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02-23-2011, 10:31 AM #1Registered User
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Great link for cheap container gardening ideas
I found this website through a link on a gardening forum yesterday. I think these kids are fabulous! They have some awesome ideas and a fantastic goal. I bought a couple of reusable shopping bags at Lowe's last night to use as grow bags for fingerling potatoes. I think their grow buckets and automated water system are great, too. Anyway, I hope that this is useful for someone else.
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Wow, interesting ideas! Great link. Thanks for sharing.
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Originally Posted by Debbie-cat
Wow, interesting ideas! Great link. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome! It staggers me that these kids are in high school and are thinking on such global terms.
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Very Cool, thanks. I love seeing how others use theirs, I have friends in Chicago that do that on a roof. I make modified earth boxes, which some consider these as well but I do mine with square containers. Thanks again.
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Thanks.........love the 'caffeine' and 'no caffeine' editions......cute.
It also kicked in the creative mind to see how I could use some of it in my own gardening.........interesting reading ---THANKS.
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Looks like a great site, I've bookmarked it for later. Thank you.
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bookmarked it too. I am very interested in starting to grow some of our own veggies this year. Just don't know what method I will be using. Something like this or raised beds.
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Love this idea - mahalo will be pursuing it myself!!
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After checking this out we are going to try this, the savings on water is amazing, and I have alot of containers, Thanks again!
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WOW the answer to my problems That is a sure fire way to not have blight and I can expand.... I have a source for free buckets and some clay pots.
AND the water system will work for my son (who I will get the buckets from). He forgets to water.Meg
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great idea! I think I am going to show my son this and see if he would like to do this as an "experiment" on his own. It is a great science lesson for kids. Thanks for the link!
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I have bookmarked this too,great idea,will be trying it this year.Thanks for the link
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Very interesting, I've bookmarked it, will read later. Thanks for the link.
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Would love to do this one day - hmmm - who do I know who has these talents?
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Absolutely fantastic! Thanks for sharing, I will be saving the link.
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