See More Garden Goodies: http://www.WisconsinGarden.com – – – We’re replacing our old containers for our new container garden along our Westside walkway. We found some new heavy duty plastic containers at one of our local food stores. We will amend the soil with half of the old potting soil, and the other half mixed with new potting soil, compost, top soil and perlite. Each container will be a seed starter consisting of day lilies and flowers. We still have another container we’ll be using for some mystery seeds. We will also be cutting the bottoms out of the old containers, sinking them into the ground, and using them for planting new yellow raspberries, blueberries and grapes in an effort to control root expansion.
Container Gardening
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That is such a great idea to use the old soil because of the microbes in there. It would be a shame to see that get thrown out.
Always enjoy your videos and your lovely interaction with your husband.
…Dirt 🙂
I always say soil lol
You guys do a very good job with each other
[Soil]……….A few years ago I bought a box of seeds with a couple hundred packs of flower and veg. seeds in it at a yard sale for 1dollar,the dates on the packs were mid.70s..Over 40yrs old and Most sprouted, and i'm still planting them…. what luck is that.
dirt and soil love to see how happy you both are God bless you both.
Lynn…why don't you use peatmoss in your plantings…in ground and potting?….I always use peat …..plants love it…loads of organic matter…
Seeds in the refrigerator …canning jar
with powdered milk in the bottom….will last for years….
Bucket or Pot??
👍👍👍🌹🌷🌺 soil;D
It's dirt when you drag it into you house on your shoes but in the garden it is soil.
It's dirt when it's on the floor, soil when it doesn't come out in the wash….
it looks like your going to have some pretty flowers when thay come up I hope you can keep us up to date with there progress
Where I grew up in MN we had,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, "DIRT"! Did I mention in my part of MN it is "DIRT" LOL
SOIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I used to have blueberries growing in containers, but a cold snap back in Feb '06 or '07 killed them dead. Plants in containers are much more susceptible to damage from very cold weather because the roots are above ground.
Just an opinion, but some peat moss added to that "top soil" would greatly increase the CEC ratio, as well as the oxygen available to the roots and beneficial microbes.
Soil 🙂
I say dirt!