Bucket Gardening

At 14 inches high and 12 in diameter it allows plenty of room for deep wide roots.

Bucket gardening. In addition to the versatility of being able to harvest vegetables from your deck or patio bucket gardening also offers versatility. One of the beauties of 5 gallon bucket gardening is that it takes advantage of materials widely available even in the poorest parts of the world. Plant the vegetable seedling in the bucket at the same depth it was growing at previously.

Watch the video below for a good demonstration on how to add and how many to add. If you have a tomato cage it s easier to put this in first before adding the potting mix. Each bucket is home to one vegetable plant and perhaps two or three smaller herbs or annual flowers.

That might sound like a lot but it s actually very simple. Five gallon buckets make terrific containers for a huge number of vegetables. And compared to the cost of expensive containers it s hard to beat the 3 to 4 price tag of a 5 gallon bucket.

Plant one large vegetable variety such as a tomato solanum lycopersicum or pepper capsicum annuum in. Drill some holes into the bottom of the buckets. You can move your buckets undercover inside during a frost or heavy rain or wind storm or out into the sunshine on an early spring day.

Grab a few 5 gallon buckets and then a bag of potting mix. Five gallon buckets work very well. All you need are some 5 gallon buckets rocks peat moss planting soil and compost.

In addition to saving space using buckets for gardens also helps with a lot of other common gardening problems like young plants getting trampled rabbits eating plants poor soil hard rains weeds and ease of care. While raised beds can solve many of these problems they are more expensive and require more room. In general you want more than less.