Container Garden Ideas – How To Find FREE Containers For Your Vegetable Garden

The side drainage holes are super important in my experience.

McDonald’s used to get pickles in orange buckets like the round ones from
HD. I’m not sure if they still do or not, but it’s another source and
something good that actually comes from fast food. Other places like that
probably use them too.

McDonald’s used to get pickles in orange buckets like the round ones from
HD. I’m not sure if they still do or not, but it’s another source and
something good that actually comes from fast food. Other places like that
probably use them too.

How To Find FREE Containers For Your Vegetable Garden!
http://youtu.be/zYIUj3kKXIM

Great video Miss Mann!!
I use plastic buckets for tomatoes, peppers, and carrots. I use recycle
containers for corn and green beans.
I have a lot of friends who don’t bother recycling. I just toss my recycle
in boxes and the town hauls it off.
I have also found things like the plastic containers that butter and other
food items come in great for seedlings. Large juice bottles and milk jugs
are also great for basil and parsley plants. Plastic water cooler jugs are
great also. Cut the tops off and your ready to go.
I also make containers from wood scraps like 1×2,1×4,1×6 and 2×4.. Avoid
treated lumber and lumber that is coated with stain or paint on both sides.
Cinder blocks are great. They have 3 holes in them and are good for
carrots. I set them right on the lawn. I dig up the grass first. After the
harvest I pick up the block, and spread the potting mix out and I’m ready
for spring.
I often cut my 5 gal buckets in half if I don’t need a lot of depth. The
left over ring does not go to waist. I set the on the lawn and drop a
tomato or pepper in it. Now all I have to do is use a weed wackier around
them to cut the grass.
You’ve got a great garden!
Mike

Wow, what a great haul of free buckets for your container garden! I love
it!

hi, i am from India, i grow organic terrace veg garden in my home. i use
plastic paint buckets, thick plastic mineral water containers as
containers. here at our place, as containers, black plastic covers with
holes are supplied…v buy them and grow our veggies….these r weightless,
has drainage holes,,, and lasts for upto 5 yrs…

I feel your pain when it comes to In-Ground Gardening and the need to use
containers. Where I live in Virginia, Root-Knot-Nematodes are devastating
to the health of vegetables.. The local grocery store gives away their old
buckets in the Deli/Bakery and lately its been the one-gallon size which I
plan to use with small grow bags as a reservoir (Make a hole 3 inches from
the Bottom) for ease of watering.. My studies into hydroponics and grow
bags indicates the roots need more air. I also had a similar experience
growing African-Violet plants in the past using a fertilizer oxygenated
with hydrogen-Peroxide and clay pots.

spring and fall cleanup days . go to your local nursuries and landscape
companies. they throw out their big pots that bushes or trees were in. i
got 50 or so for free. all but 5 are planted with veddies

Thank you so much for the beautiful idea.

Great idea! I’m going to go ask for buckets tomorrow!

Hi Sheryl. I’m Sheryl too and while I’m in zone 7 Alabama now, I hail from
NE Ohio. Thanks for sharing this. I keep forgetting to ask at my
grocery store. That haul is probably worth getting a Sam’s Club
membership.