Containers 2010 - WHose IN!

I've not used that soil. Anyone else know if that works?

Have not tried the moisture gels.. but have got potted plants with it in and 6 of on half a dozen on the other..its a toss up.. You still have to watch them and water!

I use Mirical-Gro and dont need to water as often with it.
DD uses Shultz with nothing in it.It drains so fast I doubt the water even touches the roots as it rushes by.

I have never had luck with Miracle gro products...espesially potting mixes.

I use a peat based soil... Sun Pro ~ I think it is called now. I have used it for years. I think peat is the primary reason soil holds moisture but you cannot let it dry out or it will be difficult to rehydrate.

Used to use Sun Pro, that was good.

I need to go look at the bag because the name has changed many times. Used to be Sunshine, Sun Pro, Sun Gro... confuses my Sun fried mind. LOL

LOL! Thats TX for ya!

I liked their product.

My hubby has potatoes in containers that he started back in mid-April. We had a very mild spring in Iowa and had more 90+ degree days in May than we did all year in 2009.

I have a few hypertufa that I made - two small ones are planted with calendula (from seeds), one with a variegated nasturium (also from seeds), one with pansies I planted in April (love them!), and one with two miniature conifers and a miniature sempervivum. I have three clay pots with dwarf conifers in them and one more clay pot with zinna seeds started and a tropical hibiscus.

This year, I swore that I'm going to do more container gardens next year. Planting stuff in the ground is so much work! The hypertufa with the nasturiums is quite large, over the summer I'm going to visit Gee Farms in Michigan and hope to find a few miniature conifers to put in there.

Elizabeth

ic, do show us!
I lost most of my taters to the wet this spring. Part of the problem though here is not mother nature...

Some of my containers will just get sunk into the ground when I get "Area 57" here cleaned of weeds here and can get the climbers to the things they will be climbing. The chickens are working on that but I am afraid I will have to bust hump to help them...my ckes got blossome and I noticed my loofas are getting their "tenticles" (tendrils)!

I'll have to take pictures this weekend!

begonia....dont enlarge, its not worth the look.. it losses its pixels

My tc spuds

Wow
gardenchick,please tell me how &what you put in your potato planter...I want to try that. I find I'm more & more planting in containers.

Moisture control MG and MG organic soil, MG fertilizer and spray and grow

Do you layer, make drain holes??

A few rocks in the bottom, 9 drain holes on the bottom and drain 6 drain holes along the lower sides of the tc I also had good seed potatos to start. I used small spuds that I didn't need to cut up.

We have potatoes in kitty litter buckets and they look like yours. My first experience but the ones we planted in raised beds are only about 8-10 inches tall.

I have never tried taters in planters... hmmm ... maybe next time! Awesome there!

Right now I have tomatoes in #1500 nursery cans... I am poking the can in the ground next to my hoophouse and going to use the hoops for a trellis.

Here they are in the garden.. Just sink the can! The plants are about 2 foot tall.. will have to tie them eventually to the fencing.

I set these cukes out intending to dig them in like my tomates, but with all the rain have not had time and the lil boogers latched on to the fence already and are well over 3 feet tall and thicker than shown here! They are gonna have to stay as is. I had intended to dig those DL's out of there too. Owell.. maybe in the fall!

The cukes have lotsa blossoms!

Here the cukes at just two weeks before!

Baby green bell peppers on 6/4/10

The bells on 6/22/10...Im very pleased with their color and the plants are all over a foot! Lotsa bloomers on them! YAY!

Zukes on 6/14/10

Zukes on 6/22/10

All these veggies are in #1500 size nursery cans.

The only ones I am not sinking into the ground are the peppers. I also did banana peppers and had my first nanner of the season!

Some of the plants in one of my baskets

Im not sure what the purple thing is! I got a couple $2 fully planted baskets and WOW! They were packet with goodies

A chenile plant in the basket...

more in the baskets

Im not sure what the peach is... lantana maybe????

And I think the purple is transcantia or something like that, not sure.. the baskets were not labled with each plant in them

Same thing as the peach and the blue above, but in yellow.. what is it???!!!

and whalah, presenting the 2 $2 baskets with all those goodies in them!

#1

this one has a little blue flower in it too that I have no clue as to what it is....

and #2 both similiar yet different and with all the rains we have been having, today, they are looking really awesome compared to these pix!

I grow a lot of my bulbs in cans. I often just set the cans in certain gardens and let them just hang out there all year.. then will divide them eventually like my asiatics and tigers.
Heres one of my orange asiatics in a can...

Ok, some of you been emailing me asking WHERE do I get my pots! LOL!

Im a recycler so I beg from all the local nurseries and greenhouses I know! Most gladly give them to me because otherwise they will be going into their garbage. You just need to sanatize them. I put them in water with bleach. Otherwise I get them wholesale, but its been a long time since I bought.

My local hardware and other nursery is a great place. I always ask my haunts if when they have "freebies" (yano, the plants that they sell sometimes buy one get one or maybe even have a pile that is just plain free!) how many I can take. (Most of the time when they are free, the places want to get rid of the plants because they are heading for the waste bin anyway becaues they have spent their bloom and a lot of these places have no greenhouse worker to primp them and are generally poor on watering them so they are not the greatest plants, but sometimes too you get a good few!) and so you get a plant that maybe you can reserect and a pot.. but always ask. You can get trays and smaller pots too. Ask to see their plant garbage dump!

The ponly problem is you might cart home a bug or disease so quarantine the dumper pots and plants. Inspect them thoroughly.

Um, I use a 300 gallon horse trough and fill it with water and toss the pots. totes and used baskets etc in there with the bleach. I am generous on the bleach.. its cheap, I just slosh in a half gallon of the bleach.. no measureing, just slosh! But watch your clothes then take the hose and rinse.

If your resaling though, watch out for pots that are not so nice.

I like using the dumppots mainly now for bulbs that I just bury in the ground like for dafs or just use them to move stuff around our gardens...I have a huge garden.. underwater now, but the dayliles are blooming through the water and the weeds and when I dig them up to divide, the nursery cans are oh so grand! Then I line them out in the pots in the new garden areas and plant at my leasure. I also do veggies like duh as you can see above!


On daffs I do not store the bulbs seperately. I pot them in cans poke them in the ground can and all and forget them until they are about ready to bust the pot in the ground and need dividing, then I yank the pot out of the ground and just put field dirt in with the divided bulbs in more cans when dividing time comes. On gallon pots you need to put about an inch of dirt in then the bulbs then fill the can keeping the bulbs as deep in the pot as possible. You can divide daf bulbs in the spring after a bloom in wich case you leave the leaves on or in the fall when the leaves are not showing. Oh so easy then to find them in the garden, just look for the can!

I always end up wit pots of daffs laying around all summer before I get to finally planting them.

That reminds me, I got a pile of daff bulbs that I forgot about in my GPS.. eeks! They probably are dehydrated and not good.. I best get to them! Pray they are still good so I can pot them!

Doing the can thind, the cans keeps the critters from digging around them too and killing them.

Cmon over to the GPS 10 thread!

Thanks for asking about my pot pile!

Oops, forgot to put the GPS 10 link.. here ya go!

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1103915/

Ok, back to containers...

This tall asiatic is in a pot! Shes portable... but Ihave not moved her for years so she has latched on to this place. Usually happens eventually if I forget to dig in a can!

I especialluy like sticking the asiatics cans in with the hostas!

I wished I would have containerized this tigerlily.. she is gonna be a bear to dig out. That bulb is almost 10 years old! Ought to be the size of a melon and shes over 5 foot tall!

IN a can!

WISHED it was in a can...

canned...