Interesting Container Gardening Possibilities

With snow still on the ground over where I'm at, I find I'm really impatient about having to wait to start my container gardening. To ease the wait, I'm surfing and watching videos, how-to clips on gardening with various containers.

Actually, I thought this would help me calm down about all this but, instead, I am more determined to start gardening by this weekend - INSIDE - without waiting for Mother Nature to send a warm breath my way...

The following video shows some creative and amazing gardening in all sorts of containers from old crates and re-used furniture - to (not very large!) styro-foam take-out containers! Wow, this video shows that you can pretty much use ANYTHING, fill it with soil and seeds, then grow stuff!



I watched a few other videos but, honestly, some of the avid survivalist gardeners and their methods of planting and setting up containers seems convoluted and complicated!

I'm definitely going for "minimalist" and am going to be working to save money, so I'll keep watching all the how-to videos that I can on this subject - but I can't see how I'm going to manage to gather the kind of advanced tools and materials some people are using for their container gardens.

I have a bunch of kitty litter buckets and those keep on showing up as I have a feline friend at home, so they'll have to do to start with. No plastic pipes or any other kinds of pipes are available to me and I'm going to refuse to spend money on any but the most basic of tools and materials. Call me "CHEAP-O" but remember that I live on a below-poverty-level income.

...I suppose I'll just have to be as creative as possible with all of this.

If you've watched the video from this post, you'll see why I might be saying I'll refuse to buy anything I don't need to... WOW, plastic juice/water bottles have been used for gardening in this video. This project is going to let me get rid of a bunch of stuff I've been calling "absolute junk" around the house and put it to good use... There will be no running to the hardware store or department store to ask for best prices on buckets! In the above vid - jars, bottles, styro-foam take out containers, burlap sacks, cups, milk jugs - you name it... plants are growing in all of those things. Tomato, Bok Choy, Onions, Lettuce, Basil, Garlic and other herbs... Re-use, Re-cycle, remarkable gardening!

Enjoy the vid - I hope other people decide to start doing this, too!

moi~