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Use a Child's Wading Pool as a Garden

Use A Child's Wading Pool As A Garden

Use A Child's Wading Pool As A Garden

My grandchildren out-grew their little pool, I didn't want to throw it away so I made a small vegetable garden out of it. I am disabled and I can pull my lawn chair up to the pool and work in it. Best of all, I never had any weeds in it all year. After the Spring and Summer veggies. I just planted some green peas and bush beans for Fall. They were wonderful.

By Sharon from Van Buren, Arkansas

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08/30/2011

Would it be possible to plant tomatoes in a pool?

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08/30/2011

Will be searching everywhere for a kiddie pool! What a great idea. Thanks for sharing, oh, and have a wonderful day.

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08/29/2011

This is a neat hint. We have clay soil - great for the farmers, but tough on a 64 year old disabled person. I will be haunting garage sales and trash heaps. Oh, for joy! I'll still keep trying to improve the garden soil, but I will have my little treasure! Thanks again.

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03/29/2009

I started investigating an alternate garden this year as our old garden area was destroyed by a wildfire last year. We had stared with the idea of the "feed sack" garden but this idea seems alot easier. Our growing season is very short so we don't need the depth for root vegtables. Does anyone know what a load of gravel or of dirt would cost?

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03/09/2009

Great job, Mom #2! (this is her daughter-in-law) lol. I will be doing a few of these this year too. Miracle-Gro has come out with an Organic potting/garden soil I am going to use.

By
02/21/2009

Wonderful, what a winning tip! Love the recycle, reuse aspect and the veggies and the fun you can have doing the garden.

Thank you so much for sharing. I will proudly do this in Spring!

By
02/21/2009

What kind of soil do you put in this pool? Soil in the bags is not cheap and I'm not up to digging up dirt to fill the pool.

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02/18/2009

What a wonderful idea! This is also a good idea for those who have poor soil and can't garden "as is" and for those who rent and don't want to dig up their landlord's property. Plus the fact that you were able to recycle. Good for you!

By Mary (Guest Post) 02/16/2009

Fabulous idea! You certainly have a green thumb!

By CindyM56 (Guest Post) 02/14/2009

Fantastic idea, Sharon! I too am disabled and would love to be able to garden. Now I just might!

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02/14/2009

This is a great idea! I've got one of thos plastic ones. Do I punch holes in it? Course, by now it probably has some holes!

By Karen L. (Guest Post) 02/13/2009

I did this last year. I put tomato plants in it. It did good! I had used it the year before for my ducks and geese and a big tree limb fell in it and pierced it during a late summer storm. So I already had drainage in it too!

By Karen M. (Guest Post) 02/12/2009

I absolutely love your idea. I buy one of those every year and hate throwing it away, now I don't have to. I can use one and then each next year pass along a micro garden to someone else. You know this would be great for people with disabilities. I mean they are small, you could put it up on a picnic table and it would be at higher level for them. Great idea. Thank you

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02/12/2009

What a great use of an otherwise useless item! Wonder how many of these go to the landfills every year.

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