Tucked away in a tiny corner of the garden this yr , was our Any Age , Anywhere Experimental Container Garden .
It was our piffling test to see how our tomato and pepper plants would uprise in simple containers . And the results for certain surprised us !
clear that not everyone has the space , time or power to have a traditional garden – we want to see what we could be get successfully in a non - traditional , but still canonical – container based garden bent - up .
The goal was dewy-eyed . Design an inexpensive and running container garden that anyone , of any years could plant .
It needed to be well-heeled to create , maintain and harvesting – and economise on distance . It also of course had to create a big enough yield to make it all worthwhile .
For the experimentation , we build and trialed three dissimilar sized container boxes . A 5 gallon bucket size , along with a 10 and 15 congius greenhouse sized container .
Of all of the sizing we trialed , I have to say that we were both most impressed with the plants grown in plain honest-to-goodness 5 gallon bucket .
We thought that the larger containers might be more generative with more land . But as it turn out , the 5 congius bucket farm the plant just as well . They were also much comfortable to handle !
We grew three tomato varieties and two peppers in our 5 gallon buckets – and they all performed unbelieveably well .
In fact , our San Marzano , Roma and Jalapeno pepper plant life continue to be three of our heaviest producing plants in the entire garden !
Each of the single tomato plant plant has get closely a bushel of tomatoes over the course of the year . And the jalapeno industrial plant has been been just as productive – with heavy fruiting all season .
The container garden bucket method acting has many other built in advantage as well . The wooden cover not only looks great in the garden , it also serve as a strong anchor for the trellis – which keeps industrial plant growing strong in the toughest of winds .
The grow boxes also well-nigh eliminated weeding , and made the chores of planting , watering and harvest a snap .
It just goes to show you that no matter where you endure – you could grow your own vegetables ! I think we are both looking forward to dilate the trial a little more with the 5 gallon buckets next year !
For more selective information on the trials – you’re able to check out our pageboy give to the entire method acting here : The Any Age Garden
Happy Container Gardening ! – Jim and Mary .
To find our Recipes , DIY and Gardening articles each week , contract up to follow the web log via email in the ripe hand column above , “ Like ” us on Facebook , or stick to us on Twitter . you could also watch out our new book , Growing Simple , now available on Amazon.com .
