After Seeing This EVERYONE Will Be Buying Blue Plastic Kiddie Pools! 

That was my thought about the kiddie pools - when your area gets a serious downpour, it could kill your plants (by drowning the roots) if there isn't at least a couple of holes maybe an inch or so up from the bottom on the sides of the pools.

The holes that Dan drilled for the zip ties should be sufficient for drainage.

Mosquito dunks are safe for veggie gardens??

@@javier0304 Nope, too HIGH UP on the kiddie pool. Roots need OXYGEN. If you have a deluge of rain - hell, my area often can get two inches of rain in an hour or two (not to mention when we get hail in abundance) and where he drilled those holes, the majority of a plants' roots would be water-bound for days without a couple of holes drilled low, maybe an inch or two from the bottom of the kiddie pool to allow excess rain to drain out. You have an opinion, but I'm basing what I mentioned on facts learned from about 50 years of gardening in many different methods, the most current one being hydroponics which is the best way to explain not drowning roots and the oxygenation those roots need for the plants to thrive. Personally, if I'm going to grow outside and want it high enough not to bend over to tend my garden, I use haybale gardening. Very easy to set up to and can grow amazing amounts of fruits/veggies.

​@@cathrynmartin4395 Gee, you should do your own show!

What kind of wood chips do you use?

@@kdc1153 Tree companies dump their wood chips at a place I have permission to go. Some of the chips are 20 years old. They make a great soil amendment for the sand we have here. Sometimes you can catch a tree truck and ask them if they will dump a load on your property.

I have 5 pools also, for my flower beds, works great✌️

Can you send me more details on how to do this? Your idea sounds great…neater n easier.

If your move is far away, use caution. I moved an 8 hour drive (NY to VA), and it cost a lot of money. I ended up leaving most of my beautiful rose garden behind😔. But, I'm having fun rebuilding. I say this because If you're moving 1 hour away, its all good to make several trips, or pay for a mover to do so, but if it's longer, it will cost so much. I am LOVING this pool idea. I considered growing a pool full of grasses for my birds, cats, etc. I have a bunch of grass seeds(oat, wheat, rye, fescue, timothy) and i want my animals to enjoy them fully grown. This idea is wonderful because there are no weeds in between! I leave my cloth bags on top of feed bags or tarps because of weeds. I hope you have a wonderful time turning the page, and going on to the latest chapter of life, in a rural setting. It has been the best thing I ever could have done. And if you're in the 'burbs, you will probably make a crap ton of money selling your house.

Smells like victory

Steve,😂😂😂😂😂me too!

Did you do this? Just now watching it..

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Love love love the keyhole garden idea!!

I use one for dirt bath for my feathered family and a pool for the ducks.

I use them for my ducks, easy for them to get in and easy to dump the water out and replace nice and fresh.

Umbrella is a great idea.

Don't the kitchen scraps attract mice and other critters? We have deer, raccoons, foxes, cats, etc.

This sounds fascinating I'd love to see how it's done.

I seen someone do the concrete kiddy pools on RU-vid a while back, pretty cool idea!

Excellent answer to vastly improve the use of kiddie pools! Thanks! I've seen the videos of making/covering planters with cloth and concrete. Really, really nice!

Awesome tip! Can you explain what you mean with the 2 kiddie pools together? Do you mean that he stacked them so that one was a planter, with drain holes, and one was used under it to catch any overflow water (like how house plants have a saucer/drain tray)?

I believe it was talking about making a mold for the cement planter. If you look up papercrete or hypertuffa you can see what the mold process is using two bowls. It would be almost the same except this is taking a cloth and brushing thinned cement on it. Or possibly pouring it in the bottom pool. Then you press the top pool into the cement. When it's set, you take the pools off. Then you have a pool shaped cement pot.@@pbandjelly1311

Great ideas!

Also, I have seen some great uses of plastic storage containers, the kind used for storing clothing, decorations ect used for growing things. They also can be put on old chairs for height if bending down is a problem. They can also be found discarded in the garbage.

5 gallon food containers are wonderful. Planted tomatoes for years in them. Got them free at a local pizzeria!! Just ask !

You tube has reconfigured, it has knocked many subscriptions off. Check them all, this might not be only one you’ve been unsubscribed from. These are all great ideas and Intend on incorporating most into my gardens. We’re “ redneck gardeners in backwoods too, and proud of it!!!

If it looks like shit, then it gets put in the backyard. To keep people out of my front yard, I grow thorns.

Sounds great! I hate throwing away kitchen scraps!!! If you ask my kid, I hate throwing away anything! 😎☺😄😃

Not weird that the food tastes better - it’s fresher.

​@@shirleymize7629 Also no toxic pesticides or other chemicals makes all the difference.

Sorry for silly question:where I can find builders bags?

@@svitlanadmytruk7003 just google them, in europe there are a lot around

We’re both disabled too, my partner worse off than I am for doing gardening though cause she has bad knees. I built her several 4 foot by 4 foot tables 36” high so she can stand at the tables and either plant or harvest whatever she’s grown? Tables I made out of 4x8 with a wood floor and had 4-4x4 legs underneath. So there’s almost 8” of dirt to plant in. Those tables lasted 3 years. I built better tables this year out of waterproof plywood covered in plastic laminate that should last least 15-20 years! Built my chicken coop going on 4 years ago out of the same waterproof plywood with the plastic laminate and it still looks like brand new!

@@ghostridergale Thank you very much for all the information I will try and purchase some plastic laminate to cover my posts with. I too had to reduce my garden beds to 4 x 4 after my longterm 4 x 5 beds collapsed last season. Shalom!

If can get someone to help you and pick up wooden pallets( free), 2/3 high should do it for a wheel chair..

Nice! Using pallets is a cheap, easy way to get that height!

I'm curious to know how they did. I read they need heavy, compact soil in order to form a tuber...otherwise they're just very thin.🤔

How do you start your sweet potatoes slips? I read you need at least two eyes... how do you dry the cut sides?

@@noeldeal8087 I have mine laying on their sides in a plastic container in potting soil in the garage. I keep the soil moist. You won't always necessarily see the 'eye' on the sweet potato, but after about 3 weeks or so you should start seeing a little growth. I just snap mine off when they get to be around 6 inches tall. Pull the lower leaves off and stick the end in water. You will start to see root growth rather quickly. You can plant them straight away without the whole water step if you'd like. I like to know that they are rooting so I do this step. :) I start planting in the middle of the pool or container (I've used cardboard boxes too!) and then add more slips as I get them. When my containers are about full I just plant the whole dang tater! LOL

@happy2cya70 I reiterate: do your sweets plump up, or are they skinny?

​@@dwarfhernandez6636 ...rude

Mosquito dunks work great too and it's natural

In Arizona our mosquitos are not height-limited--how is that even possible??

​@@liberty8424 i think they mean so the water level is under the gravel. So the mosquitoes can't lay eggs in the water.

@@betsyropp561 I'm in Arizona, mosquitoes hear grow anywhere.!

In my experience they can lay in gravel and even your damp lawn

Great idea!!! I was thinking of pool noodles too. Thank you!😊

My pool noodles disintegrate after a while. Plus that would defeat the natural look he’s going for.

@@kathleenhall6346 the noodles are under the burlap. UV rays will rapidly deteriorate nonprotected items.

Or pvc pipe

@@chia_pet7121 correct. Slit the pool noodles, lay the burlap on the lip like it's gonna lay in the water, slide the slit of the pool noodle over the burlap and lip of the pool and then pull the burlap back over to cover the pool noodle. Alternatively, you could just silicone the burlap to the inside.

Coffee roasters, do you mean like a Tim Hortons coffee shop?

Brilliant 👌

Solid idea.

Ditto!

Guppies? Huh?

A moat for the plants! Lol.

Poison blue plastic water, sounds great for dinner

@@alymshep explain please, I don't get your point. What part of " up out of the water" did you not understand.

That ground hog makes a great Sunday dinner.Thank the lord and pass the bisquits.

Great idea !!!

Your talking about the cloth bags right?

@@jstar1000 Yes, the blue cloth bags.

@@omachinancy I picked up similar type bags at Dollar Tree in the baby section (totes, $1.25/ea).

@@sheilasprinkle7045 But they need to be the original blue bags. It's the material that it's made of that is what you need. Those other ones don't even feel the same. But, I don't know what you bought. Once you put them in the water, they soak up water and feed the roots and keeps the soil moist. I never need to add water to the bag itself!

I'm with you, I like the blue! I think I'm going to run down to the store and buy a purple one too lol!

I thought the blue pools looked very pretty.

That is a fact…so make sure it is stamped with the number 2! Otherwise, it’s not safe for food.

@@pdaby123 The number identifies the plastic resin only, not whether the product is food grade. Other plastics may be food grade (#5, polypropylene, is common as it's microwave safe), and any plastic object can fail to be food grade for reasons having nothing to do with the particular plastic it's made of. If a product is sold for use with food, it may carry a food grade symbol depicting a knife, spoon, and fork in a circle. Another food grade indicator looks like a goblet and fork side-by-side. If you want more information, there's a Wikipedia article called "Food contact materials" that covers the topic in more detail than I have.

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Thank you so much for this information. 💛

Ya he obviously doesn't know this.

Thanks for the idea

Oh for watering easily. NEAT!

@@nskimharris Yes. I put the grow bags in the pools and then put the water in the pools and let it soak into the bags. Works great.

Wish I thought of that last year with eight pups!

I have always wanted to do that after reading an ancient aquarium book that came out before there were pumps etc. A gentleman had raised them in an old clawfoot bathtub in his back yard. I love aquariums and gardening,! I wish I had the man power and money to install a set up to grow fish for food, so Im not the only barbarian eh?

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It’s funny how you used fish and chips in the same comment. 😊

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My mom used to grow Lilly pads in a kiddy pool and she kept gold fish in there. They would get huge.

thank you for your sweet ass advice!!!!!!!!!😅 i meant this message for the creator but im going to read your comment too

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I buy only the blue kiddie pools now, I bought some pink ones last year and the sun faded them out really bad, tbe blue are still looking great after 5 years, now I will try other colors if I can find them, the teal ones sound awesome for my flower beds 🫶✌️🌻

This is an awesome idea. It might work for other spreading crops like comfrey.

If burying, put gravel down under it for better drainage of water.

@@barbarawehmeyer1274 good point 🙂

As a long time Floridian we typically grow in the winter. Summer heat is too much for most vegetables.

Giggling as I read this, because we use them (also here in soFL) as additional watering stations for livestock during the summer. Same thing - we may get a couple years, but they break down more quickly in South Florida.

They last a little longer here in coastal AL near the FL panhandle. The UV/Radiation rays are killers anymore with any plastic...even the ABS plastic lawn chairs/furniture. But I've had to start planting my garden (I use raised beds & huge plastic tubs (cattle mineral tubs) in partial shade as things you used to plant in full sun now get burned to a crisp. Started this several years ago when my tomato & bell pepper plants literally FRIED in the full sun (leaves were crispy). When I get sunburned working in the SHADE...something just ain't right anymore with things, if you know what I mean!

@@DeepSouthBamaGRITS I am sure your winters are a bit colder than ours, but we grow tomatoes in the winter. I definitely think there have been more uv rays. Our tomatoes got sunburned this year. Not the plants, the actual tomatoes. We are almost finished with them for the year, although I have a few in mostly shade that are still holding on. Once the temps and humidity get too high, they will also be finished. I have also found that the gray tubs from walmart last pretty well. Don't use the clear ones, though.

@@weegardenhomestead805 I'm in grow zone 8b (almost 9) and we can usually grow tomatoes til our 1st frost which is NORMALLY in December/January. With the right variety we can grow thru the summer but our heat/humidity shuts down production. If I grow an indeterminate variety I can prune them back once the heat/humidity shuts them down and they will continue to grow and start producing again for the fall. We had a massive heat wave several months this past summer along with a severe drought & lost most all veggie harvests as the UV rays was worse than the heat/drought. My tomatoes came back as usual and were producing tomatoes when we had an unexpected frost/freeze in Oct. I had covered my tomatoes & peppers (that I had also pruned back) and they survived the one night freeze/frost but the November one got the tomatoes. I dig up my bell peppers and put in pots in the greenhouse to plant again the following year. That way I get a head start with pepper production by having an established plant with a good root system. Our spring came WAY too early (in Jan this year) so everything was all messed up with planting, fruit trees blooming & setting fruit early. Then we had another unexpected freeze in March going from temps near 80(F) down to wind chill temp of 21(F)! I covered everything I possibly could but it wiped out my wild huckleberries & blueberries that were already turning from pink to blue. Literally burned the berries like they were freeze-dried, EVEN HEAVILY COVERED! It got the leaves (for the 6th time since October) on all my fig trees & killed 3 that were well-established & fruiting trees. Two did come back from the roots but one never came back. My fig trees have yet to fully recover as they had baby figs with that freeze. They really took a big hit being knocked back so many times in 6 months. It beats all I've ever seen with the warm/cold, warm/cold weather we've had that is NOT NORMAL for our area. So no veggies were harvested last summer (except for a few fresh-picked meals but nothing to put back), the Christmas freeze took out my winter garden completely (except for my garlic & onions) so no winter harvests and now no fruit harvests this year. Veggie garden that I started planting in January with my potatoes (I've already harvested) is looking good, so far. Our temps are much cooler than normal, tho, so everything is growing slower. Not sure yet if we are going to continue this cooler pattern and have a LONGER GROWING SEASON or it turn off hot as blue blazes like it did last summer and everything burns up. Only time will tell. That is UNREAL that your tomatoes got sunburned but I don't doubt it after all I've seen that is unusual with our temps. Guess I'm going to have to start to learn new gardening techniques I've used for over 30 yrs & adapt to new techniques. Praying that going from La Nina back to El Nino is not going to accelerate hurricane season this year. Be blessed, be safe & happy gardening & bountiful harvests!

Deep South Bama Grits, I appreciated your entry so much. I live in Gulfport, MS & was in FL during the winter mo’s. This Spring I have had multiple different ornamental plants that have been in my yard for 20 yrs in different places not leaf out this Spring. I could not figure out what was going on. It must have been the warn/ freezing cycle you described. That is the reason I don’t grow early blueberries, only mid season. We’ll have to see if I get any this yr. Learned a lot from your comment.

How big are sand bags by volume? What kind of plants have you grown in them?

@@caroblue7988 14x26, roll up to suit your desired pot 'size' .. especially nice for trees with deep tap roots. We grow pecan, hazel, redbud, and black locust, with more on the way. Bare root sales are done for the season, but we still have some nice horticulture veggies left for this year - edible flowers, heirloom corn, and storage gourds

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry thanks!

You need to have more kids now. It is rather like buying Carter's clothing.

You asked what to plant. Much depends on your purpose, food or ornamental? Either way, ask the plant nursery for "shallow root" items. The pools aren't very deep. Potato is great for setting in a deep bag at the center with small bags around the base. While the pool itself is filled with water, you can use a wicking system for water sensitive plants.

great idea

Putting holes in the sides of the pools/pots a few inches above the bottom reduces too much water trapped in the pools/pots that could drown your plants

Kiddie pools saved our garden from the drought last year. We were in the process of making raised beds and needed something to keep the plants moist until we had finished them. Our tomatoes flourished! We have several sizes of pools, some for plants in pots and some for our ducks to swim inside. We will be using the pools again this year as we had so much success.

what are your grow bags made of?

Thats what I was thinking! I'm not a fan of the blue either loll....glad you said this as well ❤

That's a great idea.

don't they hop out

A lady said she split a mosquito dunk in half and put it in the water and had no mosquitos.

I put rocks and sand in the water....and no mosquitos so far.

place grow bags inside the pools and nice mineralized desert sand around them to nourish your plants each time you water.....place drainage holes on sides of the pools (height of holes depends on what you are planting or how often you want to water)