a great experience for The Producer too!
Those boxes are awesome Hoss Tools on line have a great variety of seeds and they will let you know what grows best in your area
Did he say mitigate bees?
Great usage for those containers. We stocked up on them from Costco where they are regularly on sale for $9. Are you using the lids at all for the frosty nights?
I drilled drainage olds in the bottom and low sides to allow drainage from raining so hard it filled the container with water.. .. it helped alot.
Great to learn gardening before you NEED the option
Are you going to work with worms?
Cool! I'm doing a similar thing, because I rent too! I wish I could lift mine up. Maybe some day. I will look forward to watching how your garden comes out!
We are doing our first garden this year too! We have a bunch of starts inside, and will transfer them outside in a week or two. best of luck to you and me!
I’m so excited for you and eager to see the progress. I was finally able to get something planted this morning. Love your enthusiasm ❤️❤️
We've done this successfully for herbs and salad greens. This year we decided to expand and we're taking delivery of a greenhouse Thursday! Raised beds also keep rabbits from pilfering.
Best part of elevated beds like this is slug issue almost non-existent.
Good luck w/your garden. You can container grow potatoes too, but use a Rubbermaid type trash can, cut a "door" in botton to check growth (zip ties make great hinges) and harvest. If potatoes try to grow to close to top, cover with hay/straw.
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I use the same company for most of my plants but I also save my seeds from the plants I planted
Let at least some of each variety go to seed and save your own supply:)
I like the self pruning grow bags. I moved trees I had in them when I moved from my apartment to my house. I have allot of seeds as well arugula is easy to grow. I wish I liked it. I'm growing mostly green beans. My neighbors grow zucchini tomatoes and peppers. She says we can pool our crops and can. Try some edible flowers.
whoa… where are you that you saw Elk?? love the intro music, I think it's an old irish melody.
Good luck with the garden!! My sister has started a box garden.. I'll ask her what she had to do and what she's growing…
Just finished planting potato’s in 5 gallon buckets. Did it last year and had great success. I do primarily raised beds (lick tubs, raised bed and 5 gallon buckets) and love them.
Yup just jump in and go for it.
I've grown in 5gal buckets on a porch, pots, etc.
I would stagger the starting of seeds so the last started are producing as the first ones are done for the season. But looks like a great start.
Some stuff like herbs can be done on the counter tops.
Gonna be an awesome learning experience, especially for the little one.
(Almost) Everything I know about gardening I learned from YouTube.
1. Be very careful with any animal manure. There is a chemical called Grazon that is spread on pastures. It kills the weeds and leaves the grass. But when livestock eats the grass, they ingest the herbicide. It passes right through them . . . into their manure. And it persists at least a year. One clod of tainted manure and it can wreck your garden and trees. I had a great source of horse barn sweepings, which is veggie gold. But I got that one clod, and I had to clean out a whole bed and replace the soil. Do you know if the hay that fed the horses came from a field sprayed with Grazon? How would you know? It's a shame, a real shame.
2. Squirrels can dig under your plants and steal veggies. They will.
3. Look up roofing tin garden beds. They are inexpensive, and you can sit on the edge and work. Lots of soil to fill, but use a 50/50 mix of compost and soil.
4. You have space. If you can get some chickens (and protect them) and then you let them rampage through all your food waste, and any other you can gather (know a coffee shop owner? Used grounds make great compost!). The result will be very very good fertilizer with zero seeds in it. There's also eggs.
5. You can never make enough compost.
6. If a municipality near you does food waste recycling, find out where to get the compost. It is nearly as good as horse barn sweepings.
7. A potato fresh out of the garden is like nothing you've ever tasted.
8. I like your innovative containers!
Glad you are using heirloom seeds! There's a ton of variety out there with heirlooms, and if you like what you've got, you can harvest your own seeds for replanting the next year.
I own my home near a small city area, and grow stuff in my garden. We unfortunately have a huge rat problem in the neighborhood. They often borrow into stuff they shouldn't. This system looks like a great way to prevent rats from accessing the bins with slight modifications 👌
do you have any livestock? i'm trying to get a quality milk cow
Sweet! I have a small garden every year. Containers do make growing some things easier to care for. In trying grow bags for potatos this year since I understand they're going to be in short supply.
Buy Heirloom seeds! You save them from this year's crop for next year, that way you'll always have seeds.
I have a family of wild rabbits I enjoy knowing they're safe on my property so I bought so motion activated sirens that I bought to scare off any one who got it in their heads to steal my marijuana plants ( it's legal to grow in Vermont) but will work on rabbits too.
Spinach seeds are finicky to germinate, but since your temps are still cool, you should have success. But don’t be sad or discouraged if they don’t perform as well as the arugula. Looking forward to watching your garden progress!
Try 5-gallon buckets for potatoes. There’s a couple of good vids out there. A suggestion is to put screen at the bottom, over drainage holes to prevent things from crawling in thru the dirt and prevent dirt loss. Btw…Baker Creek seeds rock! Wonderful company.
liked and subscribed. i love it. i want to do something similar! great inspo!
An upgrade to the containers maybe to modify them to be self watering. Using a small plastic grate as well as a drain that is elevated so that there is a resivor of water that the roots can get to. It allows for longer periods between watering. And helps to regulat moisture. Good job guys.
Rotate in some bush beans in the beds where you're growing leafy greens. Plant some nasturtium wherever you're growing things that need to be pollinated. If the soil gets pests, cycle in a round of marigolds.
I’m with you exploring my own container gardening adventure on my deck. I’m trying out planing from seeds to replanting starters. I’ve got peppers, a tomato plant, an eggplant, basil, parsley and dill that I replanted from smaller plants- not dead yet! I also tried some seeds: carrots, green beans and peppers. My peppers never took from seeds and only a few of my green beans have sprouted this week. Lots of carrot sprouts. Fingers crossed!
Oh easy peasy suggestion, replant the end of your green onion. Simplest thing to ( re) grow.
Wow that’s slick alright. I’m on my own so I managed to get pallets and have put the bins on top of those. Also have some raised beds. Definitely need some fruit trees. Putting in an asparagus patch too.
It’s better to just sprinkle seeds for lettuces on top and just lightly sprinkle some really light potting mix on top. I found that the same method with onion seeds only turns into a mess later with thinning (though it does give you green onions too). I’m more deliberate with my seeds now that I’m assuming they’ll be scarce. Assume only 50% germination rates too. Lots of excellent companies ran out of seeds last year and this year’s are worse still so poorer quality seeds made it into packets. Big lesson for me as a newbie last year was water every other week with some Fish Emulsion mixed into the water. It guaranteed fertility/high yields.
A good resource is The Grow Network with Marjorie Wildcraft. We need to get our act together as well. Thank you for the motivation and encouragement! You can do it!
YouTube channel – Epic Gardening – is a great resource. Also, Self Sufficient Me, MIGardener and mhpgardener (who had the most insane tomato plant you will ever see.) I've learned a lot from all of them.
Please keep documenting this!! I have my first container garden going now. I'm following some channels of established gardeners already but it would be really fun to follow along someone in a similar boat.
Canadian prepper, has some good videos on choosing seeds for different areas. It definitely will be wonderful watching your journey!
Whats the cloth material that you put down to prevent the soil going the the hole
Sprinklers hooked up to a motion detector will keep deers from your garden.