Just checking in Granny to let you know I have started my Obama garden. As I have explained before, we have a big deer problem and I don’t think I can use my regular garden plot anymore. So my efforts to outsmart them include: planting potatoes in plastic garden cans and keeping them near the back porch. I think I’ll try some of those hanging baskets thingies for tomatoes. Anyone had any luck with those? When I went to the feed store to get my potatoes, the lady told me they had been simply run over with requests for them this year. Wonder why? LOL
I think I’ll try some of those hanging baskets thingies for tomatoes. <<<
Now I know why you kept floating in and out of my mind for much of the day, glad you checked in, for I was going to write anyway.
I posted, [I think] within the last couple days a good article on tomatoes in pots.
Yes, they will grow in large pots, but to get that large, it will be heavy, so check the roof for support .
I would just use a regular bucket and grow the old fashioned cherry tomatoes, they will take the changes better than the large ones do, with less problems and live 2 years if you bring them in in the winter.
For all the problems you are having to grow a garden, you should start thinking about a greenhouse, then you would be able to grow all year and no deer.
Anything that you can get holes in for drainage will work for a pot, I saw photos last year of men’s Levi’s, filled with potting mix, hanging in a tree, with plants growing in them.
If I were using the levi’s, it would be fun to turn them into an all over planter, like a strawberry jar/pot, You could sew the bottom closed, or just use a good wire and cinch it tight.
My sister drives me nuts, wanting to haul my old holey pots and pans that I have collected from the dumps of the west, first as chicken feeders and when they get holes, they are flower pots.
I don’t like milk and pop bottles for growing, some how it seems that the roots like the dark, that is unless they are an orchid and some of them want the roots exposed.
In the house, dishpans with holes work for lettuce and greens, the tomatoes and peppers will want at least a foot deep pot of soil.
Glad you had fun today....