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Comment by David P. McMillen on February 11, 2012 at 8:40pm

my beans and cherry tomatoes are rapidly outgrowing the little planting cells I started em in! I got some bigger jiffy pots, will it be cool to transplant them? (the beans have some real leaves, the tomatoes have little roots down in the container below the growing cells. I want to put them, or at least the beans in bigger containers under a different lamp until it warms up a bit more I can replant them outside. The weather stills falls into sometimes the 30's or even 20's, so I don't think the last cold spell has hit central Texas yet. Any thoughts?

Comment by Amy Hickel on February 11, 2012 at 8:22pm

My partner and I are just starting out with our first raised bed garden in the side yard of our duplex. We are going to have to take out some of the grass to get it started.  We have heard about some doing a layered bed, where they use old boxes rather than tear out the grass. Has anyone else used this method? Were you able to plant whatever you wanted that first year or did you have to wait a year? thoughts?

Comment by Chris on July 7, 2011 at 10:00am

I'm really new to rooftop / container gardening, so am I ever glad to find all of you!  (also, first post on Homegrown.  hi!)   

Does anyone have any experience growing leeks on their roof?    We have a small container garden, which includes about 20 leeks, and they are doing quite well.  My husband thought that he should bank the soil up around their bases as they grow.   I would normally be inclined to leave them be, but since they are in a container, I think this might be wise, too.

None of the info that we can find on growing leeks mentions this.  

Any thoughts on this?

 

Comment by Bonnie on April 24, 2011 at 9:54pm

I haven't done any hanging tomatoes myself, but I've see them all over my neighborhood. The trick seems to be putting them in the right spot. The ones in full sun usually shrivel up, but the ones with partial shade grow pretty well.

Comment by Jennifer on April 22, 2011 at 4:19pm

Anyone care to share their experience with hanging tomato plants to grow?

Comment by Margaret Beers Oliver on April 7, 2011 at 11:24pm

Lawrence, I don't know how to stop the chipmunks... maybe bird netting?

There hasn't been much activity here for the past few weeks. 

Locally (Colorado Springs) you can go to (or call) Sammys natural grocers and see if they have the buckets.

Comment by Lawrence Danner on April 7, 2011 at 10:36pm

Is it me? Or has there been no comments on this in a month and a half? Walk past any construction site and ask the drywallers if you can have any of their drywall mud buckets. they are either 4 or 5 gallon, heavy plastic buckets, with lids and wire bail handles, that drywallers use by the dozen and often end up in the monster dumpster out front. Or just go dumpster diving at any construction/remodeling site.

On another note, how does anyone keep the chipmunks from eating all the grapes on my backyard arbor? I had dozens of bunches on the half dozen vines I planted 3 years ago and just as they started to ripen, those selfish little rodents ate them all!

Comment by Margaret Beers Oliver on February 17, 2011 at 1:15pm

In the past I have used everything from old bread wrappers and plastic grocery sacks to a ratty pillow case as emergency potting. LOL

However in the house you might want pot bottoms with any of the above.

Comment by Beginning Farmer Coordinator on February 17, 2011 at 11:16am

Hi everyone--I got ahead of myself and seeded some cucurbits before obtaining large containers for their mature life.  They are really busting out of their starting pots and I wonder if anyone has thoughts on containers...should I bite the bullet and buy new, plastic ones?  Or is there a good recycling choice that I haven't thought of?  I've been going to secondhand stores and there don't seem to be really good options for containers that could be converted--however since then I've read about re-using old trunks and drawers.

Comment by Margaret Beers Oliver on February 15, 2011 at 1:12pm

Good point Aliza! Squirrels and birds are the ones that go for them here. I wonder if the sacks would be paper to stop them from seeing them or just a barrier so net sacks would work?

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