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I live in a small rural town in Missouri. Even though there are many farms around and the houses are spaced far apart, and I have a fairly large yard, I do not have the physical strength to put in a regular garden.
So in doing some research, I decided to try container gardening. It seems to work well if you can find the right things to grow. I actually found "container tomato" plants at Walmart for 3.00. I bought two of them, and planted one in a regular large flower pot, and put the other in upside down in a hanging pot. Both plants are doing extraordinarily well.
I bought round ice buckets at Walmart. they aren' the kind you put ice in and set on your bar. These are round bins that you put ice in for picnics or other outside events. They are about three to four feet wide and at least eight to twelve inches deep. I planted a cucumber and pepper plant in one with a marigold plant ( because my sister says vegetable plants like flowering plants near them) and a squash plant and spinach plants in the other.
I used a mixture of organic and miracle grow potting soil and all of these plants are thriving.
I also have several house plants that go outside every year. They sit in the living room window (because its the largest in the house) until its time to go outside. Now they sit on the porch where the sun can get to them and they are doing excellent.
I took two long, upright speaker boxes that Rich gave me, took the back off, took the insides out, poked drain holes in the bottom and filled them with soil. I then took Miracle grow and a generic soil and filled them, then planted some small flowering plants that I bought at Walmart, set them under the stairwell to the apartment upstairs so they get the morning sun, and they are growing great. The speakers look like expensive planters.
By the way, the vegetable containers sit under this stair well too...so you can do container gardening without a lot of effort, and you can find so many things to grow your plants in. Check out some of the yard sales in your area, you will find a lot of ideas there, at rummage sales and at thrift stores. We have even found some things sitting on the curb on garbage days that work well as containers for container gardening. |
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