Alright, so I'm renting this house, and it has about 12 milk crates that the owners were using for various things.
I have a bunch of vegetables started, and im starting more this saturday. (And others will be planted directly to soil when ground is finally workable... im in cold winnipeg, canada)
Anyways, so I'm going to turn as much of the backyard and front yard into edible producing goodness (herbs/vegetables/melons etc.),
I'm thinking of doing containers for what I won't be able to put in the ground, and I have all these milk crates. Do you guys think it's a good idea to use these? Or maybe some ways I could modiify them.. possibly lined with some sort of mesh lining to allow draining and aeration.. but keep the roots in the crate.
<3 hope to hear something inspiring.. ill continue to google!
oh i found this too.. which seems kinda what im dreaming bout: www.thriftyfun.com/tf20107463.tip.html
I have a bunch of vegetables started, and im starting more this saturday. (And others will be planted directly to soil when ground is finally workable... im in cold winnipeg, canada)
Anyways, so I'm going to turn as much of the backyard and front yard into edible producing goodness (herbs/vegetables/melons etc.),
I'm thinking of doing containers for what I won't be able to put in the ground, and I have all these milk crates. Do you guys think it's a good idea to use these? Or maybe some ways I could modiify them.. possibly lined with some sort of mesh lining to allow draining and aeration.. but keep the roots in the crate.
<3 hope to hear something inspiring.. ill continue to google!
oh i found this too.. which seems kinda what im dreaming bout: www.thriftyfun.com/tf20107463.tip.html
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Re: Milk crates in the garden???
Fri, April 4, 2008 - 2:49 PMI'm using a milk crate for some of my rainbow chard and it seems to be doing fine. I didn't do anything fancy for the lining. I just used a trash bag with a bunch of holes poked and cut in it to allow drainage, which of course made the entire enterprise extremely affordable. I think it's a great idea to recycle containers for gardening. I also have some modified 5 gallon buckets and wicker baskets in my odd little collection and they are all doing great. Go for it!!! -
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Re: Milk crates in the garden???
Sat, April 5, 2008 - 2:40 PMyuppers, plastic bag liners. I used a beat up old tarp that I easily cut into smaller pieces. Worked just fine. I am in semi-sunny (but still chilly ) Oregon, and I have already gotten spinach with it's 3rd leaves and 2 little heads of broccoli going. I have beans on their fourth leaves and climbing . And my snow snap peas are out of control. I have had to go out there and re-align the twine for the climbers. And yesterday I found a blueberry bush int he yard across the alley. I asked the guys working on the old house if they were planning on taking it out. Nope, and they said that they would give me the new owners number. Hmm, I might be able to schmoos my way into having free fresh blueberries with in 10 feet of my door. Yippy... -
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Re: Milk crates in the garden???
Tue, April 8, 2008 - 1:26 AMI've grown tomatoes in beat up cooking stockpots and they worked fine. It torned out they were conversation pieces. -
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Re: Milk crates in the garden???
Tue, April 8, 2008 - 9:13 AMMy mom used to work at the Doc Martin's warehouse here in Oregon up in Portland. As am employee she was able to get boots super super cheap. Her biggest and best cactus is currently growing in a size 11 mens 10-eye green doc boot. By far my favorite planter of hers. -
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Re: Milk crates in the garden???
Thu, April 10, 2008 - 4:48 PMI have seen worn out work boots used for hen snd chicks (cat and kittens). The guy eventually sold them to a person for $50 at a farmer's market after 2 people decided to have a bidding war over them. He only spent $5.00 to plant them. -
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Re: Milk crates in the garden???
Tue, April 15, 2008 - 12:56 AMMy mom and her gal pal make fused glass items and jewelry, but mom always sticks a few odd items of hens and chicks on the display table. Odd random bowls or a old tea canister or a cute kids show. And she always manages to sell them right along with the glass wares. i just gave her a dented bread pan a few days ago, she had hens and chicks in that thing in a hour. Sunday, just before break down of the market, had sold it for $20 , and to top it off, she sold it to another marketer that was selling ,,,, cactus plants but in regular pots, ha ha ha, it's crazy huh -
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Re: Milk crates in the garden???
Wed, April 23, 2008 - 8:38 AMKind of off the subject of milk crates, but new ideas are always helpful.
i've started a container garden out of every sort of container i come in contact with.
soymilk cartons are the worst/best. Because of how they are made they can't be recycled so i was just saving them for the longest time planning to make some ridiculous piece of eco artwork out of them in demonstration, got kinda out of control.
Then I got the better idea of cutting them in half and poking holes in the bottom and using them as pots. The wax coating makes them perfect to start plants in.
I save all wine and beer bottles and either put them upside down in the ground in rows as garden edging or, use them for aquatic plants.
Milk crates are also amazing, they have about a million uses.
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