Okay it was time for an update. The tomatoes have gone crazy, had to put my ultomato stands up so they wouldn’t buckle over. I let them dry out this week to see if I can get the roots deeper in the bucket. Not sure how deep the roots are so I stressed them a little to try to stimulate the roots to go deeper. Not sure if that was the right thing but sounded good. lol
Container Gardening
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@TheJebus88 Thanks, just put it up.
@minbound Thanks, it makes me chuckle when I look at these things. I can't believe how well they have done. I'm not sure if growth and maturity is any different than those planted at the same time in a regular garden. I think it is though.
i had about 10 tomatoes seedings started a week before your first video and they have all but four died and they are only six inches high not yet to go outside yet
excellent ,, yes 8 hrs minimum for those guys
Wow they are doing great, I just started my container garden today.. hope stuff grows well!
@Iridium242 I'm pretty amazed at how well they grow in those buckets. Just add water 1x/ week probably and they just do their thing.
Are you pinching out the suckers between the branches on those before they overgrow the area? LOL, those are doing good. 2 1/2 feet of snow Friday, the snow plow guy got stuck trying to plow me out. I'm jealous!
@Rhiahl for the most part I am. Just cleared out several of the low hangers and the such. Suckers coming up from the base on a couple of them. No jealous of your snow! lol… High 80's here.
You have a pretty big yard. Why are you fooling around with balcony gardening techniques? Humans need several hundred pounds of food a year and more variety than tomatoes, peppers, and a couple herbs.
Do you plan on making gardening one of your preps? I would like to see how you convert what you learn from your buckets to a larger scale garden.
Good question! I wasn't sure I was going to be in this location through the summer so I didn't go to the expense and aggrevation of putting in a full garden only to leave it to the next person. Now I know I'll be here so I'm going to do that soon, at least get it ready for a fall garden. The buckets/containers started off as just a cool experiment/project to try. Thanks for the comment!