Ideas and How to Container Garden Vegetables Tomatoes, Squash, Kale, and more, from start to finish, Creating a SMALL system to compost kitchen scraps and leaves in a container garden, worm castings, to create large plants and free anytime plant food for all your plants growing in other containers. This small set up can easily be incorporated into almost any size bin, raised bed garden or container, to grow healthy plants creating plant food as close to nature intended. My Hummingbird Friends are here with me, 100’s feed here daily, what a joy and fun!
Container Gardening
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I've been doing this all year thanks to you!
Wow.. look how it’s came along..
Robbie, you really are ingenious to have thought of all of this. This is such an amazing system you’ve devised, and then to generously in such helpful detail share it with us. No one else is growing in compost bins that I can find, have you noticed?… yet it’s such a huge game changer. So grateful for you! Thank you endlessly for sharing all these wonderful how-to details with us!
Now that is how to think outside of the tote. I bet as a kid, you colored outside the lines, didn't you? We need more people like you!🍅🪱👍
We could use you at MIT. This is patent level thinking. Multi-tiered Gravity Fed Compost Enrichment Drip System. Just sayin'
We also need you right where you are. Thank you!
This is cool
What did you use for your tables to put your containers on. Also where did u get the awesome bird feeders?
Do you sterilize your egg shells by baking them? Or do toss them right into the kitchen waste bin?
Hi Robbie! I am a fan of your channel and gardening method. Your composting method is genius. The system seems to inherently save watering needs. But would you mind doing a more in depth video on your watering method and systems- ie, rain barrels/harvesting, frequency of watering, grey water, etc? Thanks for the inspiration!
I love all of your practical gardening, Robbie. Thanks for sharing! I struggle finding earth worms in my yard–but learning from you that they are mostly found in damp soil has helped. It was good to learn in this one that there might be worm eggs under our buckets. I look forward to continuing my gardening with you.
How cool! ♦️♦️♦️ will the Texas 115 temps kill worms in a container?
As an experienced garden I just wanted to let you know, I love your channel, your ideas and your enthusiasm. Becerra to old to learn and I've incorporated several of your ideas…….next one is going to be the in place composter, fantastic idea
Hi Robbie. I wanted to Thank you!!! 💕 This year in my containers, I placed partially finished compost and a bit of chicken or cow manure, and some combo of soil. So not exactly as you've described, but you inspired me to do this. I am so excited with the amazing growth that has happened.. because of the added compost.. this year. The plants are exuberant to say the least! Ty
Oh my. Been gardening for years and I can’t thank you enough for passing on this knowledge 💕 will be making an addition soon!!
I just redid my small compost in place in my tote with Jalapeños and squash, I had a lid and replaced it with a pot with lettuce. put another one with squash and a pot with wandering jew. I love my tower tote garden. Thanks for your videos.
I try to live by this method of efficient tasking, i try to plan two outcomes with every movement, two birds with one stone, so things like doubling the water and reusing plastics etc really resonates with me. I really want to try aquaponics and hydroponics aeroponics, seperately but in the same garden. I want to keep chickens and rabbits, crawfish or talapia, black soldier flies, honey bees, worms…. tower/vertical gardening, i use oak leaves and food scraps for my own compost. There just is no end to what we can learn. And there are so many circles that just add up. And i love saving money, even if its just a drop of water used more efficiently.
Very helpful, that saves lots of water too. I also like your blue long handle water ladle, where I can purchase it ? thank you.
Love, Love, Love all your content!!!
Thank you Robbie! You have such a positive attitude and you show how easy your system can be. It's cheap too!!! Gardeners are so frugal and try to find use from discarded things. I look for those bins at the thrift stores. Now you show how to reuse a plastic coffee container!!!! And it works so well! It is fun to learn from you. I do want to add that I am finding much use in used coffee grounds. A restaurant gives me a bagful on the weekends. The smell deters deer and small animals. I have used coffee grounds as the top layer on potatoes that are planted in a garbage can (no bottom on it). Potatoes are growing well and no deer chewing them – no beetles either. I've mixed coffee grounds into soil for the bins – but not sure if it helps. It's an experiment in growing in bins this year. Already planning next years "Bin Garden" and starting to prepare the bins. I live in northern Wisconsin – so the winter snows are going to come and go. But really – the container gardening is working even here in the north.
I'm missing something. I don't understand this at all. One of the comments was that she didn't have any earthworms. Are you creating an earthworm farm. Is there any point to all this if you have no worms? You filled the container, then what? In another video of yours you said when it gets full, just reach in there, but why? What do you do with it? If you put it in other containers, it will spill over, they already have soil so you can't keep putting more on. The whole thing is confusing.
Thank you for your enthusiasm and can do attitude. I appreciate how simple you can teach these things. I'm getting more hummingbirds each year. Your positive energy generates me to do more. Thank You and Hugs!
Thank you, Robbie, just the info I was looking for. 🥰
good video, genius ideas! I am setting up to grow a couple of dwarf Meyer lemons in containers. citrus is a heavy feeder. This system will work beautifully in my 20 gal containers. one question: when do you introduce the worms and what kind of worms do you use?
Very clever system. Two thumbs up!
just discovered your videos. very cool, but where do the worms come from.
Aloha Robbie,
Thank you so much for sharing with us. I’m learning so much from all of your videos. You’re very motivating, funny, and full of information. I feel I can do whatever you’re sharing. Even bird feeders! We don’t have hummingbirds in Hawaii but we do have so many cute ones. Mahalo (“thank you”)/ L🙂
You are a gold mine of tips 🥰 love your channel! ❤️
Brilliant thank you
Next year I am going to move my tomatoes to be on top of totes they grow it big pots with spring lettuce. Looking for old chairs like your chair garden.
You are a gem!!! I've been following you and I can't get enough of listening to you and watching you at work!!! I can't thank you enough!!
Can you put tulle over the bucket that is below your totes catching excess water to prevent mosquitoes from laying tr eggs in the stagnant water- (maybe clip with clothespins to rim to keep tulle in place)