~boing~ I should have had a V-8. Why didn't I think of that?!? LOL Good thing I posted that question!
I'm about 50 miles from a WalMart so I will have to wait until I make it to town to get some of that Pro-mix. But, I will keep it in mind.
I am like you with the water bottles. The first time I saw those wall-o-water ads I figured I could rig something up and have been saving almost ALL containers since then. And since we are in an area where we are either feast or famine on rainfall I actually go out in the rain sometimes and fill up empty bottles from overflowing rain barrels so as not to let the barrels overflow and to save as much rainwater as possible.
Last year those water bottles saved my tomatoes and peppers when we had a late freeze. I can't explain it but I'm one of those people who always think I can get by with putting out my plants a little too early. Most years my gallon milk jugs of hot water actually save the plants though. When I know we are having a really cold night I will actually fill them with very hot tap water around dusk so they'll keep that heat as long as possible. And like WCG posted a moment ago, it seems that if we have those cold nights in spring they are typically followed by a warm day so no harm done. So, of course, each year I end up putting things out early... LOL
It’s important to post questions here as well as your knowledge. Granny jumps on the questions and gets answers for us. LOL she’s like a living encyclopedia!
Yes, I too am a hurry up and plant it.
Try to remember that the warm growing plants want the soil at 50 degrees........or LOL, a hot water bottle to make it through the night.
When I still used the wood stove, I was building a wall of water bottles around it, my thought being that they would heat and release it later, and I would have the water for the animals and garden if hard time hit, or the water company broke down as it does at times.
I have to be careful what I do, as any old gal, is suspected of being senile.....but I am building a platform of water in front of the sliding glass doors.
I started filling my large coffee cans that I can’t bear to toss out and they are all plastic now, so won’t rust.
My pipes are not buried deep enough and freeze some years, so I leave the faucets on during the freezing weather, it has always bothered me to waste all that water, so I started filling the coffee cans.
They will make a nice base for plants to set on.
And can be dumped, if the cans are needed to store beans, grains, etc.