Another Pic Inside dem. 14" by 21" by 21" deep
Re building my grow pole garden
I didn't get fill pipe in yet or overflow hole ..We have snow storm coming in the morning so I'll have time then.. Sure wont be out wandering With all your bright ideas ya could send some warm temp's this way..LOL
Tubby
Tubby: That is one fine looking HEB there, what are you thinking about planting in it? How much water will the reservoir hold and how many plants???
joy
joy112854..It is 1470 cubic inch's I think approx. 5 gal's I'v never had one before so I don't know how many plants it will hold.. This one is going to family reunion auction to help pay for build rent & food..This & other stuff I always make
The ones I'm going to make for myself will be bigger..I'm thinking 2 ft by 4 ft by 2 ft high..I will have wheels on them I think
I have a bunch of 55 gal barrels I was going to use for EB's But they had unknown chemical's Do not use for food or drink stamped on lid#@$%#$ I mean DARN
Tubby
Tubby far better to be safe than sorry. I must say you have excellent carpentry skills. I'll bet window boxes would sell very well at auction using cedar or redwood if available?
I'v made bird house's'..bench's.,little wood wheelbarrow little chair's,.medicine type cabinet's with an assortment screws & nails,. saw horse's old windows with planter box's,. old kitchen chairs with hole in seat for flower pot and more Good idea of window box's Thanks Ted
Tubby
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Tubby: Well you did a great job making it and it is for a very good cause also.
joy
Thats good work for a good cause, Tubby.
Jaywhackef & Tpant..I think the thre of us are retired ..Wal-Mart just had an opening ROFLOL
So, after landing my new job as a Wal-Mart greeter, a good find for many
> retirees, I lasted less than a day......
>
> About two hours into my first day on the job a very loud, unattractive,
> mean-acting woman walked into the store with her two kids, yelling
> obscenities at them all the way through the entrance. As I had been
> instructed, I said pleasantly, 'Good morning and welcome to Wal-Mart.
> Nice
> children you have there. Are they twins?'
>
> The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to say, 'Hell no, they ain't
> twins. The oldest one's 9, and the other one's 7. Why the hell would you
> think they're twins? Are you blind, or just stupid?'
>
> So I replied, 'I'm neither blind nor stupid, Ma'am, I just couldn't
> believe
> you got laid twice. Have a good day and thank you for shopping at
> Wal-Mart.'
>
>
> My supervisor said I probably wasn't cut out for this line of work.
I dissagree with your supervisor........Walmart needs more like you.:-)
And Joy.........you have me and Jerry mixed up. Jerry is the good looking one and I am the other one.........Jay
Jay: You got a good sense of humor anyways to say the least right? LOL I didn't know Jerry was good looking???? Sorry about getting the two of you confused, you are both talented and give excellent advice, so I'm sure you can understand the confusion?
joy
Good for you Tubby! I am long retired and go to Walmart about twice a month to pick up a couple of things and have seen a lot of nonsense taken by the greeters. I'm still laughing and I bet you hold the record for the shortest employment with WAlmart. LOL
Tplant I would like to have been that man LOL .But it was just a story my DD sent me She said thought of you first thing.. Ya think they know me..They had to put up with my shanniguns (sp) & mischief Now it's the GK's My GS asked how come you always kid me?..I said it's fun !! He thought for a couple seconds then said (with emphasis) NOT FOR ME !!ROFLOL He still gets a laugh out of that..
6" of snow yesterday ugh
Did you find access for those mask????
Tubby
Uesd them as necessary! Still have some and all dust will stop this week as everyting is being paved so I'll be back to normal. Thanks again.
Just so you have some other wise LMK
Tubby
TPlant: You could send the pavers this way when they are done, everyone else's street in the neighborhood is paved; but mine is still hard clay and all tore up now that they have paved all the other roads, and my taxes are still higher than my neighbors, go figure right?
joy
I"ll ask them?
TPlant: I'm really sorry they messed things up for you and your planting schedule as I know you love growing tomatoes. I got plenty of startings would you like some of mine?
joy
No thanks Joy! It is to late for me to start tomatos in zone 10.
Moving right along......slow but sure. This is the view out of my kitchen window as of today. The new platform on the left side still needs3/4 inch conduit screwed to it for mounting the vertical systems. On the right is the older platform that was sitting directly on the ground. I added legs to it and will change its pole mounting system to the same as all the others. I also need to put down some more lawn cover in order to place the two new platforms in their permanent positions. The sweet pea pole on the older platform is starting to flower a little bit. Hopefully, it will become a mass of blooms.
I planted those sweetpeas back about last october. I called Renee's Gardens and asked their advise about planting sweetpeas on a vertical system like this. I was hoping they would trail, or droop downword, but a lady named Beth advised me that sweetpeas probably would not trail, they preferred to grow up. She was right, their vines may sag due to their weight but the growing tips always turn back up.
The one pole right in the center of the photo was planted in a mesclun mix. Looks like it is past time for eating salads. Last year I managed three cuttings from a mixture just like that. Im tempted to just plant a pole with a really colorful mixture of greens and treat them like flowers.
Excellent work, Babylon's hanging gardens got nothing on you.
joy
Here is a close up of the sweet pea pole on the older platform while it was still sitting on the ground. You can see the growing tips of the peas straining to keep growing up in spite of their sagging weight. I think I planted too many plants on that pole.
This also gives a better view of my older system of mounting the electrical conduit to the platform. Seemed like a good idea at the time but I built them out of 1/2 inch fence boards. When you get a big mass of flowers growing on the poles, like these sweet peas or a big pole of zinnia's, they act like a big sail and this Texas wind try's to blow them down. These old pole mounts will be removed and my new system installed.
Now that's talent right there.
joy
Looking good. But, you learn with everything you do.
Jeanette
Here is the old platform with the old style puny pole mounts removed and stacked over in the far corner of the fence. The 3/4 inch conduit screwed firmly to each corner of the platform should never be bothered by strong wind gusts which are common in this area.
I simply lifted the 5 EZgro pots of sweetpeas off their mount and stacked them over in the fence corner temporarily. They continue to grow merrily along and have some red blooms.
I was just thinking.......always dangerous.......that if you owned a long flatbed trailer and mounted stobs on it for transporting grow poles of strawberries, you could just drive them down to some farmers market and set up a pick-ur-own operation.
Sweet peas standing in the corner. No hurry to remount them. Im thinking I might seperate all 5 pots and mix them in on other poles with some other stuff thats growing. If a guy had about 20 flower poles growing and decided to get artistic trying to properly mix and match flower colors......he could go nuts. That would be 100 pots to shift and shuffle around. Just thinking about it tires me out.:-)
HAHA, Jay, now quitcha thinking, you keep me worn out! LOVELY idea of driving a flatbed of stackers full of berries down to let little children experience "pick your own". Even if you did it as a charity (nursing home, disadvantaged day care children, heck ANY daycare) what a joy to see someone experience that, whether for the first time ever, or the first time in MANY years. That would be reward enough if you didn't make a dime....
Jay: You have quite the imaginative mind and a good one at that, I love those tables and the design of them and the way they hold those planters, that is a great idea.
joy
Bob: I went to the market place and found your stackable planters and have some questions here. I was going to have planter boxes put all the way round my deck; but, after seeing you NJ one, I'm thinking now. Yeah, I know that's dangerous for me. LOL But, here goes: I have 80 daffodil bulbs planted in pots on the deck now. It's a 12 X 30 deck with rails all round. Now, will daffodils grow in them things? And if so, how many do I need to fit on my railings all round a 12 x 30 deck? I like that self watering stuff.
My rails are 5 1/2 inches wide and 1 1/2" thick. Will go measure how long now.
Ok, it's been measured, the left side of the deck rail is 144" long, the left front part up to the where you enter the deck is 263" long, the right side front where you enter the deck is 52" long and the right side is of course 144" long. So, how many planters would cover all that?
joy
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Easy Joy
joy I'm interested in the deck boxs too..I'm in process of building a new deck..Piers are poured. material is all stacked. Waiting for warm weather
Tubby
Tubby tee: I love mine, I go out to it every day no matter what kind of weather we are having and have a little table with 3 chairs out there for just sitting on and looking at the yard. Mine is 30 x 12, which gives me enough room for a nice size gas grill and table and chairs and loads of plants.
Why easy Bob, you know me, I never take things easy, I always plunge right in head first. LOL
Well, stump getting rid of process didn't go as smoothly as I anticipated it would go. My friend came by, we couldn't find any kerosene so used gasoline instead soaking the stumps where we had made the holes and used the Hi-Yield stump remover in last month to start the process. I grabbed gasoline cans like crazy as he had a hard time starting the stumps burning due to winds and I was afraid of him blowing himself up with the gas cans so close to where he was working, you know me, miss worry wart, anyways, they smoldered for a while and I still got roots left. (darn it).
He got my hooks hung for the chains on my two flourescent light fixtures, one bulb has blown on one, gotta replace that, and I am going to buy different chains, the ones I bought don't seem to be the right ones, and of course, I gotta have the right ones. I am going to wait until just before planting outside to hang the bird netting on the fence for my beans and peas also; as it's small bird netting and very light weight. The screws that came with the two hooks for hanging up the hanging grow bags with came with cheap screws too, so, gotta get some wood screws, I'm screwing them into the wooden fence posts in the back yard.
All in all, it was a good day, just wanting to finish up. Terminix comes in Tuesday for their termite yearly inspection, and then Wednesday, True Green comes in to start on my lawn improving program, they are going to wait until my trees and the rest of my flowers come in before injecting the beds with the fertilizer and weed preventer treatment. Ah, Spring is just around the corner, so why is it still cold. My daughter put a spot light in the room with the plants so they could stay warm, you thought I was bad hey? LOL
joy
Joy, gotta jump in here, what is your "weed preventer treatment?" Is it a Preen, or something like that? Can't remember what they call it.
Jeanette
Jeanette I bought some Preen but True Green injects fertilizers and stuff in flower beds and round the shrubs and trees for you, you don't have to treat them for anything, and it is specialized so I'm all for it. I sit out on the deck and visualize how green my lawn is going to be and how pretty my flowers and trees are going to look. I have 80 daffodil bulbs on the deck in pots and think they would look great in Bob's NJ self watering planters, if they fit over my railing, how many plants can I put in that thing I wonder, oh Bob, where are you? LOL
joy
Well, Joy what are you going to do with your pots when the daffs are done blooming? Then what?
Jeanette
That is a good question, Jeanette. Ive never grown bulb type plants before but am trying some this year. My plans are to gently remove the bulb type plants from the grow pole pots (or deck rail pots in Joy's case) and gently place them in a cheap nursery pot or ground bed and let them finish doing their thang until they go dormant or whatever it is they do. Their roots will hold onto a big chunk of that soft coir mix and I am thinking they can be transplanted without too much shock. Especially if I transplant them into the same coir mix. I figger they will look around and say, "hmmm, looks just like home." I am open to suggestions from someone with actual knowledge of bulb doings.
It requires some planning to keep the grow poles or deck planters looking good all growing season. Something that blooms all season long is nice but limits choice. Lots of plants will poop out during the hottest months of summer and lots of other plants only flower for a short time. You have the same problems with all container type gardening, how to keep them looking good and flowering all season long. With proper planning and timing, you can be growing new plants in 4 inch pots ready for transplant to replace the pooped out plants. And of course, there is always the good old reliable six packs of seasonal plants from the local nursery.
As a for instance, this morning, I completely destroyed a four pot pole of mesclun mix and replanted the pots with allysum and dianthus plants bought from the nursery. I did not like that mesclun mix and didnt wont it taking up grow pole space for something I like better.
Jnette: Leave the bulbs in the pot til the following Spring? I never have to lift my bulbs. They come back year after year.
joy
Rearranging pots. I salvaged one pot of radish's from the mesclun pole that I destroyed. Thats the third pot up. The top pot has two types of onions just to see how they grow on grow poles plus a couple of miniature sweet peas added for entertainment. I moved these two pots to stack on top of a pot of bok choi and a pot of chard.
Jay: You simply amaze me with all you are doing, it looks simply wonderful.
joy
Planted 18 more strawberries in the little terracotta stackers. Just dumped the grow mix in a wheelbarrow, added some slow release fertilizer pellets, slapped the grow mix and plants in the pots and re-stacked them.
Everything is portable, light weight, fast, and "labor-lite". And yes, I was sitting down on the job the whole time. Me thinks my dirt farming days are over.:-)
