Container Gardening

• by Judi on Apr 28, 2006

We had this garden for the past few years, that we really didn’t start correctly.  First, we didn’t take the sod up, but instead tilled it.  Tilling is fine.  Works great, if you do it right.  We didn’t.  We tilled it once and hoped it would be good enough.  It wasn’t.  So the garden was a constant battle.

This year, I started to clean it up and realized just how much grass was growing under the layers of dead flower and weed stalks… way too much. 

We mowed it down and I’ve tossed my hands up for this year.  Instead, I’m going to get a few container pots going and just grow a few specific things.  Tomatoes sound yummy to start.

Came across backyard granger today.  He shows some of his containers.  What a great, and economic idea.  5 Gallon Containers.  My idea was close, and equally economic.  I am going to use a rubbermaid container (economic because I already have a couple sitting around, empty and begging use).

I wonder if either of these container ideas would work for a composter.

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