Sunday, March 1, 2009

Vegetable Gardening Class

Yesterday I went to the vegetable gardening class at the extension service. It was a good basic class, but was very general information, so I had heard most of it previously. It would be a great class for a beginner.

The two things that I took away from the class were building a floating garden, a simple hydroponic gardening system for the home grower and using five gallon buckets with a hole drilled in the bottom for making an upside down tomato growing bucket.

The extension service has a great page on growing in containers:

Here's the link on how to build a floating garden:




The least expensive net pots I have found are at:
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=net+pots&tag=yahhyd-20&index=garden&hvadid=18351817511&ref=pd_sl_9076jukta1_e

http://www.simplyhydroponics.com/net_cups.htm


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