This is another update on my 2011 season using self-watering containers (litter buckets) that have no PVC fill tube. Instead, they have a 7/8″ fill/overflow hole at the top of the water reservoir. Near the end of the video I show how easy it is to fill them through the small hole. I used empty [...]
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Four Weeks Into The 2011 Growing Season
June 12th, 2011 
Mamma Blogga Our earliest plants were put in the self watering buckets back on May 11th, one month ago. The following photos were taken on June 9th but with plenty of warm weather and rain, the plants are even bigger than what you see in the photos. Even the little seedlings that I thought about tossing, but [...]
Make Your Own Upside Down Hanging Planters
April 9th, 2011 Mamma Blogga Last season my neighbor and I made quite a few of our own upside-down hanging planters using any kind of bucket we could get our hands on. I stuck with kitty litter buckets since I always have an abundance of them around. In the following video you will see two photos of my moisture meter. When we [...]
Litter Buckets Work Better Than Topsy Turvy Planters!
August 16th, 2010 Mamma Blogga It’s been awhile since I posted fresh photos of my experiment using empty cat litter buckets as patio planters (they’re cheap!). Although my Topsy Turvy hanging planters as well as my two home made hangers are showing an abundance of foliage, the tomatoes are scarce!. Compare that to the litter buckets on my patio which [...]
Get A Load Of These Babies!
July 21st, 2010 Mamma Blogga We may never go back to planting in the ground since we are so impressed by the results of our Litter Bucket patio plants. They are so much easier to maintain with hardly any wasted water or nutrients. They all get a good drink either at night or early in the morning which takes very [...]
Hanging Planters Are Doing Great
July 9th, 2010 Mamma Blogga I thought that I would update everyone on my Topsy Turvy hanging planters as well as my home-made ones. Like I had mentioned earlier I did not rototill my garden this year due to the lack of sunshine in that location. Instead I used a whole bunch of cat litter buckets that I had been [...]
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1 Comment »Skipping The Garden This Year!
June 15th, 2010 Mamma Blogga I languished over the thought of putting in a garden again this year and finally decided against it. In fact, due to my trees getting so large causing the lack of direct sun, I am going to lightly till the surface and seed it back as part of my yard. I spent Sunday cleaning up [...]
Topsy Turvy Tomatoes Are Looking Better
June 10th, 2010 Mamma Blogga My two Topsy Turvy hanging tomatoes appear to be doing better lately. As I posted earlier, I purchased six rather huge tomato plants that were so cheap I couldn’t pass them up. The problem was, they were growing in a 6″ pot which gave them a root ball twice the size of the opening in [...]
