What is the strangest container you've used to grow veggies in? - Page 3

shatbox · January 30, 2015

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Originally Posted by mecktom

Wal-Mart shopping bags...the $2 ones...works great!

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Gerardo · February 18, 2015

Grew fox cherries in the bowl and green zebras in the tank. Toilet out of commission for a while so no ick factor. Drained awesome and plants were real healthy; has lots of sunflowers growing pics to follow

Rfdillon · February 23, 2015

I am going to try my hand at growing in burlap coffee bags this year.

kimsbug · March 9, 2015

Not strange but I use strawberry plastic containers and yogurt cups to start seedlings. I'm buying them anyway and otherwise I used to send them to the recycling bin. My front porch looks funny because it's covered in yogurt containers with seedlings.

bughunter99 · March 17, 2015

I made a potato grow sack out of landscape fabric years ago, before someone went and "invented" those things.

Here is my blog post for proof.
http://gardenmutiny.blogspot.com/200...hat-rocks.html

I also grew tomates in strawberry bags, that I hung off the balcony in an attempt to mimic the topsy turvey concept. They grew great, they did not however grow down.

http://gardenmutiny.blogspot.com/200...to-plan-b.html

Oh and then there was the "Tsunami.". It was a large coldframe where I made the back so you could fill it with a HUGE amount of water. I did this to weigh it down and help provide some insulation. It oddly attracted lots of toads into the coldframe. IT worked great though, until I accidentally punctured it. That is how it got its name.

Goldie321 · April 21, 2015

5 gallon food grade buckets can be gotten for free from some fast food outlets. We have one place that puts them out for hubby whenever they get empties. So now, after over a year, I have stacks out behind our shed. The supermarkets don't usually let you take theirs from their deli/bakery because they recycle them.

Karrr_Luda · April 22, 2015

Plastic kiddy pool, plastic storage bins - I put decomposing wood at the bottom of each and drill a hole or two maybe 3 - 4" from the bottom for drainage, ikea shopping bag, self-watering kitty litter bins 5 galion - great for propagating trees and berries by cuttings - just stick the cuttings in and watch them grow. All is scary looking but works for growing things. Must get rid of the plastic kiddy pool, will replace it with a keyhole shaped hugel bed. I start seedlings in milk / juice cartons that are cut in half, yoghurt sour cream cups, etc.

April 22, 2015	#37
Karrr_Luda Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: USA NJ zone 6B Posts: 228	Plastic kiddy pool, plastic storage bins - I put decomposing wood at the bottom of each and drill a hole or two maybe 3 - 4" from the bottom for drainage, ikea shopping bag, self-watering kitty litter bins 5 galion - great for propagating trees and berries by cuttings - just stick the cuttings in and watch them grow. All is scary looking but works for growing things. Must get rid of the plastic kiddy pool, will replace it with a keyhole shaped hugel bed. I start seedlings in milk / juice cartons that are cut in half, yoghurt sour cream cups, etc. __________________ (:>= Last edited by Karrr_Luda; April 22, 2015 at 12:52 PM.

February 18, 2015	#32
Gerardo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: San Diego-Tijuana Posts: 2,598	Grew fox cherries in the bowl and green zebras in the tank. Toilet out of commission for a while so no ick factor. Drained awesome and plants were real healthy; has lots of sunflowers growing pics to follow

February 23, 2015	#33
Rfdillon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 121	I am going to try my hand at growing in burlap coffee bags this year.

March 9, 2015	#34
kimsbug Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Brooksville, FL Posts: 5	Not strange but I use strawberry plastic containers and yogurt cups to start seedlings. I'm buying them anyway and otherwise I used to send them to the recycling bin. My front porch looks funny because it's covered in yogurt containers with seedlings.

March 17, 2015	#35
bughunter99 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: zone 5 Posts: 821	I made a potato grow sack out of landscape fabric years ago, before someone went and "invented" those things. Here is my blog post for proof. http://gardenmutiny.blogspot.com/200...hat-rocks.html I also grew tomates in strawberry bags, that I hung off the balcony in an attempt to mimic the topsy turvey concept. They grew great, they did not however grow down. http://gardenmutiny.blogspot.com/200...to-plan-b.html Oh and then there was the "Tsunami.". It was a large coldframe where I made the back so you could fill it with a HUGE amount of water. I did this to weigh it down and help provide some insulation. It oddly attracted lots of toads into the coldframe. IT worked great though, until I accidentally punctured it. That is how it got its name.

April 21, 2015	#36
Goldie321 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Florida USA Posts: 116	5 gallon food grade buckets can be gotten for free from some fast food outlets. We have one place that puts them out for hubby whenever they get empties. So now, after over a year, I have stacks out behind our shed. The supermarkets don't usually let you take theirs from their deli/bakery because they recycle them.