In article , Pat Meadows
wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:32:16 -0800, (Jan
Flora) wrote:

Oh, heck. I have a bunch of 5 gallon buckets and have an extremely
high tolerance for, um, things that my more upwardly mobile
[...]

Thanks for the feedback : )


I also found 5-gallon pots too small for (regular-sized)
tomatoes.

Last year, we had a tomato growing in a pot on the deck -
accidentally, rather. I'd not intended it to be
there...anyway, it was a Yellow Pear (cherry tomato) and it
got HUGE. I was watering it three times a day!

So we transplanted it into a Rubbermaid storage tub (holds
22 gallons). We had drilled holes in the bottom first, for
drainage. The tomato grew happily enough in that.

The plant was about 5' tall when we transplanted it, and I
worried that would kill it: nope. Didn't even make it
hesitate...

So - maybe you could pick some of these up cheap at garage
sales? Sales in stores such as Wal-Mart?


Pat

I have a bunch of slabs from our sawmill, to build planter boxes
and beds with. (I usually burn the slabs.) I can build some big
planters for the 'mater plants.

I make planters for next to my door out of firewood rounds -- fire
up the chainsaw, cut the 4 edges off the round, throw the middle part
in the woodstove, nail the outer edges back together, nail some screen
to the bottom and you have a free, cool looking little planter. I always
plant two leaf lettuce and one pansy in those. Edible landscaping : )

I keep my potting soil in a Rubbermaid tub and store it under my bunk.
That way, my SO thinks it's full of summer/winter clothing and doesn't
give me any $%^@ for keeping "dirt" in the house, and I can repot my
houseplants as needed, even in the wintertime.

Did you like the Yellow Pear 'mater?

Jan