Everything in this beautiful basket was grown in containers — mostly metal garbage cans and old farm buckets — in our backyard.
We’re still pulling in a few tomatoes but they’ve turned as soggy as the early fall weather. The change in season spurred us to take delivery yesterday of 40 bales of straw, which we’ll use to mulch beds, put around the chicken coop as insulation for the winter and lay down in the new container beds we hope to build before the snow comes.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I also use all kinds of containers for planting especially love aluminum tubs of all sizes, barrels found at the dump,metal pails,ash buckets,food tins that held oils or sugaring buckets ,i go to the fleamarket weekly and always find some unusual container,some i can paint and decorate to make them more suitable.lately everything is painted pale green and ochre??L.