Have you ever wondered how to use fabric grow bags to create the container garden of your dreams? I share 7 container gardening tips for incredible success gardening in grow bags! With these gardening tips, you’ll be able to build a container garden for a fraction of the price of hard plastic containers!
Fabric grow bags are inexpensive, durable, easy to move, easy to store and are often shipped free! Compare that to large nursery containers with high up front costs and expensive shipping due to the large size. I have been growing in grow bags for years, and I want to share my secrets for container gardening success, as well as the one thing you should NEVER use fabric grow bags for!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Fabric Grow Bag Benefits
2:41 Tip #1: Sizing Grow Bag
4:58 Tip #2: Locating Grow Bags
8:17 Tip #3: Grow Bag Longevity
9:47 Grow Bag Brand Comparison
11:16 Tip #4: Potting Soil
12:58 Tip #5: Mulching & Irrigation
14:14 Tip #6: Fertilizing Grow Bags
16:54 Tip #7: Refreshing Containers
18:07 Never Plant This In Grow Bags!
22:09 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Fabric Grow Bag Benefits
2:41 Tip #1: Sizing Grow Bag
4:58 Tip #2: Locating Grow Bags
8:17 Tip #3: Grow Bag Longevity
9:47 Grow Bag Brand Comparison
11:16 Tip #4: Potting Soil
12:58 Tip #5: Mulching & Irrigation
14:14 Tip #6: Fertilizing Grow Bags
16:54 Tip #7: Refreshing Containers
18:07 Never Plant This In Grow Bags!
22:09 Adventures With Dale
They make brown ones too.
The brown ones don’t absorb the heat as much as the brown ones.
about 5 years ago I picked up some of the 12 gallon fabric pots and they worked great until our summer rolled around. I am in Dallas zone 8a and I was unable to keep them properly watered during the heat of the summer.
In all I would recommend for people that live where there is rain most of the year.
Which direction are the tomatoes facing under your sunroom? Coincidentally I have the same setup, but it faces north. I live just west of Wilmington past the bridges.
Have you considered compost tea to fertilize your plants that are in grow bags?
I live in North central Florida where the summers are brutal. The fabric grow bags are fabulous in that the plants really love the aeration but as you pointed out, the soil dries out really fast.
The upside of that is what comes out so readily also goes in as readily. I am currently growing 40 corn plants in 10, 5-gallon fabric bags. I put them in a kiddy pool with an inch or so of water. The corn is doing so very well. Yes, I have to put mosquito dunks and such in the water but I have yet to water the eternally thirsty corn plants com the top and they are not stressed at all.
The downside of that is the bags will probably wear out after a couple two, three years but, like you said, they are not unduly expensive. So, putting the pots in something that can hold an inch or two of water, especially in the summer, is a great idea.
Yes, definitely a good potting mix. I am using 60% peat moss, 40% compost and a bit of lime to even the pH. The corn plants are so happy.
You’re the Best!! Very informative
Yeah for Dale that the cone of shame will be coming off soon! 🙂 I know you will all ne happy to have him back to 100^!
Love your videos! So much great information! Great timing to start planning for 2024🎉
Love your channel, this spring (2023) I put in a garden in a very small area, for the first time in 20 plus years. I put in 3- 3’x4’ raised beds and 50 or more grow bags set on a drip system watering twice a day. We live in 9A, this garden produced an abundance of everything I planted and we are still harvesting many vegetables. I did pull out many vegetables to prep for my fall planting, my seedlings will be ready by the end of the month to be planted. We are looking to move so this is the reason behind the raised bed and grow bags, The moral to this garden story is grow bags WORK AMAZINGLY! I started watching your channel and the grow bags were mentioned and I just wanted to say, thank you!
How do you keep cutworms out of your containers?
Using used mineral tubs are also a great way to container garden. In our area we have cattle ranches and can get them for under $10 each and sometimes free!
Hi there. Can't tell how much I truly appreciate your informative videos. I love that you give examples of what plants go with what sizes of fabric bags. I do love using these but never know what goes in what. This has helped tremendously. I need some advise on when (times of year) and how often to fertilize container fruit trees (not in grow bags)? I have semi-dwarfs: Apple, Little Cado, Fig, and several citrus. I live on the central coast of California. Thank you. Much appreciated.
Hi! I am in zone 6a. I dabbled in growing my own crops, (A newbie newbie) watching your videos help me realize I can do more. Do you have a video on "how to" bulid growing beds? Raised beds? What would you recommend?
You are my go to gardener! This past year was my best after following your advice with the 20-20 -20 fertilizer. I have never watched a video of yours without learning something new. I canned my tomatoes for the first time and I have to say it was because I had so many tomatoes!!! It was fun and exciting to see the fruit grow. Thank you for your guidance and encouragement!
I love my grow bags… I have over a hundred of them. It started when my daughter told me she was getting married and I got a quote from a florist. I have a substantially large greenhouse and we decided to grow her flowers since it was an outdoor wedding. The grow bags made it very convenient to hull the flowers to the venue (for outdoor use, of course). Then I had 50 5 gallon and 50 10 gallon bags to use for other things and crop after crop (annuals) I just get better results. For that "micronutrient/macrobiotic" punch… try making feted swamp water and adding it once a week. Smells terrible but works miracles. I downloaded the Dynamic Accumulator spreadsheet and try to balance out nutrients in the compost swamp water by adding a few different local plants to the mix every week. It's been working really really well.
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I have several acres of land but I prefer grow bags much of the time due to pests or predators. I have to move my plants on occasion so it helps a lot. I also have a large covered deck and move my garden under it during the high heat of summer instead of using shade cloth. I’ve had better success growing both potatoes and sweet potatoes this way. I have to keep the deer and bunnies out of them so the extra height of the grow bags help tremendously. I’ve even grown popcorn in 10 gallon grow bags. I plan to try lots of new crops in grow bags. We are constructing the main garden still with deer fencing so this works well for my purposes right now.
My beit alpha indeterminate cucumbers did amazing in 7 gallon grow bags last season. But I sat the bags in a kiddy pool, so drying out wasn't an issue.
I use walmart bags as planters
U can use the tore bag for lettuce
How much fertilizer pee container
I add worms from my garden to my pots and bags 🪱 and compost 🏍 so there should be some micro-whateveryoucallems