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Use A Child's Wading Pool As A Garden
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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.
By
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 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.
We do not have a place in our backyard to plant a "regular" garden, but we did have room on our patio deck to do something. I came up with an idea for a small garden using a child's plastic swimming pool. I poked holes all over the bottom for drainage, added fertilizer and soil, and planted tomato and pepper plants. I did the same thing using an old plastic barrel-cut in half lengthwise for basil, cilantro, and radishes.
As you can see, all my "garden" products are growing well.
By LisaE from WI
Update: We have had extreme heat the last week, and I wanted to show how much my tomatoes, green peppers, and herbs have grown and that using a plastic pool really does work for those with limited backyard space. I just took these pictures.
Shared on: 07/19/2011
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