I have some plastic containers that are: 8" tall, 15" diameter at the bottom and 19" diameter at the top. Therefore they hold a good amount of dirt. The question is will the depth be enough for 1st year brugs?
Your opinion would be appreciated.
Judy
Trying To Get Potted Up
Here is a picture of one that I used to protect the hardwood floor this winter
They will be fine, Judy. You might have to water a couple of times a day or more, depending on whether they are in full sun or not, but the biggest problem will be keeping the planters upright. It doesn't really matter what size the pot is. Brugs are so big and heavy with leaves that a good wind will take them over. I've even staked some of mine to find them go over in a storm anyway.
And we're located on a windy raised area...... so containers about the size of half plastic barrels would probably not blow over. Then there is a problem with being able to move them when the need arises.
I move all my really big pots by looping a long dog lead around them then bringing the snap end back through the handle so I just have one end to pull. If they are in the house I put a throw rug fluffy side down under the pot and drag it, on the porch I don't bother with the rug. That works really well but plastic barrels would not have the lip on them which often times is where the lead rests.
Just thinking out loud.
Judy
I use a two wheel dolly. I can't deal with them any other way.
Brugie, Oops, I'm in trouble, I can't handle a dolly they are too heavy for me.
Gosh, my dolly is pretty light weight. My biggest problem is getting the whole thing tipped back so the pot doesn't fall off the front. Once I get it on the dolly, we can whiz right across the yard with no problems. I could never drag my pots across my bumpy yard. LOL!
I couldn't garden without my dolly or breed Goldens - actually, I do just about everything I do with a dolly and mine is light and very easy to handle...I have flagstones in lots of places, so I cannot drag stuff nearly as easily as using the dolly...
Just kind of curious SherryLike, but what do you do with the dolly to breed Goldens? I am trying to picture this in my mind and am coming up with some pretty weird things. LOL
Jeanette
uhhhh, breeding Goldens... big dogs... big appetites... dolly may come in handy for the stool patrol.
I used my dolly to move the 25g roses last fall amongh other things. It's 'day job' is to have one of those 25g tubs bungi strapped and a yard waste bag stands nicely in it.
Judy, I also have a very light weight dolly that I use to move pots. It is small and easy for me to handle and it was not very expensive. I also use it to move bags of mulch and soil.
Hahahaha, Jeanette, I'll bet you did wonder, lol. I breed and show Goldens. When we move into a show site to setup, we take grooming tables, crates, Xpens, tack boxes, very long, heavy extension cords, fans, blow dryers, mats for the floor, our own water from home, and lots more essential stuff. At home, I use the dolly to take the whelping box to where ever I plan to whelp the babies, and Xpens to use when they are a couple of weeks old. My whelping box is 25 years old and heavy to move. I did use kibble when I first started and I did move it via dolly. Now, I feed raw, so I have my meats and raw bones delivered about once every 2-3 months and I keep it in my freezer. I don't plan any litters or showing in the near future, so my dolly work is considerably less, but just yesterday, I moved lawn chairs back outside, flagstone and mower gas. Once you rely on a dolly, you will never be without one. I like my 2nd largest dolly, which is lightweight, but will carry LOTS of weight, and really saves my back!! I carry all my pots by dolly. If you buy a dolly, don't get one that is too little or too big. Medium is the one I use for just about everything. Now, I've got to go grab that dolly and get to work!!
The last thing I need it to have Brugs being blown over by the wind.......
I drove 3 hours round trip today looking for pots, 25 gal minimum. WOW I found a few that might have been 20 gallons for much more money than I was willing to spend being a Brug newby. After half a dozen stops, I decided to go back to Wal-Mart and purchase the plastic buckets with rope handles, which are approximately 25 gallons. Of the 12 buckets in stock at the Wal-Mart in Tupelo MS, 4 were bright blue, 3 steel blue and the remaining were bright pink…yuck!!! Bright idea I raced over to the garden department to see if they had Pink Flamingos, at least it would be something to laugh about. They didn’t have any and the sales clerk looked at me real odd when I asked for them. Going back to the housewares department pushing one cart and pulling another, I asked for assistance in loading them ,,, I have short arms and it would have been necessary for me to stand on a ladder to drop them into the cart. When asked how many I said all of them. That’s when the clerk pointed out the stack on the top shelf and asked if I wanted those also. They were all bright blue, I wouldn’t be forced to buy bright pink!!! How wonderful!!!
With groceries and mega sacks of dog food there was barely enough room for the 15 plastic buckets and no space for the potting soil. I’m off at the crack of dawn to buy potting soil so I can complete this task.. Meanwhile the brugs are out in the yard soaking up the rays and growing like weeds.
If I need more plastic buckets, does anyone have a source for Pink Flamingos? (lol lol lol)
Bad Luck turned out to be a blessing. I bruised my heel very badly therefore have not potted up the Brugs, which turned out to be a blessing since the low tomorrow night is suppose to be 33 degrees. The small pots I can handle but I surely would have had a hard time with fifteen 25 gallon pots!!!
Good Luck to anyone who is forecasted to get this cold spell.
Judy
Judy, I have a bunch of my Brugs planted outside and we're supposed to get down to 32. I also have beans, corn, squash and tomatoes in the garden that will probably freeze.
DANG!!! I am so sorry. What are you doing to try to do, anything like covering them with old sheets or plastic buckets over the brugs?
Mixing up the soil with the aid of a concrete mixer.... can't find one to suit me so I'm making my own. Bags of pre-mixed without fertilizer, mixed with peat moss, sand, lime, fertilizer, ground bark and compost. I mix until I can rub it around in my hands and it feels right. .... I hope it feels right to the Brugs.
The big blue tubs in the background are for the brugs.
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I just bet your brugs will love what you fix up for them. It looks like you are having fun and I can't wait to see all of them planted up. They will be beautiful this summer.
Another gal with so much energy. Can't wait to see those brugs when they get big. I'm sticking with just ProMix. No energy here.
Shirley, if the Promix keeps going up, we may have to mix our own. LOL
I wish we had a distributor for FaFard. I love that stuff, but haven't found it nearby yet.
I haven't seen it around my area. I'll have to check around.
Brugie I have never heard of that.
It's good to see you back I have missed you, is your Puter OK now.
Thanks Doris. I'm back, but not everything is back the way it was. That will take a while. At least it is working. That is the main thing.
I used ProMix years ago, but the only place that has it around here is a Wholesale Dist in Memphis (3 hrs round trip) and they require a nursery business lic to buy from them. MiracleGro is OK for plants in the house or ploy covered porches, but in the summer when it gets hot, I need a heavier soil or I'll exhaust myself trying to keep everything watered. (Haven't tried Moisture Control MiracleGro.)
Judy lol your yard looks like my back porch with all the different ferts! lol...I have lime, Cow manure, Mushroom compost, reg potting soil, Epsom Salt & vermiculite....I didn't put any lime or epsom salt in it...do you use alot of the lime in yours??? I have some yellowing of leaves on a few plants and I wonder if thats what it is that it needs or epsom salt...Any ideas anyone?
I don't know anything about Brugs but yellowing could mean too much fertilizer or not enough. (that's always a gotcha, right!!) Lime helps to break down other material and when I make my own soil I always add lime.
I think that it has to be not enough soil mix and too much fert...lol...cos' I went to check the pot and saw it didn't have enough soil in it to begin with but when I was fertilizing them all at once, it got the same treatment as the others. Least its alive, hey ! lol I'll go add more soil mixture. I'm finding that just mushroom compost is doing rather well too. It's so time consuming mixing all the different dirts together and compost and such...it's not so bad when you do a few pots up, then it gets tiring. My poor back!
I sat down in my rocking chair to enjoy the grilling outdoors and my Grand daughter...thank God, I wasn't holding her, and as soon as I rocked back once, SNAP!!!!! The leg came off of the rocker, I went tumbling backwards, falling sideways rocker and all, and landed on my head and side! All I could think of was, I'm gonna break my neck. I feel like I've been hit by a truck! All body parts are bruised! *sigh*
Julie
I guess I can laugh about it now lol
Bless your heart. If it just happened be sure someone keeps an eye on you for you could have a concusion. Hope you're not sore for too long.
Judy
lots of Blue Emu w/mentholatum (sp) and Ben-Gay honey lol....lots of it! Dousing down and applying lots of cold/heat packs. I'm bruised on my whole left side. I'm just thankful the baby (3 mths today) wasn't in the chair with me....oh boy it gives me the willies thinkin' bout that.
Julie :)
Oh My!!! It would have been horrible had you been holding your GD. How fortunate that you weren't.!!!
Judy
I know! Thanks Judy, you're a sweetie :)
Julie
Julie, glad you're okay, just bruised.