RE: Containers


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.
Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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I have gotten some " stand alone " shelving to use as planter stands. I have
been thinking about the soil mix. I like the idea of "semi-hydroponics". I
have been reading about hydroponics for some time.
Questions:
Any ideas on 12" to 16" planters with drain cocks?
How much heavier then water is sand?
Are there any soil substitutes which are just a little heavier then water
but lighter then sand?

This vegetable growing is hard mental effort.

F. Drew Leyda
leyda@valunet.com
Columbiana Co. Ohio
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