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Trying Container Gardening This Year
- Thread starter napp
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Hows the wood holding up to the water in the dirt.
My brother in law made one out of the stair stingers you can buy at Home depot but it was pressure treated. He used his for herbs.
You can not see but there is a plastic barrier @ 3/4 up the side with weep holes at the bottom.
DO NOT place your green bell peppers near your "hot" peppers, they will cross-pollinate and you will get "warm" bell peppers. You have been warned.
Try straw bales for a container. Tomatoes will love it, and you get nice clean disease free tomatoes. Will work with any bush plant, squash peppers even watermelon.
End of the season, bale goes into compost.
End of the season, bale goes into compost.
We do our tomatoes on 5 gallon buckets but upside down, trying to keep a tomatoe plant staked up and not tipping over gets to be a pain, hang that sucker upside down and forget about them. Also add evaporated milk or eggs shells to the soil.
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I've had really poor luck with tomatoes when not in the ground. Can't figure it out. In for what's hopefully a success story in a couple months. 
I’ve had luck with potting soil, it will retain more moisture than plain old gardening soil, try hanging them upside down you can’t lose that way
Update...tomorrow will be three weeks in the containers. I have only added water to the container reservoirs one time since planting...at two weeks. All plants look healthy; and show obvious growth. The Patio Tomato plant has a marble sized tomato; and the Jalapeno Pepper plant is budding with a couple of blooms.
