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RE: Container plants (My story)

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One of the most unattractive gardens I've ever done was in containers. I
called it the "Garden O Buckets". When I lived In Florida in a rental house
I felt the landlord would not appreciate my digging up his back yard
although anything I could do would probably be an improvement over the
sandspurs and patchy grass of which the yard consisted. The town I resided
in was in a heavy building boom and therefore there were literally dozens of
houses under construction at any given time. By just driving around the area
I was able to collect at will 5 gallon plastic buckets which had contained
drywall "mud", these buckets were white with usually either bright red or
green lettering advertising the name of product. I mixed up a big batch of
kind of Mel soil on a tarp and after drilling drain holes proceeded to plant
everything from "soup to nuts". I planted several varieties of tomatoes and
lined up the buckets in a row to simulate the "trench" method behind which I
made a "trellis" of thinwall conduit with "farm fence". I probably had in
excess of a hundred of these buckets scattered all over the back yard. In
retrospect I wish I had aligned them in replicas of "squares" or rectangles
for a better semblance of order. I do remember the retired couple next door
looking very worried as my "project" took shape but in the end they
certainly helped me enjoy the bounty. All in all in was one of my better
producing gardens.

Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: ward@cc828817-a.narltn1.nj.home.com
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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 1:16 PM
To: Square Foot Gardening List
Subject: Re: Container plants


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the fluffy bunny wrote:
>
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> Gang:
>
> I noticed a couple of questions on growing in a five gallon bucket...
>
> As far as tomatoes go, they are extremely easy to grow under primitive
> hydroponic conditions...I would suppose cucumbers are also...
>
> Simply fill the bucket with rainwater, throw in a handful of compost, a
> handful of sterile potting soil, and a few pebbles, a few copper pennies
> and you have it...(all of the latter are for trace elements...I don't

I just checked my pockets, the only pennies there were made of
zinc with barely enough copper to give them color.  I guess clad
dimes and quarters will do it, they still have fair copper content
even if it only shows at the edges.
--
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd@home.com    http://members.home.net/wdg3rd/

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