Container Gardening: Drainage Holes

Patti the Garden Girl puts drainage holes into her galvanized steel containers.

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Education

Tags:

• drainage holes
• container gardening
• patio garden
• small space gardening
• sustainable living
• fruit trees

[infinidox]

Those buckets will rust out in those spots, as the galvinisation is only on the surface of the metal. The exposed bits in the holes will start to corrode.

[500passwords]

cute girl with hand tools , gotta love that :) 5 stars

[Tieball]

Thanks...I'm learning very well from you. Winter now. You're helping create some excellent enthusiasm for the upcoming spring and summer growing. You're fabulous!

[kokonutbaby1]

i used saved plastic milk jugs this past spring/summer for my squashes and cucumbers, put holes in the bottom and cut out the tops leaving the handles..worked well plus if its not doing well in one spot u can move to another and its just less plastic going to landfills.

will take yrs for those steel buckets to rust completely up,..large plastic containers esp sterite go brittle from the sun in about 3 yrs & crack to pieces.

[dogpup23]

good ways to do it, i think a drill would be better though : / and the bucket will slowly rust where you put the holes ._.

[28bull]

Patti ,

I have access to 25-35 gallon blue food grade chemical barrels. I drill drain hole in the bottoms and put about a 3 inch layer of sand in the bottom to pull off excess moisture yet it hold some so when the soil on top drys it pulls water from tme the sand. After my plants are about a foot higt in 6 inches of soil I add more seed potatoes. and soil I can get 5 layers in. Now my crops size varies, but it works great for me.

Thank you for many good tips.

28Bull

[TheDudeRulez09]

Patti do you have any single sisters that aren't afraid of gardening either? LOL

[zeroelliott4146]

great video! 10 stars in my book!

[MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!

[Sirmau]

Patti, as usual...nice vids. Where did ya buy that hammer? Seems it's all rusted.

Cheers lovely lady!!