Cheapest Method For Container Growing, Ep 122

good morning fellow gardeners well we're back with you we're going to show you a way to make this wicking tub with a uh cow mineral protein tub and the milk jugs and the sodi pop bottles this is the most economical way i know of to make it if you if you get on craigslist and see if anybody's trying to sell some of these or go to your local feed store ask them who buys all of these mental tubs in a hundred or 500 lots at a time they're going to have lots of tubs that they'll be glad to sell you're giving okay we have the new ones here that we sell for 12.95 a piece or if you buy 10 or more we'll sell them to you for 10 each now this is in april of 2001 this won't be a current a year from now okay we sell this used ones for seven dollars apiece this is still in april now this is in may now i'm sorry of 2000 of 2021. i'll get it right in a minute i don't even know what my name is for sure but i think it is okay here we go we're going to drill a hole up here at three or four inches up whichever one you want to do three inches up or four inches up it doesn't make any difference to me as long as you stay shorter than the gallon jugs in here this is going to hold this much water and this much air above it so this is here we go we're going to show you how to build this one from your jugs and your pop bottles all right we got the hole right there now we're going to set her down and this is the milk jugs this has happened to be an orange juice jug we're going to drill four holes in the bottom we're gonna drill four holes up here at the top these are just an eighth of an inch to 3 16. see them little holes right there uh we don't want them you know big as your finger because in the soil for filling bottles up now we're going to put these in here solid uh just like that all the way around and one in the middle and we'll pull that one out of the middle and that's going to be your wick that soil is going to wick the water up to your plants now we did the same thing on these bottles these are pop bottles and this is a water bottle it's a good stout one i don't advise using regular water bottles because they are so soft but anyway we drilled the four little holes up here and the four little holes down at the bottom an eighth to 3 16. we turn these upside down right in there that helps stop them holes up and if you want to get technology just put you another jug in there and leave all these bottles out fill them full of soil all the way around and that'll be your wick there just either way you want to do it some people want their wick in the middle some want it around the outside so we're going to give you that choice which way you'd like to do you still cut your pipe at an angle on the end and stick it right down in there or you can take one of the jugs and cut the threads off of it and stick it right in that pipe that pipe right in the jug like that either way you want to do now if you really want to get technical over here where you've got your drain hole if you want to drill that a little bigger put you a piece of half inch pipe through that hole over into one of your milk jugs you can do that so that your drain is always draining out of your water bottle and not out of your soil that'll keep this from stopping up a lot of people don't want to go to that trouble so we're going to give you the choice of which way you want to do all right now we're back to this we're gonna put our here's our hole over here we're gonna put our bottle our pipe over here we're gonna ask richard to help us fill this thing up with soil and halfway up and then we're gonna put our fertilizer in it now again we're using potting mix and not potting soil potting soil is the too heavy of soil uh anyway this potting mix goes in just like into that uh richard that's probably enough right there up top of the jugs we're gonna stop right there and now then we're gonna put us a eight uh let's start with our uh we put a half a half a cup of this uh sustain which is nothing but chicken poop and turkey feather a half a cup and we're just going to scatter it down in there now this is if you're making new i recommend putting halfway down if this has been used a year and it's full of soil you can either dip some of the soil out put your fertilizer in put you some new soil in put that used soil back down in the bottom of the next in your bill or you can put it back in here if you prefer all right it takes a half a cup of that it takes a fourth a cup of the of the sea mineral let me get a fourth of a cup of that in there let me get it right here now this is not sea salt this is sea mineral uh don't do the problem of the of the thing of putting in sea salt that'll burn your plants uh i know we had some people try to use that redmonds and you can't use it like this because it'll burn your plants too easy it's good for pastures but it's not good for potted plants like this okay we're putting an eighth of an ounce i mean eighth of a cup of epsom salt which is the epsom salt you have under your sink we're gonna put an eighth of a cup and by the way you can call our number and we will send you a copy of this paper of what all you put in this bucket so you if that's what you want it call yeah don't call 1580-564-529-2166 number called joyces okay yeah you can call me at 580-564-5909 and i'll do the same thing i'll i will text you a copy of that paper that we use okay this is eighth a cup of gypsum we encourage you to use this a lot of people call and say well i can't find gypsum i can't find lime uh we got the epsom salt we got the lime we got the gypsum in there didn't we now then we got that in there we're ready to go i guess okay that's all five items in there now then richard go ahead and finish this up uh so let me call do i have to put this pipe in you don't have to put that pipe in but the reason i put that pipe in there is so that the the people that wants to put water in it every day they won't drown their plant they can put it down in the bottom let it suck up like it wants to a little bit more richard will be fine okay all right that ought to be good richard right there we thank you very much and now then we're gonna spread this out you can fill it up a little fuller if you want to it's going to settle a little bit but we're going to stop right there you put your hole in the middle if you want to put one tomato plant that's what we recommend because this thing's going to grow big and a big root system and everything with all this fertilizer put your plant right in there tomato plant and then for the next two to three weeks water from the top just every other day or every three days as it needs water to get that plant to rooting down into there after the two or three weeks quit putting water on top of it i know if you're out inside outside in the rain it's going to rain in that's okay just have to use your head and say well it rained last night i won't need the water for the next two or three days now the only thing that rain's going to do is going to weaken your fertilizer so what you need to do is come back next time you water put your master bla your nature source in there one teaspoon per gallon again this is the 10-4-3 we use the higher nitrogen to start the plant to growing now when this tomato plant or any other plant that fruits starts to bloom excuse me like peppers eggplants cucumbers green beans squash tomatoes when it gets up to the point you start seeing some blooms you start using this master this nature source put it up in the garage and get you the master blend out because now you're gonna start using one teaspoon per every gallon of water you put in this water capacity down here if it takes one gallon or two gallon or three gallon you put a teaspoon per every gallon of water you put in there until it runs out that hole we want to fill it up and then you're good for about a week now if the plant is up here getting up in the summertime it's real hot six or seven feet tall then you're gonna have to water about every four to five days but as long as it's small once the week will get you by anyway you use this master blend on all bloomin plants after they start blooming now if you're growing something like lettuce or spinach something that you eat the leaves of you know uh uh kale anything that you eat the leaves up you stay with your nature source because you're growing leaves and not growing blooms so that's the way you do this and what if i miss now jack if i missed anything i've got the tomato plant in here we're watering it the first two to three weeks with from the top with fertilizer or without fertilizer if you don't want to mix it in you do have a little bit of fertilizer down there to get you started that's the reason we do that in there so you won't but just don't get to where you skip fertilizing because we want this plant eating and drinking and breathing 24 hours a day seven days a week i want you to i want this plant eating every day that you eat and that's the reason we put this food down in the bottom so it can constant feed what about plastic covering over the top yeah if you're out in the rain if you're worried about out in the rain you know you're getting like they got paul's valley they got six or seven inches of rain the other night if you're worried about that you know that's gonna be a lot of rain go into this that's gonna go out that hole you're gonna lose that fertilizer out which you live with but if you want to keep that rain out you go ahead and round this bucket up with the soil make it round put your tomato plant in there you take one of these take a black plastic bag or a white plastic bag and you're going to put it down over it you're going to cut you a little bit of x in it put it down over your tomato plant and you've got it's it's it's going to be mounded up so and you put this plastic bag over here and tie your string around under this lip and that keeps that rain from going in there'll be a little bit of rain going around that plant if you got a little tiny x in it but it won't be much and that'll keep that excess rain out i don't usually do that i just let it go and put some more fertilizer in if we get a five or six inch rain i know i need to come back and put about two or three teaspoons in a gallon of water and pour it down through there to get it back up built back up like it is anyway if you like this video punch the button ring the bell subscribe and we'll come back make you another video

Channel: Gardening With Leon

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Length: 11min 22sec (682 seconds)

Published: Sun May 16 2021