A review of wicking tub growing with a couple changes. For questions and/or comments, call Leon's Garden Center, 580-564-2166 or text Leon at 580-564-5909. Thanks for watching and happy gardening.
Thank you so much. You're obviously a very busy man, but to offer to give us help on an individual basis is almost unheard of these days. You're one of my heroes.
My Oklahoma farmer grandparents grew up during the Great Depression. They taught us a lot about not being wasteful. Watching you warms my heart and brings back memories. Putting your self-watering container concepts together with what I learned from them has helped me get back to my roots at a time when these lessons have become very important. Thank you, sir.
"We can not get our bulk like we used to before covid and marijuana here in Oklahoma". I literally laughed out loud. So happy to see you again! I've been checking your channel periodically hoping to find new videos from you. 😂😁
Thank you, Mr. Leon! You have inspired me to plant 15 new wicking tubs this year. I have radish, carrots, bunching onions and English peas growing like gangbusters.
It's great to see the evolution of a genius idea over time. As long as the principals are observed, there are a lot of applications possible. This is the greatest way to grow! I'm a believer!
Thank you Leon!! Just made my first tub yesterday with my 8 year old daughter with material I already had laying around. She's excited to grow something.
Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, and love all over the world, I would love 💚us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. Where are you from if I may ask?
Thank you so much Leon & Judy! We truly appreciate all your hard work & your willingness to help others grow food. These are great ideas & show anyone can grow some delicious food! Thank you!!!
now that you have commited yourself to more episodes we get more knowledge of what to and how to grow survival food;;;;enjoy all your episodes thumbs up here and keep em comin
Mr Leon, you are my hero. Love your can do attitude and lessons on using whatever you can find to grow. I have put all of what you've shown me into practice. Thanks so much.
Thank you Mr Leon! You remind me of my Grandmother always finding a use for everything. “Repurpose”, reuse, make do, wear it out! Thanks for the ideas! God bless!
I love the improvement of pipe and spout to drain. I've used milk jugs and water bottles, and my drain holes do get plugged up sometimes. I have used this method two years now. I saved so much water these 2 years. Bless your heart Mr. Leon.
Glad to see you are still giving good info for everybody. The powers that be decided to not show your site whenever I get onto youtube. I was going thru my subscriptions and clicked on your link and now you are back in my daily rotation of who gets seen. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Leon, I really appreciate you - you remind me so much of my sweet grandpa! Years ago he taught me not to waste and be creative! Thanks for sharing your wisdom❤
I learned this from you a couple of years ago. this old disabled lady thanks you for sharing. it lets me garden more, with more production in less space and saved water and effort.
Thank you Leon for another fine video! You are truly a kind helpful special man to make these videos and offer help to someone that might be struggling! I admire you!
Thank you, Leon. It is so good to see you posting again. I agree that we all need to learn how to grow our own food. Everything is so expensive. Do you have any updates on the plant food that we should use?
Making the pipe go through the overflow is good idea. Last year I almost drowned a tomato plant 10 ft tall . It's leaves started turning yellow. The 30 gal tote sides were bulging and I figured out the soil had plugged up the overflow. I clean it out and water gushes out. Needless to say I didn't water for almost a month, slowly the leaves turned green again and the tomato began to flower and grow again. 🥴 Now I just need to figure out how to install one this year since they're already done
So happy to see the laundry basket. Have a bunch of laundry baskets from a storage system I used in my last home. When I was moving, used them to pack things in. Didn't have any weed barrier so I lined the baskets with cardboard from moving boxes to plant in last year. Didn't know about your water reservoir idea but did know about hugekultur so I put rotten wood in the bottom to help hold water. Worked great. This year I'm building some with bottle water reservoirs based on your concept. 💚
Wow. Thank You for these videos. I got some protein buckets from a friend several weeks ago. I had No idea about this system until a video from another YTer popped up and he gave you the credit Leon. I’m several miles down the road from you in Texas. I also have jugs, bottles, an assortment. I hate throwing out plastic, this is an awesome way to use it ! Thanks again, Debbie.
I watch a lot of gardening youtube and to learn different types of gardening techniques. The ones I watch are a youtuber channel . Gardening made easy with Robbie and Gary. They are from Southern California, and they do a few different things. One is gardening in plastic totes/ containers. Larry Hall - Larry or Eyvonne Hall channel(rip), who does rain gutter grow system, kiddies pool grow system and bottle grow system. I started watching you, Mr. Leon because I had to get rid of my big garden due to health reasons. When I am able to go back to gardening, growing pepper and tomatoes. I guess you and the other youtube channel I mentioned above. Have got me back to gardening the easy way. I have yet to make a self-watering tube you make. I say in my Texas heat that I'm all about grow smart, not harder. That what I'm trying to do and hopefully I can make a self-watering tube in next year or so. Thanks you for all you do.
i hope you will be revisiting the cucumbers grown in the 55gal. drums .. i have bought 2 from your greenhouse and am waiting for my Diva cucumbers to get big enough to insert into the top of the drum .. i love cukes and really wannt to can some this year .. with as many as i am planting i should have enough to can ALOT and have different types of pickles for me and my family .. i love watching you and i love talking to the others at your business they are always so helpful and so willing to assist you with whatever you may need ... we do love you Leon, and i am glad we will see more from you this year
I really enjoy the whole wicking-bed idea but I wish it was more chemistry-minded where we remind ourselves that America was founded on farmed-wetlands.
Thank you Mr. Leon!! So happy to see you again!! I found your channel a long time ago when Daniel Arms recommended it and I’ve been waiting patiently for your postings! I would love to watch you plant seeds in these containers and show how well your veggies grow in them. I’m absolutely fascinated by them. I’m wondering if there is a way instead of having a water overflow if you could have the water run up into another pipe and then divert that pipe back into the into take pipe? If then you could save water and any nutrients that may be leached out from watering and have it recirculate back in to the plant? It would perhaps mean a bit more pipes and attaching them together which I’m sure duct tape may work? Just an idea and then these tubes could be grown indoors or on a patio without the worry of water leaking out of them? I look forward to more of your educational videos and I’d love to see your garden as it grows and anything else you would like to share. God bless and thank you for sharing all your knowledge!!🥰❤️🙏🏻🇨🇦
Would using an Oval Galvanized Stock Tank, 3 ft. x 8 ft. x 2 ft. be feasible for a large wicking tub for multiple tomato plants Love videos and devotionals
This may be a dumb question and I have watched many of your videos. I understood when you were using one black tube but now I don't. Once all the soil is in the tub, how does the water get into each and every different container in the bottom even with a water tube? They are all surrounded by soil.
Good morning Mr. Leon. Daniel Arms suggested your page. I love watching you showing us how to garden in the tubs. I live in an apartment and don't get much sun. I have buildings around that block most of the sun. What can I plant and have success at growing? God Bless 💕💕💕
You could do one tomato plant per 5 gallon bucket, lettuce and spinach in another. Look back thru his older videos and see what all he grows . Also could grow 3 cucumbers plants in one tub. These work great.
Great to see you again. Thank you for sharing your number. I do have a question and need to send you a picture of some tubs I have. Not sure how to do the pipes in the bottom of them. They are 4’ x 3’ and 3’ deep with uneven bottoms. I think they are to be abled to be picked up with a lift. Any suggestions would be helpful. I’ll text you a picture. Thank you. Tina .
I made some in a 5 gal bucket using just one milk jug but I didn’t fill in the rest of the bucket at the bottom with more containers to fill the bottom space I just put dirt around the bucket. Is this going to be a problem
I have notices that you are not using the containers that have the little 2 with arrows around it. They are saying those are considered ( Food Safe). Does that even matter at all?
Leon, how well do potatoes grow in the wicking tub systems, either the mineral tubs or with the grow bags/7 gallon buckets/mineral tubs? I've been growing using your original wicking tub systems for 4 years now, but not with root veggies like carrots or potatoes.
Im wondering..theres one guy on utube who made a wicking worm bin..seems a little elaborate compared to yours..and im wondering if yours could be adapted
What is the highest summer temperatures your wicking buckets and the plants in them tolerate? I'm zone 7B, last summer got 96-103 degrees for most all of June, July, August. Does the soil temp heat up in the buckets?
Does the soil stop up the holes on the containers at the bottom? If so, would adding a layer of petite or vermiculite over the containers or tubing before adding the soil work or would it be an unnecessary expense? Also can you show a tube that has the side tube going through that you talk about? Concerning your soil-do you dump it and replace it each year or leave it in your tubs and just add your fertilizer mix each year and mix the soil around? Can I leave my soil in the tubs and just add fertilizer every year? I have a auger type thing that attached to my drill and that's how I stir my soil each year and occasionally, I'll take a scoop of old soil out and add a scoop of compost in with some perlite or vermiculite and slow release fertilizer. Im getting older and I really don't want to dump or dig and haul more than I have to every year. I have a 100 plus mineral tubs and several 5 gal bucket as well as grow bags that I'm growing from for the past few years. I've poked several holes in the buckets for drainage I'm considering dumping soil and plugging those holes and doing your method so that I do not need to water as often or feed as often. I battle end rot and my soil not holding water. On hot days I have to water every day or the plants shrivel and fall over but watering that much depletes my fertilizer fast and I can't seem to catch up. I just want to make sure if I convert my tubs over that I do it right.
Chassidy you don't need to replace your soul each year. You can loosen it up in spring I just add new fertilizer. Perlite or vermiculite would be an unnecessary expense. If you just add little pipe through your jug/pipe/container it will help. I leave my tubs outside , put new compost or soil each year on top. Dig down put his fertilizer suggestion then cover back up.
Hi, find a farmer in your area who has cattle. Some provide their herds minerals that comes in there tubs. They usually give them away or charge just a few dollars. That is the way I have gotten mine. Good luck.
Anyone have any comments on which plastics are best to use when gardening? I've read that #2 & #5 are best, but #7 is toxic because it contains BPA. Any recommendations?