Re: Containers

On Sun 28 Feb, Meconella@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/23/99 7:13:17 AM Pacific Standard Time, leyda@valunet.com
> writes:
> 
> << I am physically challenged and I want to do some container gardening. I
> need
>  containers that are about 3 feet high. Any suggestions? Also what would be a
>  good soil mix for vegetables?
>   >>
> 

How about my 'fisbox' gardening idea. The boxes cost nothing. You still
have the problem of any containers having to be put on something to give
the height, I have no easy and cheap solution for that. I think that if
you have containers that are tall in themselves you will have too much
dead space to fill up which is expensive and will go stale. ATM we use
pallets on precast concrete building blocks, not ideal but low cost and
can be dismantled easily. For longer term use I would mix the compost
with up to half gritty sand, then weak liquid feed, a bit like true
hydroponics. I have noticed that where building sand and the like are
left on e.g.concrete you get plants and weeds colonising it, soon it
turns to a form of soil as the plants die, so you don't need much in the
way of nutrients to build up a soil-like medium.

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Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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