SIP construction video

Here's a short video showing the steps in creating a one bucket two gallon SIP.

It's essentially the slide show from an earlier post, but it should be expanded soon to include more information.
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The Greenhouse, and Seeds

The Container Farm has a new addition, a 6' x 8' greenhouse. This saves us having to drag fifteen or so seed trays in and out every time the sun comes out. It'll also hopefully speed up the hardening off process as we prepare to plant more containers.
And, speaking of seeds, next time, we'll go right into 2" or 3" fiber pots with potting mix, rather than peat pellets. The "Jiffy" style pellets worked reasonably well, but the unwrapped smaller peat plugs were unsatisfactory.

Our First Order!

The Container Farm took its first "order" in early April! The requester asked for eleven different items, two each, for a total of 22 containers. As of today, 18 are essentially ready to go, the final four still needing to bulk up a bit before transplanting.

April Showers

OK. So maybe the reason I haven't gotten around to publishing SIP (Sub-Irrigated Planter) construction photos is because I never found a method that I really was happy with.
Or laziness. But probably dissatisfaction. But maybe laziness.
Any way, I finally found a way to make one container out of one bucket, with very little scrap, and not too much work.
Click on the photo to see an album showing how I did it.

March Madness

March was a busy time on the Container Farm. Seedlings to transplant, containers to ready, experiments to begin. The first experiment involves using leaf mulch in place of peat moss in a container potting mix. Four Roma tomatoes, two in regular commercial potting mix, two in leaf mix, one of each set with organic fertilizer, the other with regular. The second tries out a burlap liner in place of the upper bucket in a two bucket SIP (Sub-Irrigated Planter), in an attempt to conserve buckets. The photos links to photo sets.