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When it comes to finding space to grow your own fruits and vegetables it pays to look beyond the obvious.
There are many quirky places to raise your homegrown produce – and more than a few will raise an eyebrow or two!
In this short video we’ll share some of the weird and totally wonderful places you could be growing your own.
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I often see tires recommended for growing vegetables, but I have deep concerns about chemicals leeching from the tires into the soil. What are your thoughts on this?
I had never heard of grow bags until seeing all these UK gardeners on Instagram. Still seems weird because they are usually on the ground, but much easier and more frugal than buying pots.
An excellent video
I love these videos. I either learn something I didn't know or have my own practices validated.
The useful lifespan of wooden containers, (and metal ones, too) can be extended by painting the inside with a durable, exterior paint. Painting slows the rotting process in wood, and helps prevent rust in metal. In the case of wooden containers, painting will also help prevent moisture from leaching through the wood, reducing the need for watering.
There is one thumbs down; Scrooge must be watching.
Growing food in an old pot is fitting. (Secure the pot, drill. Tap an indent with a nail and make an x with tape if the bit wanders, be ready for the bit to punch through, abrade sharp edges, cleanup metal shavings).
fantastic.! Expecting from you a video presentation of weird vertical garden of vegetables pattern too! thank you.
I plant tomatoes in empty 5 gallon cat litter buckets into which we still several holes for drainage. It repurposes the buckets and provides just about a perfect amount of space for a tomato to thrive.
Awesome video! You cracked me up with that 'sexy pot' at the start – that was so funny! I grow lettuce, rucola, herbs and some cherry tomatoes in my very tiny balcony, inside 35cm x 35cm x 35cm brown plastic pots. They're all in a row, so they look pretty. My neighbours enjoy looking at what I'm growing, and ask me about what is this and that. I also have two semi circle pots, one on each side of the balcony. I chose sturdy, brown plastic pots. I water them by plugging a spray hose to my kitchen sink. I still have 1 foot wide balcony space to walk in, so I can sow, plant or simply enjoy the balcony. As always, thank you for your ideas – keep up the great work! 🙂
Please no nitrogen pellets in soil. It’s unnecessary. Plant nitrogen fixers to grow sustainably. The white pellets in soil run off into water systems and cause algal blooms as well as toxic water for communities. Supplement container plants with organic matter/compost like leaves, grass clippings, or food waste instead.
Front gardens for food? The idea of growing your own is to eat cleaner food, isn't it? A front garden with no traffic fumes and particulates? No-one parking nearby? No passing pedestrians with their casual habits (litter and body wastes)? I don't think that is a good idea. Perhaps it would be safe in some front gardens, but not in front of any of the places I have lived. Also my flowers get nicked from the front, would the food plants be ignored? Perhaps I should move to the country to avoid all this? But then, hopefully, I would have enough garden space behind my home.
This is the second year I'm growing in raised beds on top of a concrete 1/2 basketball court, with amazing success!
I've got tomatoes growing out the bottom of buckets suspended from my front awning. I've got flowers growing out of an old tire in my front yard, never edibles though! I don't even want to the think about the chemicals leeching into potatoes grown inside a tire!
You're a goddamn bloody brit, innit?
I have an OGarden and an iHarvest – both are indoor gardens. Long harsh winters where I live so it is pretty cool eating fresh salad from my indoor garden at the end of January. 🙂
Livestock corrals-
i dont have alot of space so i recycle large plastic bottles (usually juice, milk and oil bottles) and hang them vertically. some are growing upside down, some right way up, and some have been cut in a way that allowed me to plant inside the bottles so the plants can create their own little eco system… less maintenance lol