This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
I have another exciting episode for you today.
I'm outside the 99 only stores, and the 99 only stores are a chain of stores that sell
things like it's like a dollar store basically, and I'm here today to show you guys any products
that may help you grow more food at home.
Now, while I'm not into a lot of the products that they sell here, they do have some good
deals.
In the past, I've gotten plant clips and seeds and even air pumps for aquariums for $1.
So, I never know what I'm going to find and every day they always have new stuff.
So, I'm exciting to show you guys if there's anything I the 99 store, or the dollar store,
that'll help you grow more food at home.
So, we're here in the dollar store and we're inside and there's literally thousands of
items and a lot of them you probably just don't need.
They don't add any value to your life, but there are a few things here that will allow
you to grow more food, and those are the things that I'm here to show you guys today.
First off, of course, they have bulbs, a lot of bulbs.
Most of these are not edible, but I want to show you guys a couple that are.
You got 12 Dutch onions, that's 99 cents, defiantly a good deal.
Also, they got the red baron Dutch onions.
So, these bulbs you could plant not and definitely good to have some onions.
So, $1 could grow you 12 onions.
In addition, they got some good deals on some seeds.
The seed packet has been picked through a lot.
The seeds here are not 99 cents, they're 29.99 cents.
So, that's actually 30 cents only, but 20 cents will buy you a packet of squash or cucumber
or lettuce or carrots or radishes, even actually the best deal here is this corn here.
This was marked at 1.99, 29 cents for a pack of corn seeds.
So, next I'm going to show you guys some planters that are actually stacking planters that they
have here at the dollar store.
Now, these are the same, or at least very similar to the ones you just saw.
Here they are right here.
This is one kind.
Once again, 99.99 cents.
These are the stacking planters.
You can see this one's 99 cents.
There's no holes in this, so, you know, you're going to have to pop some holes in it yourself,
but, check this out, these are made to stack up very nicely, and they have 2 designs.
They have this design and they have these guys over here.
This is the circular design.
They probably hold very similar amounts of soil.
Check it out.
For $10 you could get a setup like this.
This setup is 10 high and this will grow you 30 plants.
So, you know, definitely a good deal.
$10, 30 plants, because of the 99 only store.
Now, once again, these are plastic.
These are made in Israel, so they may be fairly high quality but they don't have any holes
in them and if you're going to grow something this tall it can get kind of wobbly, so you
may want to drill the holes out in the middle, right through here, and put like a nice tubing
through there, like emt tubing, something lie that, to stabilize it and also of course
run an irrigation system and make sure you pop those holes in it.
Now, I'm not a huge fan of plastic, but if plastic planters are going to allow you to
grow more food, I'm all for it.
So, next I'm going to show you guys planters that I do like, actually, that they have here
at 99 only store.
They got your standard clay pots.
Now, these are nice clay pots.
This one pot would be good for like one head of lettuce or some herbs.
Actually, it's really good to grow mint, something like this, grow your mint in here and then
plant this underneath the ground so that the mint can't spread out.
So, that's actually a nice tip, but 99 cents, a nice clay pot, definitely a good deal as
well.
Besides the pot, they also have potting soil for 99 cents.
Now, I don't recommend the potting soil here.
You get hardly anything.
This is so light, this is not a good deal, although they make it out to be.
So, not everything a the 99 only store is a good deal.
Go to a big box store and get some organic potting soil or organic compost instead, but
another good item at the 99 only store is this guy right here.
You can see it's 99.99 only, but it's this guys.
It's a foldable plant support.
You can see here, looks like a standard tomato cage.
They're showing tomatoes here, but I wouldn't recommend this for tomatoes.
These guys just kind of pop up like this and then there's 3 bars that hold this stable
so it collapses for easy storage when you're done with the season, and, you know, for 99
cents, definitely a good deal, but I would probably only use these and not tomatoes because,
you know what?
This is not even that tall, maybe like 2 feet tall if that.
Last thing I want to show you guys here and the 99 cents store that can help you grow
more food, especially if you're growing vertically, you need to tie so that you can get your plants
off the ground so that they can grow vertically 'cause you may have more airspace than you
do land if you live in a residential area.
These guys right here.
This is the first time I've seen these at the 99 store.
These are clips, and these allow you to basically reuse these clips to pin up you tomatoes and
all different kinds, peas and plants to bamboo stakes.
It's 99 cents for 16 reusable, that's the thing, reusable plant clips.
Great deal, and these guys, on the back, are marked 2.95.
So, that's 1/3 off here, and I know that these are definitely a good deal.
In addition, they just got your standard flexible plant tape.
This stuff might cot 2-3 bucks at a nursery, just 99 cents here, but once again, I'd encourage
you guy to get the reusable plant ties instead because you can use these year after year
whereas if you just tear this off and tie things, usually that takes more time plus
you usually got to throw this stuff away.
They also have some tools down here, and a lot of these tools, you know, you guys get
what you pay for.
I definitely wouldn't recommend them.
Some of them are nicer, something like this, you know, for $1, a little hand trough or
shovel thing, oops, that breaks.
I probably wouldn't recommend some of the stuff that I showed you guys.
They also have some irrigation things, like plastic sprinklers and whatnot.
Now, once again, you guys get what you pay for and I'd probably recommend you spending
a little but more and getting a lot higher quality items, Hopefully you guys enjoyed
this episode, learning more about some of these items at the 99 cent only store that'll
help you grow more food at home.
One again, my name is John Kohler with growingoyurgreens.com.
We'll see you next time and keep on growing.