Hello Robbie, I have been rewatching your videos, as I want to help a lady who is very disheartened in trying to grow her vegetables in the ground. The moles have been chewing on all the roots. So I told her I am going to help her. I said there is always a solution to every challenge. I do love to share your videos with new gardeners or people who can't grow on the soil. Thank You Robbie & Gary for all your experience and knowledge you have shared with us over the years. I always love to share your videos with people who need to grow in totes/containers and buckets. Very grateful and Many Thanks. Much love ❤.
Thank you for your enthusiasm and can do attitude. I appreciate how simple you can teach these things. I'm getting more hummingbirds each year. Your positive energy generates me to do more. Thank You and Hugs!
Thank you Robbie for having the courage to be different and think outside the box composting in place has been very helpful to my garden thank you for sharing
I just redid my small compost in place in my tote with Jalapeños and squash, I had a lid and replaced it with a pot with lettuce. put another one with squash and a pot with wandering jew. I love my tower tote garden. Thanks for your videos.
Robbie, I just discovered your and Gary's channel! I love it! I live in an apartment and have a Container Garden on my back patio. I have been binging your videos and am so excited too have learned so much from you! Thank you for teaching so clearly and beautifully!
Robbie, you really are ingenious to have thought of all of this. This is such an amazing system you’ve devised, and then to generously in such helpful detail share it with us. No one else is growing in compost bins that I can find, have you noticed?… yet it’s such a huge game changer. So grateful for you! Thank you endlessly for sharing all these wonderful how-to details with us!
Thank you Robbie! You have such a positive attitude and you show how easy your system can be. It's cheap too!!! Gardeners are so frugal and try to find use from discarded things. I look for those bins at the thrift stores. Now you show how to reuse a plastic coffee container!!!! And it works so well! It is fun to learn from you. I do want to add that I am finding much use in used coffee grounds. A restaurant gives me a bagful on the weekends. The smell deters deer and small animals. I have used coffee grounds as the top layer on potatoes that are planted in a garbage can (no bottom on it). Potatoes are growing well and no deer chewing them - no beetles either. I've mixed coffee grounds into soil for the bins - but not sure if it helps. It's an experiment in growing in bins this year. Already planning next years "Bin Garden" and starting to prepare the bins. I live in northern Wisconsin - so the winter snows are going to come and go. But really - the container gardening is working even here in the north.
A good trick I learned from my granddaddy is to put a old rug outside somewhere away from the house and put your used dish water on it every chance you think about and the worms will come to that spot he did to have fishing worms.
Robbie, Thank you for your great ideas. I like to repurpose things that can work in container gardening. I always wanted to save that water from the rain or draining from flower pots. I wanted to save all the nutrients washed away. I learned from you to make just one hole n the side of container and catch it with a bucket. That's an awesome idea! I also put temporarily a strainer to prevent mosquitos. I'm looking forward to learn more.
Ty so much for this info. As a new gardener with high dreams of becoming an experienced gardener like youreslf, i find your videos refreshing and also possible for myself to achieve my dreams in the small place that i have thanks to you. I will most definately stick with the videos you share. Keep up the awesome work and videos. Bless it be🤗😎☺
Thank you for sharing your knowledge in gardening. I love how you use anything and everything from basic things around your home, nature and just thinking outside the box. And cheap. I thought I had to buy so many things to plant but all I need now is plant.
Yes we want to see it👁️ Robbie💯..,because people are learning from this knowledge you, I don't even have a Garden, but now I no I can grow in buckets I will try this Spring 2021😀..Happy New year 2021🎈ROSE from Ala
First video I saw from you. I'm so inspired by your energy, aside from the video!! I seem like a fun person to garden with! Thanks for sharing your container system and composting trick! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 amazing idea.
Aloha Robbie, Thank you so much for sharing with us. I’m learning so much from all of your videos. You’re very motivating, funny, and full of information. I feel I can do whatever you’re sharing. Even bird feeders! We don’t have hummingbirds in Hawaii but we do have so many cute ones. Mahalo (“thank you”)/ L🙂
This is great, for so many reasons. I love my big composted. , don't get me wrong but this way you just get to see you results, you can easily add to the bigger one, also when you trim your plants You have a container right there.
Absolutely fabulous ideas, I love it and have used some of your great ideas x a talented, beautiful and lovely lady x thank you and I'm glad you put it up xx
As an experienced garden I just wanted to let you know, I love your channel, your ideas and your enthusiasm. Becerra to old to learn and I've incorporated several of your ideas.......next one is going to be the in place composter, fantastic idea
Hi Robbie, I could not believe how simple your system is and here I was ready to start making the wicking system and boy, was I glad to find your videos. THANK YOU!!! I collecting our food scraps and will start to compose in place. I was worry about the mosquitoes but it makes total sense the way you do it. It is shill here in NYC yet but I will start my seedling and see if I can get the success that you have at a lot lower scale . I subscribed and will be igor to your next videos, Thanks a MILLION!!
Hi Robbie. I wanted to Thank you!!! 💕 This year in my containers, I placed partially finished compost and a bit of chicken or cow manure, and some combo of soil. So not exactly as you've described, but you inspired me to do this. I am so excited with the amazing growth that has happened.. because of the added compost.. this year. The plants are exuberant to say the least! Ty
You're so encouraging and helpful with your videos about composting in place. No earthworms here where I live and the one time I tried them, they all died with the intense heat and dry conditions of southern AZ near the Mexican border. I am working on more composting in my containers and learning more each year. Thank you for sharing and caring that we all learn to grow what we eat!
I love all of your practical gardening, Robbie. Thanks for sharing! I struggle finding earth worms in my yard--but learning from you that they are mostly found in damp soil has helped. It was good to learn in this one that there might be worm eggs under our buckets. I look forward to continuing my gardening with you.
Hey Robbie, I’m have all of my plants in containers this year because, I’ve had 2 back surgeries already this year. I did manage to get me some Walking Onions, Dinosaur Kale, and Sprouting Broccoli too. I still can’t find me any Tree Collards though, I wish I could. Thank you for sharing...
Have you seen the Plant Abundance YT channel? He is doing a food forest with wood chips and huegelculture(sp?). He has been promoting tree collards as a food source. He shows how to propagate them and I'm pretty sure he sells them online. I don't know if he sells plants or seeds.💙🌱 Edit: He is also in California.
I try to live by this method of efficient tasking, i try to plan two outcomes with every movement, two birds with one stone, so things like doubling the water and reusing plastics etc really resonates with me. I really want to try aquaponics and hydroponics aeroponics, seperately but in the same garden. I want to keep chickens and rabbits, crawfish or talapia, black soldier flies, honey bees, worms.... tower/vertical gardening, i use oak leaves and food scraps for my own compost. There just is no end to what we can learn. And there are so many circles that just add up. And i love saving money, even if its just a drop of water used more efficiently.
Hi Robbie, I love your way of gardening. I am trying to do things your way here in Southwestern Ohio (Cincinnati). I was wondering if you could give me any advice how to winterize this system, especially if it has earthworms in the soil. I know you're in southern CA and don't have winters like ours here. But you know SO MUCH MORE than I do about gardening, and perhaps you have some sage advice?
Next year I am going to move my tomatoes to be on top of totes they grow it big pots with spring lettuce. Looking for old chairs like your chair garden.
Hi Robbie! I am a fan of your channel and gardening method. Your composting method is genius. The system seems to inherently save watering needs. But would you mind doing a more in depth video on your watering method and systems- ie, rain barrels/harvesting, frequency of watering, grey water, etc? Thanks for the inspiration!
This is so much wonderful information. I live in az. and it is very hard to grow anything. I want to grow Lavender for a healthier life. Could you tell me what kind of plant to get for culinary, medical, etc. Thank you for sharing.
If you want to start a worm farm and Google it they always say you can't use native earthworms it won't work. Thank you for proving native earthworms will work outside and proving you don't need much to start a garden.
Hi I'm trying your method in Germany and I get timy red insects with 6 legs that run really fast all over the compost, decomposing the veggies! I can't find out what they are but I'm hoping they will be beneficial and not touch the plants!
good video, genius ideas! I am setting up to grow a couple of dwarf Meyer lemons in containers. citrus is a heavy feeder. This system will work beautifully in my 20 gal containers. one question: when do you introduce the worms and what kind of worms do you use?
All those big bins on your shelf have pots in them. When you add soil did those bins have holes in the bottom or in the sides? I know the smaller pots on top have holes in the bottom.
Robbie, what layer do you put the worms on? I have one big container, I put some leaves, and shredded paper on first, now when do I put the worms in, before or after the scraps?
Hi Robbie can I do this in a vertical garden the green stalk? When did you put the worms in and how do you take care of the worms without them dying from the heat do you have a bucket inside the house that they stay cool?
I'm having that same problem. They wiped out all of my yellow squash & zuchini plants...except for one I am still trying to save. I've read the moths that lay the eggs slow down mid summer so am getting ready to replant & try again..& maybe surround with tulle either till the blooms come in.. or self polinate. Not sure. Any other solutions would be appreciated cause I Love squash & zuchini :)
I have kind of discovered that tomatoe plants discourage the moths cause they dont like the smell ,so I let some of my volunteer tomatoes kind of grow on the ground around squash plants .Its a mess but seems to work pretty well. Next year I will be ready for them! VBG
I think I got some potting soil that might be bad. Maybe it had chemicals in it. Can I put in my compost and let the worms eat through it? will it kill them? Or will re-cycling the soil and make it good?
Can you put tulle over the bucket that is below your totes catching excess water to prevent mosquitoes from laying tr eggs in the stagnant water- (maybe clip with clothespins to rim to keep tulle in place)
Help. I used same hummer feeders. 1 to 4 ratio sugar to water. Put up one a.m. I saw my backyard hummer fly from bottle brush down further to feeder.... hovered and flew away .. had to toss next am. It was all green hummer. Had to dump out 2 in front where we have red belly hummer. One had ants.. so need to make an ant guard.
Hello Robbie,
I have been rewatching your videos, as I want to help a lady who is very disheartened in trying to grow her vegetables in the ground. The moles have been chewing on all the roots.
So I told her I am going to help her.
I said there is always a solution to every challenge.
I do love to share your videos with new gardeners or people who can't grow on the soil.
Thank You Robbie & Gary
for all your experience and knowledge you have shared with us over the years.
I always love to share your videos with people who need to grow in totes/containers and buckets.
Very grateful and Many Thanks.
Much love ❤.
Omg, did u see a pocket onto your shirt?!?!!! Genius!!! 😻💗😻💗😻
You just saved me $200. I was going to buy a composter. I will use bucket and coffee can. Thank you.
Me too.
You are a gem!!! I've been following you and I can't get enough of listening to you and watching you at work!!! I can't thank you enough!!
Thank you for your enthusiasm and can do attitude. I appreciate how simple you can teach these things. I'm getting more hummingbirds each year. Your positive energy generates me to do more. Thank You and Hugs!
Love your videos & your energy! Thanks!
Thanks so much!!
Thank you Robbie for having the courage to be different and think outside the box composting in place has been very helpful to my garden thank you for sharing
I just redid my small compost in place in my tote with Jalapeños and squash, I had a lid and replaced it with a pot with lettuce. put another one with squash and a pot with wandering jew. I love my tower tote garden. Thanks for your videos.
Robbie, I just discovered your and Gary's channel! I love it! I live in an apartment and have a Container Garden on my back patio. I have been binging your videos and am so excited too have learned so much from you! Thank you for teaching so clearly and beautifully!
That is awesome! Thank you SO much!
Robbie, you really are ingenious to have thought of all of this. This is such an amazing system you’ve devised, and then to generously in such helpful detail share it with us. No one else is growing in compost bins that I can find, have you noticed?… yet it’s such a huge game changer. So grateful for you! Thank you endlessly for sharing all these wonderful how-to details with us!
Great video Robbie and I love your friends out the window there behind you. All your videos make me smile and I learn so much from you. Thanks!
You are a gold mine of tips 🥰 love your channel! ❤️
I luv u guys sooooo much
Oh my. Been gardening for years and I can’t thank you enough for passing on this knowledge 💕 will be making an addition soon!!
Thanks for sharing. Have a great day.
Wow.. look how it’s came along..
I've been doing this all year thanks to you!
Excellent explanation! Thank you!
Thank you Robbie! You have such a positive attitude and you show how easy your system can be. It's cheap too!!! Gardeners are so frugal and try to find use from discarded things. I look for those bins at the thrift stores. Now you show how to reuse a plastic coffee container!!!! And it works so well! It is fun to learn from you. I do want to add that I am finding much use in used coffee grounds. A restaurant gives me a bagful on the weekends. The smell deters deer and small animals. I have used coffee grounds as the top layer on potatoes that are planted in a garbage can (no bottom on it). Potatoes are growing well and no deer chewing them - no beetles either. I've mixed coffee grounds into soil for the bins - but not sure if it helps. It's an experiment in growing in bins this year. Already planning next years "Bin Garden" and starting to prepare the bins. I live in northern Wisconsin - so the winter snows are going to come and go. But really - the container gardening is working even here in the north.
A good trick I learned from my granddaddy is to put a old rug outside somewhere away from the house and put your used dish water on it every chance you think about and the worms will come to that spot he did to have fishing worms.
I am setting up my totes to compost in place. I love the wonderful ideas you have given me.
I love your cheerful videos. You have inspired me to make a cascading garden. What wonderful information you share.
Looking forward to getting started in my expanded container garden this year. Thanks for all the good advice.
Very smart, thank you Robbie.
Thank you, Robbie, just the info I was looking for. 🥰
Love, Love, Love all your content!!!
Robbie, Thank you for your great ideas. I like to repurpose things that can work in container gardening. I always wanted to save that water from the rain or draining from flower pots. I wanted to save all the nutrients washed away. I learned from you to make just one hole n the side of container and catch it with a bucket. That's an awesome idea! I also put temporarily a strainer to prevent mosquitos. I'm looking forward to learn more.
Very clever system. Two thumbs up!
❤️❤️
This is the best composting I've ever heard, I'll do the same, thank you mam for sharing!
HOLA !!! ROBBIE thank you for a great video it a great ideal !!!!
Wow that's great, so beautifully explained! Thank you.
You are so welcome, THANK YOU, Robbie (you really need to check out the video not as to what it all looks like now)
Good advice for people
Thank you Robby...
I just found your channel looking up hummingbird feeders and I’m excited to start my bin composte garden 🌱 🤩🤩🤩
Thanks you for all inspiration. I Love to try new ways. Now I am drilling holes in large pots and I want more kitchenscraps... Jessica in Sweden
Ty so much for this info. As a new gardener with high dreams of becoming an experienced gardener like youreslf, i find your videos refreshing and also possible for myself to achieve my dreams in the small place that i have thanks to you. I will most definately stick with the videos you share. Keep up the awesome work and videos. Bless it be🤗😎☺
Thank you for sharing your knowledge in gardening. I love how you use anything and everything from basic things around your home, nature and just thinking outside the box. And cheap. I thought I had to buy so many things to plant but all I need now is plant.
Yes we want to see it👁️ Robbie💯..,because people are learning from this knowledge you, I don't even have a Garden, but now I no I can grow in buckets I will try this Spring 2021😀..Happy New year 2021🎈ROSE from Ala
First video I saw from you. I'm so inspired by your energy, aside from the video!! I seem like a fun person to garden with! Thanks for sharing your container system and composting trick! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 amazing idea.
I love love love this idea!
Fantastic !
I put a mini compost container in a bin with my squash plant.
That is just so cool and simple. You making me want to do it. And I shall
Thank you for sharing this with us at Retired Backyard Birders.
Great tip thanks for sharing! 🌸🌺
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks.
Great video with lots of info!! And as always, your plants look happy and healthy. Thanks Robbie!! God bless you and much love. 😄💕🌹
I am going to do this right away!!! Thank you!!!
Your gardening method seems so super easy I can't wait to try it out thanks for the info!
Aloha Robbie,
Thank you so much for sharing with us. I’m learning so much from all of your videos. You’re very motivating, funny, and full of information. I feel I can do whatever you’re sharing. Even bird feeders! We don’t have hummingbirds in Hawaii but we do have so many cute ones. Mahalo (“thank you”)/ L🙂
Good V.
Thank you very for all the information, I like your garden. Have Blessed day!
Great information. Thank you.
This is great, for so many reasons. I love my big composted. , don't get me wrong but this way you just get to see you results, you can easily add to the bigger one, also when you trim your plants You have a container right there.
Ingenious
Absolutely fabulous ideas, I love it and have used some of your great ideas x a talented, beautiful and lovely lady x thank you and I'm glad you put it up xx
Thanks for sharing. I need to get some containers (bins, when on sale). Have a productive summer.😃🍃
I found some of mine at the thrift store
I do this in my containers it's awesome!
I needed this, thank you.
Love this video👍👍🙂🙂
As an experienced garden I just wanted to let you know, I love your channel, your ideas and your enthusiasm. Becerra to old to learn and I've incorporated several of your ideas.......next one is going to be the in place composter, fantastic idea
Hi Robbie, I could not believe how simple your system is and here I was ready to start making the wicking system and boy, was I glad to find your videos. THANK YOU!!! I collecting our food scraps and will start to compose in place. I was worry about the mosquitoes but it makes total sense the way you do it. It is shill here in NYC yet but I will start my seedling and see if I can get the success that you have at a lot lower scale . I subscribed and will be igor to your next videos, Thanks a MILLION!!
This is fantastic. Love your channel. Thank you for the information.
Hi Robbie. I wanted to Thank you!!! 💕 This year in my containers, I placed partially finished compost and a bit of chicken or cow manure, and some combo of soil. So not exactly as you've described, but you inspired me to do this. I am so excited with the amazing growth that has happened.. because of the added compost.. this year. The plants are exuberant to say the least! Ty
Super!!! That all sounds wonderful, thank you so much for sharing 😊❤️
Brilliant thank you
I love the concept. Today I placed my third compost in place in my garden.
You're so encouraging and helpful with your videos about composting in place. No earthworms here where I live and the one time I tried them, they all died with the intense heat and dry conditions of southern AZ near the Mexican border. I am working on more composting in my containers and learning more each year. Thank you for sharing and caring that we all learn to grow what we eat!
I love all of your practical gardening, Robbie. Thanks for sharing! I struggle finding earth worms in my yard--but learning from you that they are mostly found in damp soil has helped. It was good to learn in this one that there might be worm eggs under our buckets. I look forward to continuing my gardening with you.
Great videos, as always 😃 keep doing what you’re doing! We love you both ❤️
Thanks 😊
gréât vidéo
Hey Robbie, I’m have all of my plants in containers this year because, I’ve had 2 back surgeries already this year. I did manage to get me some Walking Onions, Dinosaur Kale, and Sprouting Broccoli too. I still can’t find me any Tree Collards though, I wish I could. Thank you for sharing...
Have you seen the Plant Abundance YT channel? He is doing a food forest with wood chips and huegelculture(sp?).
He has been promoting tree collards as a food source. He shows how to propagate them and I'm pretty sure he sells them online. I don't know if he sells plants or seeds.💙🌱
Edit: He is also in California.
❤ ur cleverness
Thank you for all this great information. I will try this method.
This is cool
Thank you so much for sharing this information! I know what I'm going to do!
I try to live by this method of efficient tasking, i try to plan two outcomes with every movement, two birds with one stone, so things like doubling the water and reusing plastics etc really resonates with me. I really want to try aquaponics and hydroponics aeroponics, seperately but in the same garden. I want to keep chickens and rabbits, crawfish or talapia, black soldier flies, honey bees, worms.... tower/vertical gardening, i use oak leaves and food scraps for my own compost. There just is no end to what we can learn. And there are so many circles that just add up. And i love saving money, even if its just a drop of water used more efficiently.
Hi Robbie, I love your way of gardening. I am trying to do things your way here in Southwestern Ohio (Cincinnati).
I was wondering if you could give me any advice how to winterize this system, especially if it has earthworms in the soil. I know you're in southern CA and don't have winters like ours here. But you know SO MUCH MORE than I do about gardening, and perhaps you have some sage advice?
Next year I am going to move my tomatoes to be on top of totes they grow it big pots with spring lettuce. Looking for old chairs like your chair garden.
Sounds great!
Hi Robbie! I am a fan of your channel and gardening method. Your composting method is genius. The system seems to inherently save watering needs. But would you mind doing a more in depth video on your watering method and systems- ie, rain barrels/harvesting, frequency of watering, grey water, etc? Thanks for the inspiration!
So nice of you, I plan on doing LOTS of talk on watering this year, Happy Gardening, Thank you!
This is so much wonderful information. I live in az. and it is very hard to grow anything. I want to grow Lavender for a healthier life. Could you tell me what kind of plant to get for culinary, medical, etc. Thank you for sharing.
If you want to start a worm farm and Google it they always say you can't use native earthworms it won't work. Thank you for proving native earthworms will work outside and proving you don't need much to start a garden.
Hi I'm trying your method in Germany and I get timy red insects with 6 legs that run really fast all over the compost, decomposing the veggies! I can't find out what they are but I'm hoping they will be beneficial and not touch the plants!
good video, genius ideas! I am setting up to grow a couple of dwarf Meyer lemons in containers. citrus is a heavy feeder. This system will work beautifully in my 20 gal containers. one question: when do you introduce the worms and what kind of worms do you use?
All those big bins on your shelf have pots in them. When you add soil did those bins have holes in the bottom or in the sides? I know the smaller pots on top have holes in the bottom.
What did you use for your tables to put your containers on. Also where did u get the awesome bird feeders?
Robbie, what layer do you put the worms on? I have one big container, I put some leaves, and shredded paper on first, now when do I put the worms in, before or after the scraps?
Wonderful I need that dipper where did you get it?
How cool! ♦️♦️♦️ will the Texas 115 temps kill worms in a container?
Hi Robbie can I do this in a vertical garden the green stalk? When did you put the worms in and how do you take care of the worms without them dying from the heat do you have a bucket inside the house that they stay cool?
I tried your system,and it worked great,I had some lovely zuchini plants .Then the squash vine borers got them.Have any problems with them?
I'm having that same problem. They wiped out all of my yellow squash & zuchini plants...except for one I am still trying to save. I've read the moths that lay the eggs slow down mid summer so am getting ready to replant & try again..& maybe surround with tulle either till the blooms come in.. or self polinate. Not sure. Any other solutions would be appreciated cause I Love squash & zuchini :)
I have kind of discovered that tomatoe plants discourage the moths cause they dont like the smell ,so I let some of my volunteer tomatoes kind of grow on the ground around squash plants .Its a mess but seems to work pretty well. Next year I will be ready for them! VBG
@@tessah7133 Come to think of it..the last surviving one is around tomato plants. You may be onto something there. Thanks for the tip!
I think I got some potting soil that might be bad. Maybe it had chemicals in it. Can I put in my compost and let the worms eat through it? will it kill them? Or will re-cycling the soil and make it good?
Your T shirt looks different?! Did you make a pocket?
Very helpful, that saves lots of water too. I also like your blue long handle water ladle, where I can purchase it ? thank you.
ruclips.net/video/M8FqBwmNZyc/видео.html
I bought those from a store called, Daiso, but I made some too, here is the video on how I did that, thanks
just discovered your videos. very cool, but where do the worms come from.
Can you compose weed that you pull off?
I live in pretty dry climate, do you think it will save water if you plant in containers than direct sowing on the ground?
I feel it does save "big time" on water. Take care
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy thank you very much. I will try your method next year.
Can you put tulle over the bucket that is below your totes catching excess water to prevent mosquitoes from laying tr eggs in the stagnant water- (maybe clip with clothespins to rim to keep tulle in place)
Do you sterilize your egg shells by baking them? Or do toss them right into the kitchen waste bin?
Help. I used same hummer feeders. 1 to 4 ratio sugar to water. Put up one a.m. I saw my backyard hummer fly from bottle brush down further to feeder.... hovered and flew away .. had to toss next am. It was all green hummer. Had to dump out 2 in front where we have red belly hummer. One had ants.. so need to make an ant guard.
do you water everything by hand or do you use some kind of irrigation system?
Robbie. How did you come up with this idea?
In your compost bin, do you put meat or fish in??
Sometimes I do, but might be best if new at this skip the meat fish is great 😊