Comments on: Containers for a Vegetable Garden

By: You Can Garden In Anything | Small Homestead

You Can Garden In Anything | Small Homestead — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:28:38 +0000

[...] the same lines are these posts from Oh My Aching Debts, containers for vegetable gardening and 12 vegetables you can grow in a pot. Have you grown vegetables in something unusual? Send [...]

By: Natureboy1376

Natureboy1376 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:01:58 +0000

3 Gal Kitty Litter Buckets are great for the garden….

I want to enter for the book!

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:17:28 +0000

Thanks for the great idea … pickle buckets!! I worked at Roy Rogers a long time ago, and fast food restaurants go through alot of pickle buckets!

I’m looking for a fundraiser for our PTA involving vegetable container gardens.

Thanks for the great site.

By: Square Foot Gardening Book Giveaway | Oh My Aching Debts

Square Foot Gardening Book Giveaway | Oh My Aching Debts — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:20:44 +0000

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By: cindys

cindys — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:30:34 +0000

Hi Angie,

I sent this by email as well. You can click on the link in the post that says get updates by email. It will send you a confirmation and you need to click on the link in the email to confirm.

Here are some links to how to make different types of self watering containers. I hope they help.

http://homepage.mac.com/pondma.....iner1.html

http://www.instructables.com/i.....liter-bot/ These will not work for big plants but should for smaller ones like herbs and garlic chives.

There is also this article in Mother Earth News. To see a picture of the waterer and how to make it, click on the image gallery. http://www.motherearthnews.com.....spx?page=4

I hope this helps.

By: Angie Cantrell

Angie Cantrell — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:00:32 +0000

I desperately need to learn how to make my own containers, how to make them self watering, and how to subscribe to your newsletter! Please help me as soon as possible. I am somewhat cyber-challenged, but I am trying to learn. I need to learn more about making those self watering containers. Please help. Thank you for this site and for helping me. God Bless.

Angie

By: Laura Evers

Laura Evers — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:52:40 +0000

Thank you for mentioning Mother Earth News on your Web site. We appreciate the attention.

Laura Evers
Mother Earth News

By: Cindi

Cindi — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:07:02 +0000

Greetings, I come from a long line of flower and vegetable gardening family! My paternal grandparents lived right next door and they had a small fruit orchard, flowers everywhere and always a vegetable garden.
My parents have always gardened. My mom did most of the flower part while my dad love to do two separate vegetable gardens. We had a huge planting of cannas that were so tall, my friends and I used to have a tea party right in the middle of them. My dad is now almost 90 years old and still has flowers, but a vegetable garden every year. My sister and I help him plant and maintain it and we reap a lot of the wonderful harvest. With his age, we need to try something a little different. This book intrigues me. Please enter us in your drawing. Thanks very much…..Cindi (I subscribed to your newsletter)!

By: Jungleswife

Jungleswife — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:37:21 +0000

I love the self watering container idea. I have a large collection of empty kitty litter buckets in the shed that should work quite well. I’ve been (sort of) square foot gardening since the program aired on PBS quite a few years ago. I have some containers in addition to a raised bed. I also grow some herbs mixed among ornamentals in the beds around my front porch.

I just discovered your blog, and like the mix of topics. I subscribed before I noticed you are giving away a book.

By: bouncing betty

bouncing betty — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:07:57 +0000

We all need a dose of spring-bring on the gardening tips. I cleaned out the flower beds yesterday and gave the mulch pile a good turning over with the pitchfork. I can just about see the tops of the daffodils.

The pickle buckets at Mickie D’s are 5 gallon pails. I’d also check and new construction sites for used 5 gallon pails that paint and drywall compound come in. Just clean them really well.