hey everyone this is dream from where the yokels grow where we help you with your gardening issues
to gain food sustainability in your own urban gardens this year i'm taking part in a container
gardening challenge i thought i'd get on here and go over some containers that you may have
at your house that you can repurpose or recycle to start your own container gardening cheap
or even free containers that you can get to start your garden
and if you stick around to the end of the video we'll go over some other options of where you can
learn more about container gardening so let's get to it let's get growing first we're going to talk
about some seed options and how or i'm sorry seed container options and how you can grow from seed
as you can see this is just an egg crate an egg crate is biodegradable in this form
you could easily just put your dirt in here then put your seeds in there and when the time comes
to transplant you don't even have to take it out you just cut it apart and plant it directly into
the ground it's a great option and if you buy eggs it's a free container repurpose and recycle
another great way to start seeds that you have in your house are plastic cups you're
just going to put a couple of holes it doesn't matter what the plastic cup and you can cut
cut it down or whatever put some holes in the bottom put the dirt in it put some seed seeds in
it or even a plant at this size can take a plant um and start your garden solo cups are one of the
most popular things that people start their seeds in i know it's kind of crazy to think about it
again poke some holes in the bottom for drainage and you got a seed starter or a plant a planter
another an easy way to recycle have you all seen these these are little sauce cups these
are from my grandson's peanut butter cup and we're just going to reuse them and repurpose
them i'll stick a couple of holes a little bit of dirt and then we have a little seed starter cup
we also have milk jugs you can start milk jugs a lot of you people who live in colder climates
we are in zone eight so our last expected frost date is march 19th it's an actual beautiful day so
something like this really isn't in my wheelhouse to start but for those of you who live in colder
climates you can actually start your seeds in these leave it in this you know you're going
to cut it around here leave the top on close it put some tape around it and let them grow and
you can actually put this outside in the cold um i'll try to find a video of this and link it to
in the description box below again anything that i mention in this video will be linked below in
the description box if it's something that you can go out and buy or something that you can get
um food containers are great little greenhouses can y'all see that great little greenhouses
start your seeds poke the holes in the bottom put the top on it's a little mini greenhouse
there's a bigger food container repurpose and recycle again holes in the bottom soil in it
seeds on top close the lid mini greenhouse this is great for
somebody who's maybe living in an apartment or has a balcony great idea you all see that
another way to get containers that are like this and you all see that real good
this is a four inch pot that you find at nurseries that people buy their plants
in all the time if you buy a plant keep the pot repurpose it but here's a little secret
local nurseries not the big retail stores and stuff but local nurseries will usually sell these
on your local marketplace facebook pages they sell them really cheap it's like five cents i
got over a hundred of these last year five cents each i walked out of there 20 bucks i don't know
we had these i had five gallon buckets and 10 gallon planters as well 20 dollars for all of it
by the time i was done i had i don't know i had like 25 gallon buckets i had 100 of these
she threw in the the trays to go underneath them for under watering which was very kind
and it was a cheap way to get it also home depot and lowe's sometimes will give away some of their
stuff not all of them but if you want a little secret they like to throw away their dead plants
out in their dumpsters and if you're willing to go dumpster diving you can get free pots
another cheap and inexpensive way to start
seeds if you're wanting to say you live in an apartment but you don't have a lot of space
these are the jiffy can you see them the jiffy seed starting trays they come with an underwater
an underwater i guess it'd be called i don't know right now sorry an underwater tray and it's a 48
sam 48 cell seed starting tray it comes with the jiffy lid and i have used these
they aren't my favorite but it's good for small spices and now you have a greenhouse to start
your seeds now if you're someone who says hey i don't want to start seeds
i just want to plant plants another good options are buckets you drill drill some holes in the
bottom or melt some holes if you got one of those heating arms that's a good way to put
the holes i know home depot and lowe's sells their buckets for about five dollars it's not
really economical if you're on a budget but i want to give you an option these are cloth bags
these are cloth growing bags see if i can open one this is a 10 gallon bag i'm not sure if you can
see it these are great for growing large tomatoes in and i can contest to this because i have grown
my own tomatoes in these they do work wonderfully you can get these on amazon now there are many
types of these these particular ones i believe i got 15 of them for 17 bucks and then the next size
that i have is this one this is a 20 gallon and i got these 20 for 20. did you hear what i said
20 20 gallon bags for 20 on amazon that was a dollar a bag this particular bag could
literally hold a full salsa garden in it and your biggest expense will be your plants and the soil
that you put in it it's a great gardening option especially for those of you who live
on terrace or i'm sorry you have a terrace or a patio or you are a rent renter and
your landlord says hey you're not you're not putting in raised beds it's a great option
for those of you these are called potato bags and i'll show you why they're called
see they're another cloth bag and then they have this little window when it's time to harvest
you're going to harvest them here see there's a hole all right another great option for those of
you who even have smaller spaces but you want to grow vertically and you can grow with these
towers now there are some expensive towers out there uh a green stock depending on what size
you get can cost you anywhere from 100 to 200 dollars you can find great options on amazon
but a good one again fifty dollars i mean minimum and it's small it's not a big one
but these do you see these these are from dollar tree you can get 36 of these
for 36. on dollartree.com now i'm not affiliated in this this video is not sponsored but i am a
firm believer in these and i'll tell you why i grew all my strawberries in these last year last
year just like many of you our company was hit by this pandemic pretty hard and i had to increase
my gardening space and the only way i could do it was to either do container gardens
or grow vertically and at the time when i started in the spring i didn't have a lot of money
so i turned a dollar tree and these things these worked beautifully for me now i grew strawberries
in this and that and all of these i didn't grow vegetables in them but i am going to be doing
uh another video which this video is a three part series and in one of the videos we're going to
talk about these and we're going to actually plant them as a container garden and i have
full confidence that i will be able to grow in these and i'll tell you why somehow one
of my strawberries got a tomato plant inside of its little cell and when i transplanted it
it went with the strawberry and when you know it it grew one of the biggest tomato plants
that i'd ever seen it was an indeterminate cherry plant you see how small that cell was
and it was sharing it with the strawberry root and it grew it just fine you can grow this too i for
fully believe that anybody and everybody can grow a garden no matter where you live or what your
conditions are what your budgets are there are options out there for you and i want you to know
that so if you have found value in this video i want you to know to go over and see a couple of my
favorite urban garden uh youtube channels and they do amazing things i i mean there are things that i
i would probably never attempt that they do but they do amazing things and that's ey gardening
anna kits terrace garden and home and garden channel and i will link them in
the description box below and i look forward to seeing you all in the next video and if you found
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i'm so glad that you came and you watched all the way to the end of the video thank you so much
and i'll see you again in the next video and don't forget to keep growing bye