Growing in Non-Food Safe Containers

[Rockporter]

I think growing in my Lowe's gray buckets is fine, there isn't any brining really going on in mine. I use rain water but even if I were to use the well water with salt in it I don't see it as causing much of a concern. There isn't any real brining happening when you just use water with a bit of salt in it because it isn't causing a fermentation process. My buckets are self watering so they hold a reservoir of water. when I empty my buckets at the end of a growing season I feel no difference in the water or see any difference than as if I just watered them. But of course, the human eye can't see some teeny tiny microbes or particles or what not, I still don't have any concern about using the buckets. I went with Lowe's buckets because of their color.