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Johnny:
Made it to Lowes yesterday. Got two four packs of Roma tomato plants which is 8 plants. (Read about these and they don't grow higher than 4-5 feet and that's good for me.) I assume they are hybrids since it doesn't say non-hybrid or heirloom. All these plants were outside the wire of the main gardening supplies.

As you know, I don't know jack about what I'm doing, so went inside the wire, found a guy who works there, and said “Think small.” Said I wanted bags of potting soil I could carry since I have no man. I got bags of 16 qt size and I can lift them.

Now, two or so years ago, I read about growing a plant using the bag of potting soil for the container. Punch a few holes in the bottom of bag for drainage, then cut the top side away enough to get your plant into the soil and there is the pot (bag) with plant planted.

I expect to hear growls from you guys about growing a plant that way, but I'm doing it anyway to see if it works. I'll put the bag up on a table so I won't have to bend to the ground for a while. I'll start two of the Romas in one bag and pick the better one after they grow some. I have pots for the other tomato plants and will put them on a table for the time being.

Told the man worker I wanted a thingy with little cups in it to start seeds. He took me to those and the only one there will start 70 seeds. That's overkill size but got it. I'll get the tobacco seeds in there by end of today.

I've got a long planter attached to a brick wall at waist high and would like lettuce and onion planted in that. Didn't get plants for that but need to. Question: Do I get lettuce seed and onion seed or buy the plants?

If I can keep these plants off the ground, I won't have to get the graduated water fed thing and that's a fair amount of money saved.

Question: Can I grow garlic? Is that seed or plant?

On the brighter side, I got my PINK Ruger 22LR rifle and it's on my PINK marble top coffee table. May just leave it there as a conversation piece and to send a message to anyone coming to see me. Only friends are allowed in this house. Everyone else gets killed by my Ruger 38 special when they think that pink rifle is all I have.

I have gotten small cases to hold 50 cartridges of the various weapons I have so I can get access to the extra ammo fast. For the rest of the boxes of ammo, I got two ammo cases, about the size of the military ammo cases except these are heavy duty plastic with pictures of ZOMBIES on the front. I also got moisture control packets to put in those boxes. One box has the large rifle and shotgun ammo in it. The other one has the boxes of handgun and LR 22 ammo in it.

See, I'm protecting my plants outside :o) can't get to the small garden unless one first goes through the gun field. :o)

For lettuce buy seed, for onions buy slips.

I'm cool with the potting soil bag thing. I've seen it done in professional greenhouses. One thing about tomato transplants... plant them deep. They are one of the few plants you won't kill if you bury most of the plant and leave just a few leaves showing. I've found that they put out roots from what used to be stem. And the healtier the root system, the healthier the plant. I normally transplant them so that only 4 leaves are showing.

I'm growing garlic. I got my bulbs from the kid's extended family. I break them into cloves without damaging the cloves and plant pointy side up about an inch deep.

Some grocery garlic is sprayed with chemicals to keep it from sprouting, so those won't work. If you can find some with green tips in the grocery store, use those. Little late for planting garlic, but it can't hurt to try.

/johnny

Now, two or so years ago, I read about growing a plant using the bag of potting soil for the container. Punch a few holes in the bottom of bag for drainage, then cut the top side away enough to get your plant into the soil and there is the pot (bag) with plant planted.

You mean like this:

I don't know about your climate, but I tried to grow plants in the 5 gallon buckets ( a similar technique)and the heat in central Texas caused them to go dormant. The plants grew, but wouldn't produce.

On the brighter side, I got my PINK Ruger 22LR rifle~

Pink? That's just so wrong. ;)

Now, two or so years ago, I read about growing a plant using the bag of potting soil for the container. Punch a few holes in the bottom of bag for drainage, then cut the top side away enough to get your plant into the soil and there is the pot (bag) with plant planted.

I expect to hear growls from you guys about growing a plant that way, but I’m doing it anyway to see if it works
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I read about this too. I think it’s an excellent suggestion. I am planning on using a couple of bags of mushroom compost to grow lettuce in this year.

Lettuce is usually planted as seeds.

Onions sets are often used for slicing onions.

I often plant the garlic I have left from the supermarket. Just seperate the cloves and plant in the fall for early summer harvest. When you order garlic from catalogs, they send you the garlic bulb which you seperate into cloves for planting.