It’s finally warm enough here in the Panhandle of North Idaho to plant the rest of our vegetables! Today we’ll be demonstrating how to properly plant peppers and tomatoes in five gallon buckets/containers. The process is fairly straightforward, and by following these simple steps we should yield some good tasting fruit this year!
I’ve learned many of the techniques used in today’s video from the YouTube channel ‘Hollis and Nancy’s Homestead.’ Check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/@HollisNancysHomestead
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Chicken manure does pretty good for a garden. My mother-in-law puts her chickens in her garden over fall and winter. I believe that horse manure works the best. You do need to watch what else you put in there though. Horse manure has a lot of nitrogen.
When you cook chicken, you can save the bones to add. Just clean them and bake the bones to dry out. Then just grind them up into a powder and add to the garden. You can do the same with egg shells.
I would get a container of red wigglers worms and add 2 or 3 to each bucket. Worms help break everything down, free worm castings, aerate the soil and mix everything.
2 other things that you can add is lump charcoal and lava rocks. Just grind up and add.
Excellent!
It’s the squirrels that attempt to eat my Jalapeño plants around here. Not so much the habaneros.
You wouldn’t think squirrels would mess with peppers but they will.
Do you do any of your own composting or just use the bagged stuff
use a cement mixer to mix it
I live in a warmer climate. My bucket plants were NOT happy. Trying again on north side of my house this time with bucket plants – sweet potatoes.