I know this video is 2 yrs old, but I'm so glad I found it today. I can't afford containers for gardening, but I can get boxes from work and bags at the hardware store. thank you for sharing this.
I totally agree. I just found it yesterday and was so excited. I am trying to do an organic garden and it is just so expensive even starting with seeds. This will really help.
@@awsomeman253 you can always just give them away to encourage people to garden and give them some tips. When covid hit I seeded 100 extra starters and gave them to neighbors. Several people offered to pay me but I took trade instead, one neighbor offered to help me take out the brick in my yard so I’d have more growing space and a couple others did some heavy lifting, moving things that I was going to pay someone to do. This year I’m going to sell the flower starters and give away 2 vegetable starters per family, anything over, they can buy. Not sure what to charge.
In September of 2021, I moved and broke down all the boxes from the move and stuck all the boxes, inside the biggest box. I was planning on buying some lumber, nails ect, until I seen your video on uses. Dan, you are a genius and I want to thank you for all your money saving information, on growing crops. I could have spent hundreds of dollars on just raised beds. Thanks again Dan, may God bless you and keep you is my prayer for you! 👍
I reuse 50- and 25-pound feed sacks as grow bags. The woven plastic fabric type need some drainage added, but last at least two seasons for me. I find them especially well suited to growing potatoes and sweet potatoes, rolling the tops down and filling partially with soil, unrolling as more soil is added. HUGE yields for such a small space, and very easy to harvest.
@@KCJohn316 Ask anyone who buys bags of feed for any animal. Even large dog food bags could work, if you wipe off the greasy inside. It doesn’t take long to have more bags than you need. I always felt bad if I didn’t at least reuse mine as trash bags.
Great idea. Just remembered my neighbor has about 20 milk creates in his garage he wants to get rid of, from the prevous owners. I might put a 7 gallon grow bag inside.
The unusual varieties is what ultimately got me into gardening. Started with Fall Gold raspberries and now I've gotten like a dozen raspberry/blackberry varieties alone not counting the dozens of other species we have.
@@whaiknot I'd recommend using inaturalist to source rare fruits from nearby. It'll be much more affordable and depending on where you are it should be possible to get really nice berries.
Dan! Your tips are saving my actual life right now! I In these times I've been trying to figure out how to grow more of what my family needs and the space that I have and with the amount of money that I have to spend and you are definitely hitting everything that I need to know.. And for that I am forever grateful.
I have just moved to an acreage with my son and although I have been gardening for years I am needing to stay up off the ground as much as I can, or I have to make a plan to get up, somehow. My new landlord has cattle and told me that i can use whatever i find, course I'll always ask first. I now have 10 old mineral tubs, loads of straw and my son brought home 2 wonderful large wood boxes to use for beds also. I've been gathering branches and sticks and cardboard for filler. I am so excited to continue to gardening and not have to get down on the ground, at least not much. Thanks for all of your advice.
Make sure you grab the nightcrawlers that you find too . They work great in the soil in your plants . I did it with my bucket gardening last year . Twigs , leaves and worms . It let me not need to use as much soil too . Happy gardening 🧑🌾
Wow! I saw your video in the nick of time. I was about to go out and spend $$$ on plastic totes. Instead, I ordered sand bags from TSC for $50. I am tickled beyond belief! Thank you!
Thank you so much. I have been staring at my plants for days now and wondering which UA-cam method to make a self watering container. Your video provided the answer. No carpentry tools needed.
I love chayote. One vine will het massive in hawaii. With no care pretty much never dies and when it does it just comes back like a weed from the ones that dropped on the ground. Another cool gourd is kabocha which is like a giant butter nut squash. And you can make instruments out of them.
BRILLIANT! I live on solid rock. I usually beg the local ranchers for their plastic feed buckets and also use my chicken feed bags but this is an additional alternative and you are not limited to the size you can make (depending on the size of your cardboard box). I will be using this!
Thank you so much! I am a new gardener and this is has been so helpful! People like you is what make the world a better place, by sharing your knowledge and encouraging people!
The boxes are a great idea. One year on my balcony I made a trough out of 1-inch pvc pipe and lined it with those bags and filled it with water. I placed bags of topsoil I got cheap at home depot and punched hundreds of tiny drain holes in the bottom of the dirtbags and placed them in the trough. The plants grew great. the water dried up every 3 days so no mosquitos.
Wow I'm surprised the title didn't try to imply that gardening stores are trying to trick me or don't want me to know something. I can't speak for others but I am more likely to watch videos with honest titles. Thank you for the great content and please keep the honest titles coming
I really loved the water spigot pulled out like that. If you needed to or wanted to, you could probably put a clothespin on it to hold a little back, or even tie it off with cordage. How fun! You could tier step them to water each other. Put your water lovers on top and ladder down. BRB, gotta go play outside. Thanks for the ideas.
Great idea. A couple of years ago I needed more room for Swiss chard seedlings and Ancho peppers. I used those heavy boxes some fruit and veg are in at Aldi. Placed in the garden area they worked as make shift raised beds. They become compostable after a couple years.
Great idea. I did this back in the late 60's but didn't think about making a drain hole. Thanks for sharing all your tips and tricks for economic gardening and home grown abundance. Dan H
Sweet Lord you are AWESOME!!! Can’t thank you enough for this posting as we are on a super tight budget here . Will help feed my family , love the tips ! New subscriber - sharing this info ! Thanks again - your a blessing !
Fantastic money saving tip! I have grabbed cardboard boxes a number of times when I need a temporary planter but I've never considered trying to make the box last longer by wrapping it!
Great ideas! I was just about to go buy a bunch of five gallon grow bags (and where I live, they are Not cheap). But this system offers so much more in the way of water control. Thanks for the info, the testing, and the video!
You can always use those re-usable grocery bags from Walmart or any grocery store. They are made from recyclable water bottles. Many people use them for growing plants and they are like a dollar a piece.
@@eastcoastwilly1373 Little concerned about plastic leeching and uv breakdown of the plastic. Ill have to check out what kind of plastic trashbags are made from.
WOW!! I can't thank you enough for this video! I finally made it to the country after years of dreaming of growing my own food, but I've been struggling with exactly how to do it. I was thinking of doing raised beds, but kept leaning towards containers while I figure out the best place for certain plants and become more experienced with gardening. I didn't know how I was going to afford decent-sized containers, and also didn't want my yard to look junky. Thanks to you, I now have a solution!! This is the first of your videos I've watched, but I am now subscribed to your channel and can't wait to see more! Thank you again!!
Excellent box design and, importantly, well described construction…I think this would absorb a bit of heat for early springtime starts in a cold frame, etc.
I love diy I planted potatoes in catfood n dogfood 40lb bags, azure standard 25lb bags in 5 gallon buckets, I used dollar tree containers, n egg cartons too
I took some shingles to the dump and apparently some landscapers had just left. They had dumped about 24 large pots. I just threw them in my truck and smiled all the way home!
I just used that method for my 3 kittens litter box. Of course without the holes. They are outside cats (friendly strays) I got fixed so I'm keeping them in my walk-in shower until they recover from their surgery since I don't have a real litter pan. I hadn't thought to cover boxes for potatoes so thanks.
I'm so glad to stumble upon your channel this morning. This is very clever way to gardening on a budget. Patio gardening to the green house & beyond. The possibilities.........
The burlap is more than I need, despite it's many uses. Can you recommend a smaller amount of burlap. Doesn't burlap have a strong odor? Can burlap be used as a seed barrier in a small garden bed?
This is ingenious! Thank you for sharing. I’m looking for large containers and was going to go with storage totes but I love that this is more cost effective and I already have these items on hand :)
I followed your link to amazon for the straw. I ordered yesterday and received it today. So happy for all the tips you give , very much appreciated. Take care and blessings to you and Alice.
You solved a container issue for me! I have only just started watching your channel, and I am hooked! Thank you for sharing your gardening expertise and ideas.
OMG what a brilliant idea and VERY cost effective. I sold my house and had to remove my whole garden so I am starting over again completely at my new location. Thank you for such a great idea. The drain whole is exceptional and brilliant.
Very good idea!Years ago,I made single season grow bags with old coffee bags,cut in half,and sewn at the bottom like the bottom of large soda bottles. I placed them on pallets,and put them in my mini greenhouse.If the bags would have held together,I could have used them next year.Oh well,we got vegies for cheap,and I got to scratch my gardening itch.I am going to try this!
great use of the cardboard boxes!! I have several I can do that with that are just laying around waiting for another move - excellent recycle tip. dont forget those styrofoam coolers also!! I was going to go get some of those until you said yours are cardboard. Sometimes I cant see the trees because the forest is far too engrossing! excellent drain. I am currently working on a smaller compost bucket with a screw on lid for my patio. I already have the caster wheels to spin it on and the old wood to knock together to set it up. I am so grateful for folks like you who post common sense stuff to make my life less expensive! you get my creative juices flowing. I have used those same smaller tubs - great for strawberries and other small crops. and I did finally give in and buy another portable sewing machine to sew my own grow bags! thanks for sharing :) lots of people are also using those tall, white, holey laundry baskets for strawberries. I see it everywhere now.
Wow that might help My budget for gardening this year I don't have burlap, but I have some tulle bolts on the way maybe I could wrap that around a box for uv protection. thank you so much what a good budget idea!😁💯❤
This is a fantastic idea from you and I am living in Jamaica 🇯🇲 which is sunny and hot all year round and I will be going this route as of now...thank you and God bless ❤
Brilliant. Now you should put an inverted pot inside to save potting mix and maintain a moist air pocket. Then daisy chain a bunch of boxes together via 1/4" drip irrigation to a 55 gallon barrel and set up a yogurt container float valve a la Dr. Kratky style.
I was thinking of something along the same concept, except maybe using a control bucket with float stop for setting the water level at about 3 inches and then chaining all the boxes together on a level surface. I would use the boxes as sub irrigated planters, with 4 inch perforated drain hose in the bottom to leave a 1 inch air gap in the drain hose. An overflow hole at about 3.5 inches in each box to prevent flooding from heavy rains. A simple rain barrel could supply the control bucket with water, no need to check water level on each individual box if chained together. No standing water in the boxes for mosquitoes to breed if used as sub irrigated planters. Like the idea of Kratky float to chain together boxes not on level ground, or if some boxes require other levels of water.
I was thinking more of putting a couple of used plastic Folger coffee cans in the bottom with holes in them to hold water for longer duration between watering.
Thank you so much. I have a lot of cardboard boxes. I plan on putting a larger garden in this year, what with the price of food these days. Thank you again! You have a new subscriber.
Thank you so much for this video. I was just sorting out pricing for all different shapes and sizes of pots when I now have everything in my garage. Thanks again!
I'm so happy I found your channel. I live in the city and have no yard at all. I have a deck and a paved area about the size of a parking space, so I will be using that area and your method here to get back to gardening! It's the best therapy there is! Thank you!
Thank you for making this video you saved me bunch of money. God Bless you my friend! I love watching your videos you give so much inspiration to people like me that doesn't have very much experience with gardening, being disable is hard to run all the time to buy groceries.
Thank you for this idea. I may use this idea to garden on my balcony. I can place the drainage hole so that it drips off of the sides of the balcony. I may add a compostable bag as a barrier between the trash bag & the soil.
Brilliant idea. I love how you made the drainage hole. I was thinking how is he gonna... and “wala”. I really love the garden tips, especially saving money cuz that is what its about and growing food that is healthy! Thank you
Thank you, I used those bags to keep my planters from freezing, but this really is very functional and free my money for soil, no more expensive containers, but already got some from last year at $27.00 for 6=162.00 from depot and some old bins from the house, later I bought 15 buckets from Walmart at $2.98 each at a cost of $45+ because I forgot how much I paid in taxes, so you now may see the BIG SAVING YOU MAY HAVE USING THIS IDEA, and I though I was doing my gardening on the cheap side because every pot is an average of $10.00 more or less. Thank you again, And I do have contractor bags from Costco and the cardboard boxes exactly like yours also from Costco. From now on my money will go for soil only that also is and average of $10.00 per 64 lbs bags, some more, some less but this year I do not know the new prices.
Wow. Great idea. I’m just seeing this now. What I’m going to do, I am going to use the bags that the birdseed comes in, instead of the sandbags , for the wicking container. I have a lot of these, and was trying to figure out how I should use them in the garden and you have just given me a great idea. Thank you very much.
Everyone thats wondering about the chemicals in the bags, gotta remember that most gardeners and major homestead and gardening youtubers use trashbags to make leaf mulch, and never said anything about it, so i think thats a green light. Watchout for root rot tho, dont over water them.
Just an FYI, chayote squash is a vine, so you will either want to trellis or use something for it to climb on just saying. I have been watching so many gardening videos and yours is one of the best 🌱🙋 I have planted it next to non-bearing trees, it climbs the trunk and out on the bottom limbs, and voila, you now have a food bearing tree...
Just wondering if you worry about the chemicals of the trash bag leaching into the soil etc.?👀 I like your helpful information and hints. Thank you for your time
My personal thinking is this: the chemicals typically are used to kill bacteria and after a while it will disappear. And your plants root system typically shoot downwards towards water source if your using the method in the video of watering from the bottom. Hope this helps.
What a great idea. With online ordering, I always have empty boxes. I was about to go purchase a bunch of totes for a wicking setup this year. Not after watching this video. Thank you for sharing.
thank you so much for your great low cost gardening box tips, raised garden box ideas , i wanted to try grow boxes n raised garden beds on retiremt fixed income, i thought if i had to buy expensive premade lumber or metal containers i never make make my gardening dream an reality, as soon spring comes n hopefully i get my younger kids to help we are one step closer to reality , gonna try save new tv n computer boxes i got for christmas for starters, now just have get heavy duty contractor bags , almost all set already got potting soil some, but also plan to use some sandy backyard soil too once cleaned n filtered it, thanks again for showing gardening ideas n tips on the cheap that doesnt cost arm n leg to make!!! mrs redeem bryan feb 2022
I did this and it worked great !!! They also lasted two seasons outside threw winter ( with snow ) ...yes eventually water got to the cardboard after two years but hey got me veggies while lasted for cheap cheap
I've Learned More about gardening on a budget than any other place online. It's my first growing season and I will continue to binge watch. Happy to learn and SUB...Thanks so much!
You are something else Buddy! Awesome! Really love the both you and your team work. I asked my husband to go on vacation at your home. To learn more gardening, but eat some of your wife's Asian cooking. I am sure with the variety of food you grow she cooks up a smorgasbord. Lol Be so Blessed Brother and Sister
Omg! You are the Goat 🐐 I'm so glad I saved all my Amazon boxes. All the other channels with expensive grow boxes are not it for me. I will get trash bags and burlap 2mar asap. Thank you so much for this video.❤❤❤q
This is how much space this saved Out of 26 qt size freezer bags ~ Making power from those 26 bags filled up a peanut jar of 40 oz. of tomato powder, Plus i got 2 pitchers of tomato juice for V8 drinks YUM i might have to refreeze the tomato juice back. To good to throw away. I don't know what else to do with it? other than drinking it, or making tomato soup out of the juice
I am grateful for fresh grown veggies & fruits from our garden each summer. I am thrilled to watch your ideas & tips Dan! Thank You, I look forward to learning more gardening brilliance! 🐝🦋🪴🍀
Thanks I used to line milk containers with plastic, I like your drainage system. This will be great for my Green house... BTW My heater is coming today to heat up my green house. I may need a second one but that is fine. Thanks. I have watched many videos but for some reason I don't get them all.
Nit to mention ,its just make you feel soo good, almost like yiu doing something that is integral part of being human.nithing more satisfying lime looking the plants getting bigger
A variation is to cut the bottom of the bag. Push in the bottom of the box to reinforce the sides. You can now create an open bottom container. I think putting the box in the bag and then taking the top and bottom of the bags and to line the inside might be good as it will make it triple thick(if the bag is big enough).
Now this is a brilliant idea. Pots are expensive and I am always looking for ways to plant whatever I have stolen from other people. Thank you for furthering my criminal career lol
I know this video is 2 yrs old, but I'm so glad I found it today. I can't afford containers for gardening, but I can get boxes from work and bags at the hardware store. thank you for sharing this.
I totally agree. I just found it yesterday and was so excited. I am trying to do an organic garden and it is just so expensive even starting with seeds. This will really help.
I paint mine as well to make them colorful
My wife found another benefit to seed starting at home. She sells the extra plant starts. She sold enough to pay for the seeds plus some last year.
How'd she do that?
I oversowed a lot this year lol
@@awsomeman253 you can always just give them away to encourage people to garden and give them some tips. When covid hit I seeded 100 extra starters and gave them to neighbors. Several people offered to pay me but I took trade instead, one neighbor offered to help me take out the brick in my yard so I’d have more growing space and a couple others did some heavy lifting, moving things that I was going to pay someone to do. This year I’m going to sell the flower starters and give away 2 vegetable starters per family, anything over, they can buy. Not sure what to charge.
@@kangakong , check your local nursery, if half size plant lower the price.
I give my extra seedlings to friends and family. Then get to hear how well their garden grows from plants I started.
Way to go! Nurseries are far too overpriced, been doing the same for years!
In September of 2021, I moved and broke down all the boxes from the move and stuck all the boxes, inside the biggest box.
I was planning on buying some lumber, nails ect, until I seen your video on uses.
Dan, you are a genius and I want to thank you for all your money saving information, on growing crops. I could have spent hundreds of dollars on just raised beds.
Thanks again Dan, may God bless you and keep you is my prayer for you! 👍
I reuse 50- and 25-pound feed sacks as grow bags. The woven plastic fabric type need some drainage added, but last at least two seasons for me. I find them especially well suited to growing potatoes and sweet potatoes, rolling the tops down and filling partially with soil, unrolling as more soil is added. HUGE yields for such a small space, and very easy to harvest.
Can regular folk get feed bags somewhere? Love that suggestion!
@@KCJohn316 Ask anyone who buys bags of feed for any animal. Even large dog food bags could work, if you wipe off the greasy inside. It doesn’t take long to have more bags than you need. I always felt bad if I didn’t at least reuse mine as trash bags.
I use my 45 lb size dog food bags for the excess junk mail...think I’ll now save them for planting. Thanks for a wonderful idea!
@@KCJohn316 AMAZON has burlap feed bags
Great idea!!!
Before I found this channel I was moping around about the cost of pots and containers … now I’m just excited!
Great idea. Just remembered my neighbor has about 20 milk creates in his garage he wants to get rid of, from the prevous owners. I might put a 7 gallon grow bag inside.
The milk crates would be good if you wanted to move the plants around.
You could even plant one crate and place on top of another for raised planters!
That box planter is genius!
Grow your own is a revolutionary hobby, truly empowering
The unusual varieties is what ultimately got me into gardening. Started with Fall Gold raspberries and now I've gotten like a dozen raspberry/blackberry varieties alone not counting the dozens of other species we have.
I so want to try berries. I can't imagine how satisfying it must be to harvest those.
@@whaiknot I'd recommend using inaturalist to source rare fruits from nearby. It'll be much more affordable and depending on where you are it should be possible to get really nice berries.
Dan! Your tips are saving my actual life right now! I In these times I've been trying to figure out how to grow more of what my family needs and the space that I have and with the amount of money that I have to spend and you are definitely hitting everything that I need to know.. And for that I am forever grateful.
Way before plastic totes were available when we camped your box w/plastic was what we put clothes and supplies in! Brings back happy memories!
I like the way you repurpose the cardboard box! Thank you!
I have just moved to an acreage with my son and although I have been gardening for years I am needing to stay up off the ground as much as I can, or I have to make a plan to get up, somehow. My new landlord has cattle and told me that i can use whatever i find, course I'll always ask first. I now have 10 old mineral tubs, loads of straw and my son brought home 2 wonderful large wood boxes to use for beds also. I've been gathering branches and sticks and cardboard for filler. I am so excited to continue to gardening and not have to get down on the ground, at least not much. Thanks for all of your advice.
Make sure you grab the nightcrawlers that you find too . They work great in the soil in your plants . I did it with my bucket gardening last year . Twigs , leaves and worms . It let me not need to use as much soil too . Happy gardening 🧑🌾
Thank you for this info. Brilliant! I felt like I couldn't start because I couldn't afford the containers and soil and seeds. This is perfect.
Wow! I saw your video in the nick of time. I was about to go out and spend $$$ on plastic totes. Instead, I ordered sand bags from TSC for $50. I am tickled beyond belief! Thank you!
This is genius. And I was just going to take all my boxes to the recycle. Definitely gonna try.
I made aquariums this way over 40 years ago for raising tropical fish. Works a treat.
Thank you for the low an cheap ways to do things at 65 an live on less than 500 a month you have given me amazing information.. Blessings
Thank you so much. I have been staring at my plants for days now and wondering which UA-cam method to make a self watering container. Your video provided the answer. No carpentry tools needed.
Genius! Can’t wait for my plants to be big enough to try. Thanks!
I love chayote. One vine will het massive in hawaii. With no care pretty much never dies and when it does it just comes back like a weed from the ones that dropped on the ground. Another cool gourd is kabocha which is like a giant butter nut squash. And you can make instruments out of them.
what an inspiration!, I love using easily found materials like this. great ideas thank you
I just realized your voice reminds me of the Motel 8 commercial guy. “And remember, we’ll leave the light on for you.”
Such savings and I love the burlap look….reminds me of the 100lbs sacks of potatoes dad use to deliver to his customers.
I have contractor bags. YESSS!!!
BRILLIANT! I live on solid rock. I usually beg the local ranchers for their plastic feed buckets and also use my chicken feed bags but this is an additional alternative and you are not limited to the size you can make (depending on the size of your cardboard box). I will be using this!
This is such a brilliant idea. Finally UA-cam has suggested something useful for me that I want to watch, and I subscribed. Thank you!
I just can't get enough of your videos. They're very addictive. Thanks for all you do to inspire us.
Thank you, thank you, thank you ! you make me feel like I can do anything! And inexpensively. On fixed income. So miss a garden.
Thank you so much! I am a new gardener and this is has been so helpful! People like you is what make the world a better place, by sharing your knowledge and encouraging people!
The drain is genius!
The boxes are a great idea. One year on my balcony I made a trough out of 1-inch pvc pipe and lined it with those bags and filled it with water. I placed bags of topsoil I got cheap at home depot and punched hundreds of tiny drain holes in the bottom of the dirtbags and placed them in the trough. The plants grew great. the water dried up every 3 days so no mosquitos.
Wow I'm surprised the title didn't try to imply that gardening stores are trying to trick me or don't want me to know something. I can't speak for others but I am more likely to watch videos with honest titles. Thank you for the great content and please keep the honest titles coming
I hate the ones that say I have been doing something wrong all my life.
I agree with you. At my age, I’m avoiding EVERYTHING that lies to me.
I really loved the water spigot pulled out like that. If you needed to or wanted to, you could probably put a clothespin on it to hold a little back, or even tie it off with cordage. How fun! You could tier step them to water each other. Put your water lovers on top and ladder down. BRB, gotta go play outside. Thanks for the ideas.
Great idea. A couple of years ago I needed more room for Swiss chard seedlings and Ancho peppers. I used those heavy boxes some fruit and veg are in at Aldi. Placed in the garden area they worked as make shift raised beds. They become compostable after a couple years.
Some good ideas here,living on a budget,these ways are very affordable and doable in my situation.
I do this and I use scrap lumber from discarded pallets to help set the form of the cardboard box. I love you drainage holes, so much better than mine
Great idea. I did this back in the late 60's but didn't think about making a drain hole. Thanks for sharing all your tips and tricks for economic gardening and home grown abundance. Dan H
Sweet Lord you are AWESOME!!! Can’t thank you enough for this posting as we are on a super tight budget here . Will help feed my family , love the tips ! New subscriber - sharing this info ! Thanks again - your a blessing !
Fantastic money saving tip! I have grabbed cardboard boxes a number of times when I need a temporary planter but I've never considered trying to make the box last longer by wrapping it!
You, Sir, are an absolute cast iron GENIUS.
I m subscribing.
Love your intro brother. Self empowerment through gardening. Sending good vibes from NM.
Great ideas! I was just about to go buy a bunch of five gallon grow bags (and where I live, they are Not cheap). But this system offers so much more in the way of water control. Thanks for the info, the testing, and the video!
You can always use those re-usable grocery bags from Walmart or any grocery store. They are made from recyclable water bottles. Many people use them for growing plants and they are like a dollar a piece.
@@eastcoastwilly1373 I save my bottles all my seeds go in the I get a 60p drink then reuse the bottle for seeds saves on trays lids and propagaters
@@eastcoastwilly1373 Little concerned about plastic leeching and uv breakdown of the plastic. Ill have to check out what kind of plastic trashbags are made from.
@East Coast Willy brilliant! I saw a video using Ikea bags, but I've got the grocery ones already. Definitely going to try, thankies!
WOW!! I can't thank you enough for this video! I finally made it to the country after years of dreaming of growing my own food, but I've been struggling with exactly how to do it. I was thinking of doing raised beds, but kept leaning towards containers while I figure out the best place for certain plants and become more experienced with gardening. I didn't know how I was going to afford decent-sized containers, and also didn't want my yard to look junky. Thanks to you, I now have a solution!! This is the first of your videos I've watched, but I am now subscribed to your channel and can't wait to see more! Thank you again!!
Excellent box design and, importantly, well described construction…I think this would absorb a bit of heat for early springtime starts in a cold frame, etc.
I love a good cheap and effective garden hack. Keep the thrifty garden tips coming!
I love diy I planted potatoes in catfood n dogfood 40lb bags, azure standard 25lb bags in 5 gallon buckets, I used dollar tree containers, n egg cartons too
Some clumping cat litter comes in big buckets too. I haven't planted in them yet, but they've been quite useful for all kinds of other things!
I took some shingles to the dump and apparently some landscapers had just left. They had dumped about 24 large pots. I just threw them in my truck and smiled all the way home!
Wow! lucky you!🥳
Thank you for your cut corner ideas...My kind of gardener!!
I just used that method for my 3 kittens litter box. Of course without the holes. They are outside cats (friendly strays) I got fixed so I'm keeping them in my walk-in shower until they recover from their surgery since I don't have a real litter pan. I hadn't thought to cover boxes for potatoes so thanks.
You are a genius! Thank you so much for sharing these ideas with us.
I am so happy I found your videos. They are very informative and useful. I absolutely love that you provide tips that are affordable. Thank you!
This is a awesome idea, my wife and I just moved to New house and she said she wanted to build garden beds..this idea will save me $$ for sure
Perfect timing!! Think moving boxes...oh boy! Going to do this. Thanks.
I'm so glad to stumble upon your channel this morning. This is very clever way to gardening on a budget. Patio gardening to the green house & beyond. The possibilities.........
The burlap is more than I need, despite it's many uses. Can you recommend a smaller amount of burlap. Doesn't burlap have a strong odor? Can burlap be used as a seed barrier in a small garden bed?
I like that word growing.Your garden will improve your personal power and outlook🎉
Can't wait to get started with this idea, it's cheap and there's nothing like home grown vegies, herbs and fruits
This is ingenious! Thank you for sharing. I’m looking for large containers and was going to go with storage totes but I love that this is more cost effective and I already have these items on hand :)
I followed your link to amazon for the straw. I ordered yesterday and received it today. So happy for all the tips you give , very much appreciated. Take care and blessings to you and Alice.
You solved a container issue for me! I have only just started watching your channel, and I am hooked! Thank you for sharing your gardening expertise and ideas.
OMG what a brilliant idea and VERY cost effective. I sold my house and had to remove my whole garden so I am starting over again completely at my new location. Thank you for such a great idea. The drain whole is exceptional and brilliant.
Dan, Thank you for all the cost saving ideas. It really helps those of us with tight budgets.
Very good idea!Years ago,I made single season grow bags with old coffee bags,cut in half,and sewn at the bottom like the bottom of large soda bottles. I placed them on pallets,and put them in my mini greenhouse.If the bags would have held together,I could have used them next year.Oh well,we got vegies for cheap,and I got to scratch my gardening itch.I am going to try this!
great use of the cardboard boxes!! I have several I can do that with that are just laying around waiting for another move - excellent recycle tip. dont forget those styrofoam coolers also!! I was going to go get some of those until you said yours are cardboard. Sometimes I cant see the trees because the forest is far too engrossing! excellent drain. I am currently working on a smaller compost bucket with a screw on lid for my patio. I already have the caster wheels to spin it on and the old wood to knock together to set it up. I am so grateful for folks like you who post common sense stuff to make my life less expensive! you get my creative juices flowing. I have used those same smaller tubs - great for strawberries and other small crops. and I did finally give in and buy another portable sewing machine to sew my own grow bags! thanks for sharing :)
lots of people are also using those tall, white, holey laundry baskets for strawberries. I see it everywhere now.
I love the burlap around the box that will look very nice in the garden.
Wow that might help My budget for gardening this year I don't have burlap, but I have some tulle bolts on the way maybe I could wrap that around a box for uv protection. thank you so much what a good budget idea!😁💯❤
This is a fantastic idea from you and I am living in Jamaica 🇯🇲 which is sunny and hot all year round and I will be going this route as of now...thank you and God bless ❤
Brilliant. Now you should put an inverted pot inside to save potting mix and maintain a moist air pocket. Then daisy chain a bunch of boxes together via 1/4" drip irrigation to a 55 gallon barrel and set up a yogurt container float valve a la Dr. Kratky style.
I was thinking of something along the same concept, except maybe using a control bucket with float stop for setting the water level at about 3 inches and then chaining all the boxes together on a level surface. I would use the boxes as sub irrigated planters, with 4 inch perforated drain hose in the bottom to leave a 1 inch air gap in the drain hose. An overflow hole at about 3.5 inches in each box to prevent flooding from heavy rains. A simple rain barrel could supply the control bucket with water, no need to check water level on each individual box if chained together. No standing water in the boxes for mosquitoes to breed if used as sub irrigated planters. Like the idea of Kratky float to chain together boxes not on level ground, or if some boxes require other levels of water.
I was thinking more of putting a couple of used plastic Folger coffee cans in the bottom with holes in them to hold water for longer duration between watering.
I wish I knew what you meant, but I do better with pics
@@molliescreations4497 I’m with you…. I love the brilliance of this but do need pictures of what was mentioned above.
Example please. 😍
Thank you so much. I have a lot of cardboard boxes. I plan on putting a larger garden in this year, what with the price of food these days. Thank you again! You have a new subscriber.
Thank you so much for this video. I was just sorting out pricing for all different shapes and sizes of pots when I now have everything in my garage. Thanks again!
Very useful information! Thank you!
I'm so happy I found your channel. I live in the city and have no yard at all. I have a deck and a paved area about the size of a parking space, so I will be using that area and your method here to get back to gardening! It's the best therapy there is! Thank you!
Is this legit? Do you really do giveaways?
@@lizperrella666 No, that is spam.
Thank you for making this video you saved me bunch of money. God Bless you my friend! I love watching your videos you give so much inspiration to people like me that doesn't have very much experience with gardening, being disable is hard to run all the time to buy groceries.
thank you im going to try this with potatoes, the bag method is similar so im hoping with success
Lovely project! And a great use for boxes. Any eclectic container that can hold earth is a must in my yard. Please keep the videos coming 🤩🤩
Thank you for this idea. I may use this idea to garden on my balcony. I can place the drainage hole so that it drips off of the sides of the balcony. I may add a compostable bag as a barrier between the trash bag & the soil.
Brilliant idea. I love how you made the drainage hole. I was thinking how is he gonna... and “wala”. I really love the garden tips, especially saving money cuz that is what its about and growing food that is healthy! Thank you
Voila!
@@pamh.5705 there it is!
Thank you, I used those bags to keep my planters from freezing, but this really is very functional and free my money for soil, no more expensive containers, but already got some from last year at $27.00 for 6=162.00 from depot and some old bins from the house, later I bought 15 buckets from Walmart at $2.98 each at a cost of $45+ because I forgot how much I paid in taxes, so you now may see the BIG SAVING YOU MAY HAVE USING THIS IDEA, and I though I was doing my gardening on the cheap side because every pot is an average of $10.00 more or less. Thank you again, And I do have contractor bags from Costco and the cardboard boxes exactly like yours also from Costco. From now on my money will go for soil only that also is and average of $10.00 per 64 lbs bags, some more, some less but this year I do not know the new prices.
Wow. Great idea. I’m just seeing this now. What I’m going to do, I am going to use the bags that the birdseed comes in, instead of the sandbags , for the wicking container. I have a lot of these, and was trying to figure out how I should use them in the garden and you have just given me a great idea. Thank you very much.
Everyone thats wondering about the chemicals in the bags, gotta remember that most gardeners and major homestead and gardening youtubers use trashbags to make leaf mulch, and never said anything about it, so i think thats a green light. Watchout for root rot tho, dont over water them.
Just an FYI, chayote squash is a vine, so you will either want to trellis or use something for it to climb on just saying. I have been watching so many gardening videos and yours is one of the best 🌱🙋 I have planted it next to non-bearing trees, it climbs the trunk and out on the bottom limbs, and voila, you now have a food bearing tree...
Just wondering if you worry about the chemicals of the trash bag leaching into the soil etc.?👀 I like your helpful information and hints. Thank you for your time
I was thinking the same thing.
I was thinking the same thing.
My personal thinking is this: the chemicals typically are used to kill bacteria and after a while it will disappear. And your plants root system typically shoot downwards towards water source if your using the method in the video of watering from the bottom. Hope this helps.
Idk what trash bags you use but mine don’t contain chemicals. It’s a bag for trash. That’s it.
@@tylerhorton9807 Everything contains chemicals 😂
What a great idea. With online ordering, I always have empty boxes. I was about to go purchase a bunch of totes for a wicking setup this year. Not after watching this video.
Thank you for sharing.
I just made my first self watering box and it went well. Thanks for posting your idea. This will work great in my garden. I really appreciate it!
thank you so much for your great low cost gardening box tips, raised garden box ideas ,
i wanted to try grow boxes n raised garden beds on retiremt fixed income, i thought if i had to buy expensive premade lumber or metal containers i never make make my gardening dream an reality, as soon spring comes n hopefully i get my younger kids to help we are one step closer to reality , gonna try save new tv n computer boxes i got for christmas for starters, now just have get heavy duty contractor bags , almost all set already got potting soil some, but also plan to use some sandy backyard soil too once cleaned n filtered it, thanks again for showing gardening ideas n tips on the cheap that doesnt cost arm n leg to make!!! mrs redeem bryan feb 2022
What a great idea. Perfect for my budget. Thank you.
I did this and it worked great !!! They also lasted two seasons outside threw winter ( with snow ) ...yes eventually water got to the cardboard after two years but hey got me veggies while lasted for cheap cheap
I've Learned More about gardening on a budget than any other place online. It's my first growing season and I will continue to binge watch. Happy to learn and SUB...Thanks so much!
You are something else Buddy! Awesome! Really love the both you and your team work. I asked my husband to go on vacation at your home. To learn more gardening, but eat some of your wife's Asian cooking. I am sure with the variety of food you grow she cooks up a smorgasbord. Lol Be so Blessed Brother and Sister
Omg! You are the Goat 🐐
I'm so glad I saved all my Amazon boxes.
All the other channels with expensive grow boxes are not it for me.
I will get trash bags and burlap 2mar asap.
Thank you so much for this video.❤❤❤q
TFS! Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy, Inspiration and Abundance!" - Hope( & Mark)!
I love your videos and I saw how you meet your wife beautiful blessings to both of you may God blessed you with a long life together
This is how much space this saved Out of 26 qt size freezer bags ~ Making power from those 26 bags filled up a peanut jar of 40 oz. of tomato powder, Plus i got 2 pitchers of tomato juice for V8 drinks YUM i might have to refreeze the tomato juice back. To good to throw away. I don't know what else to do with it? other than drinking it, or making tomato soup out of the juice
I am grateful for fresh grown veggies & fruits from our garden each summer. I am thrilled to watch your ideas & tips Dan! Thank You, I look forward to learning more gardening brilliance! 🐝🦋🪴🍀
Thanks I used to line milk containers with plastic, I like your drainage system. This will be great for my Green house... BTW My heater is coming today to heat up my green house. I may need a second one but that is fine. Thanks. I have watched many videos but for some reason I don't get them all.
I am amazed with how you think of these ideas!!!
I just found ur channel about a month ago and I just want to thank you your content is truly awesome!!!
Nit to mention ,its just make you feel soo good, almost like yiu doing something that is integral part of being human.nithing more satisfying lime looking the plants getting bigger
A variation is to cut the bottom of the bag. Push in the bottom of the box to reinforce the sides. You can now create an open bottom container. I think putting the box in the bag and then taking the top and bottom of the bags and to line the inside might be good as it will make it triple thick(if the bag is big enough).
Now this is a brilliant idea. Pots are expensive and I am always looking for ways to plant whatever I have stolen from other people. Thank you for furthering my criminal career lol