I am about to use this method for the second time as I had success following your instructions to sew tomatillos. I grew them in the jug from a slice of a tomatillo. It has yielded 4 plants. I'll be growing various types of peppers this time. Thank you, sir for sharing this with us.
My mom planted one Early Girl in zone 5 in the midwest in 2019. She had so many tomatoes she ended up canning several pints, giving fruit away and they kept on going and going well into fall. It was an amazing plant. She said they were so tasty and just the right size for one person. So I planted 12 of them in 5 gallon buckets this year in zone 4 because I like to can. They are growing like crazy! So excited. Going to try some of my crops using this method! TFS. 😉
I use vinegar in my laundry. After rinsing the gallon bottles, I use them for winter sowing. That is a great idea to plant in the garden and just cover with the top of the bottles. Arthritis keeps me out of my big garden, so my husband bought a lot of large pots for me to use on the deck. We also use large plastic buckets. I planted seeds that I saved from an apple that we ate in a vinegar bottle, and they are growing very well!
We have done similar in Texas all my life. We used to take the very bottom off all the way around, plant directly in the ground, and build dirt up around the jug outside. This holds the jug in place during winds. Another way we use is cut the bottom in half and then cut around the bottom edge and leave about two inches making a flap. Again sow directly in the ground. Cover the flaps with dirt to hold them in place. When, it is past frost, the plants are usually to the top of the jug. Then we just pull the jugs off and grow naturally in the ground
Thank you. I had not thought of that. I did try them to plant my herbs this year. So far so good and a lot cheaper than buying planters. I also painted them with some kiltz as I did not want the roots against the walls to burn since I am using them as planters. Used as seed starters I would not paint the jug. I will try this next year to get my plants going and have them set on the porch. I am in Texas and will try to remember and plant early girl. Thank you again and look forward to your next video.
God Bless milk jug garden growers as our temps here in Downeast Maine have been downright chilly! Iplant all my seeds into jugs, with my top starting above the handles (means more manure/dirt). Cabbages, everything works with some plants growing out of the top of jug. The best thing is all plants are hardened, far better to plant than purchased greenhouse plants that need to be hardened.
Thank you buddy I live in Pennsylvania and we always have white flies and those worms that like to crawl into your squash plants and live off of it while your squash dies, this seems like a really good idea, thank you very much I will try. Many blessings on your garden.
Great idea for the jugs! I’ve been trying to reuse whatever I can for environmental reasons for years, but now with all this mess going on, I’m trying to reuse what I’ve got to avoid going out to the stores. So far I’ve learned that a milk jug can be: a cloche, cut a certain way it is a soil scoop or a pet food scoop, with a few pinholes punched in the bottom a milk jug can be a slow release liquid fertilizer jug. Learned that one from another RUclipsr gardener who used it on his fruit trees, and I just use his idea whenever I need to water anything that’s planted on an incline or in really hydrophobic soil. It really worked on my roses that are unfortunately parked on an incline, but a double whammy it’s also heavy clay. Tried it this spring and this is the first year they’ve really taken off. The whole bush jumped a third in height in about a month. It looks like a Christmas tree with the string lights shut off since it’s just covered in buds poised to burst into bloom. Pretty exciting! I’ll be adding your milk jug mini greenhouses to my list. Thanks for your inspiring video. Keep on growing! ✌️🌱
Ps- no one is judging you for the scissors! 😂 I have two pairs in my garage, a pair for the kitchen, and another set for my plant room. Gotta get the job done ✂️
This is great! I was going to make milk jug skulls for Halloween before I realized melting plastic was pretty toxic. Now I've gt a great use for a garbage bag full of tmilk jugs! Thanks Erv!
This year I tried indoor sowing without much luck and a lot of heartache. I was trying to bypass the garden shops and sow my own. Now I have your idea and I am good to go . Thanks
I'm going to do a video about how I grow my seedlings indoors. It's a pretty low budget setup. It's not ideal, but it works. The biggest thing you have to do is pay attention to the germination temperature of your seeds, and hardening off your plants before you take them outside.
Thanks. I used one of my old alcohol bottles like that to grow some tomato plants. They did so well. Will try this, as great to grow plants in new ways. I had even left a hinged top. Worked wonderfully. Plants got so big I had to transplant in large styrofoam cup
Great video thanks for this! I’m growing tomatoes, peppers and a few varieties of lettuce in jugs. So much better than indoor sowing and much less hassle.
My Grandpa born in 1900 used to do a variation of this every year to start his tomatos, esp. He put the seeds/seedlings in the ground then put the cut jug top over the plant to protect it and warm it. When the plants were big enough he then just took the jug off and his garden was set. 🙂
The cut jug over the jug seems like a better way of doing it, really. I wonder if the soil warms up as well though. Inside the jug the soil would be isolated and more exposed to sun so hence, warmer. I might try both methods simultaneously with same seed and see which works best or if there is a difference.
Now being severely limited in physical activity gardening is out of the question. Thankful you popped up with possible solution for me! Maybe after we get all moved in we can try it. Have great hope your milk jug garden will work on East Tennessee porch. 👍🏻♥️
Maybe a dumb question but I don’t have time to read all the comments. What do you with them once they start sprouting or growing, leave them in the jug or plant them in the ground?
Paint pen, also made by Sharpie, will never fade (because it's paint lol!) They can be purchased in craft stores. Also believe it or not, pencil doesn't fade.
Paint Pens work the best. Oil base ones that you shake up before you use them. They don't seem to fade. I like your yellow duct tape. It gave me a great idea on making yellow soap traps for squash bugs this year...Last year they devastated some big beautiful stands of yellow squash I had going that went flat on the ground within only a couple days. Thanks for the video!
You're welcome, and thanks for watching! I totally forgot about this channel to be honest. Got a job about 8 months ago and stopped gardening. Going to have to post more Garden videos this summer.
Yellow Duct tape!! I will look for some tomorrow as I saw white & yellow tapes for bugs for sale in JohnnySeeds for nearly $20 US. I found Capt. Jack's organic bug spray last year as I have had millions of potato / squash / cuke bugs for years. Inexpensive & works miracles removing my bug problem. I do not spray it where my bees would access it--just in case.
@@ErvsGarden actually important to make comments on your observations from last year NOW, while your video is put up for Spring planning showing this month next weekend many will do what they researched this week.
You are awesome! Thank you for sharing 🙃 very helpful. Gonna go plant some things over here in Rhode island! Wish me luck🤞(attempting spinach, kale, lettuce, herbs, onions, and purple UFO shaped hot peppers)
Great video. We grew Early Girl here in Tampa, FL. Was indeterminate and grew about 10 ft and one plant had 30 tomatos by June 1. I would grow them again in a heartbeat.
So glad I haven't taken my empty milk jugs to the dump yet! We're going to have to try this. We live at a high altitude with a short growing season, but plenty of hot sun in the summer. Looking forward to trying this out! Thanks for sharing, Erv!
This looks like a really good methodology and I am going to try it myself! Makes perfect sense! I might try other style food grade containers for farts and giggles! Although the square base of the milk jugs seems like a good thing!
Wow my granny lived in a little place called Patton Village right off of 59. We lived in Cleveland when I was in fourth grade, that was many years ago. I don't remember much about it, we only live there for about a year.
Sent me a package of those seeds. I live in Dallas Texas. I put them in the ground here in January about the 25th or so I didn't think they would come up I thought it would be too cold but they surprised me. We haven't had a hard freeze down here in quite some time so when the temperatures fell I would just lay a blanket over the bed for the night and everything turned out okay.
I'm new to gardening. This looks like something I can do! I'm glad I saw this. And I like the suggestion from another comment. You should call the followers Ervlings! 😂😂 It just works.
Yes, Early Girls produce well. They need a cardboard shade until over knee high or another sort such as climbing beans for shade. By experiment, planting them in groups of four, with a 3 ltr bottle with drain holes expedites watering and promotes deeper roots. Ours have crushed their cages every year, so stake poles with stretched t-shirt ties for extra support. I've heard cheap bras, but never tried that. For lower limbs organization crates can be strategicly placed to keep fruit off the ground, especially before a rain or high humidity. Thank you, from S. Tx.
Why not plant the seeds directly in the ground, cut the bottom off the jug, & put the jug over the area. It can be done with transplants too when they are small. I've done it & it works.
My old man is an otr trucker and he keeps bringing home his empty water jugs that just collect in a shed. I tried putting them thru the wood chipper......I don't recommend doing that. I'm really liking the lettuce idea, easily portable, easily maintained. I'm wondering if I could sell them at my roadside stand? 🤔🤔 love your channel, I'm subbing from northern lower michigan on the coast of lake Huron😁
You are hilarious! Great video! I’ve been using milk jugs all season in all different kinds of ways. I also saved all the toilet paper rolls for mini planters so the seedlings can be planted with them straight into the ground😊👍
Ijaz H that sounds cool but I'm having trouble visualizing exactly what you mean. Are you using the half with the handle or hanging with nails? Are you cutting it half sideways or removing the the top half with the handle?
Aloha I forgot to drill holes in my containers for Potatoes they have been flooded. awesome easy good for Hurricane Season, I can move them into the Shead. Bless Your ❤️ and Family 🤗🏝️🌈
cool idea, i just use the bases, add fine sprinkle of cinnamon on the soil, they grow on my porch, but im gna try this to help save watering time. Cheers Ervs , nice video, kia ora from NZ and also a great way to recycle.
Hi Erv, use the white foam inside the lids to deter white moths: simply cut the white foam into a simple moth shape; push onto a wood scewer and place amongst any vulnerable plants. Moths are territorial!
With the lid off of The Jug, the plants typically get all the water they need from rain. You wouldn't think so, but they do. Unless you live in a very dry or arid climate you should not need to water your milk jugs. As far as feeding goes, if you use a good organic potting mix oh, you should be just fine for the short period of time a plant will live in The Jug.
Thanks. Subscribed! Coincidentally, I have saved half a dozen 2-litre jugs already intending to pot on seedlings maybe to give away. Now I'm thinking I will follow you. I'm experimenting with no-dig using cardboard. I videoed some until my card ran out! I might provide a before and after later in the season, Be careful and keep well, Terry
@@pattywacker6340 I'll see how I get on with it. I might film myself doing the planting through the cardboard and at the final harvest. One video to cover the whole process.
My garden bed use the nodig cardboard method. And I must say it has worked great. Problem is the we'd love to grow in it in the winter and early spring before I plant my garden.
@@pattywacker6340 Yesterday I cut the bottoms off some of the jugs. I had sunflowers to protect from the storm, so I inserted a long cane beside each one then slid the jug down over it. Trouble was the wind was blowing the jug around the cane so I had to push a spare cane down the top hole to anchor it better. Still stormy outside today but all seems well.
Thank you so much for your response and wow!! I would have never guessed I could start outside in the winter. Things are looking up! Thx! Have a blessed weekend ❤🐞🐦🌼
Good idea! It would be a pretty good way to start winter veg in a easy and care-free way, my concerns is how about growing summer plant seedlings in early Feb or March where sometimes weather could get below 0 occasionally while seedlings would not sprout until temperature is as high as 65F. I started seedlings indoors, but it is quite troublesome and needs constant care.
Good point! The seeds won't germinate until the time is right, and the air temp inside the bottle seems to stay high enough. Even through freezes, frosts and snowfall.
Would be a fantastic way, and if you're doing the type of green that you can clip them and they regrow, they never have to leave the bottom of the jug.
You put these out in the middle of the winter when the temperature is at its coldest. Seed love to be frozen. I did a frequently asked questions video on my channel, I recommend watching that. Do not do this after the first Frost, you will likely burn your plants. It can get quite warm inside the milk jug.
I am about to use this method for the second time as I had success following your instructions to sew tomatillos. I grew them in the jug from a slice of a tomatillo. It has yielded 4 plants. I'll be growing various types of peppers this time. Thank you, sir for sharing this with us.
You're welcome!
My mom planted one Early Girl in zone 5 in the midwest in 2019. She had so many tomatoes she ended up canning several pints, giving fruit away and they kept on going and going well into fall. It was an amazing plant. She said they were so tasty and just the right size for one person. So I planted 12 of them in 5 gallon buckets this year in zone 4 because I like to can. They are growing like crazy! So excited. Going to try some of my crops using this method! TFS. 😉
Awesome!
Im looking for winter lettuce! Thankyou.
I use vinegar in my laundry. After rinsing the gallon bottles, I use them for winter sowing. That is a great idea to plant in the garden and just cover with the top of the bottles. Arthritis keeps me out of my big garden, so my husband bought a lot of large pots for me to use on the deck. We also use large plastic buckets. I planted seeds that I saved from an apple that we ate in a vinegar bottle, and they are growing very well!
We have done similar in Texas all my life. We used to take the very bottom off all the way around, plant directly in the ground, and build dirt up around the jug outside. This holds the jug in place during winds.
Another way we use is cut the bottom in half and then cut around the bottom edge and leave about two inches making a flap. Again sow directly in the ground. Cover the flaps with dirt to hold them in place. When, it is past frost, the plants are usually to the top of the jug. Then we just pull the jugs off and grow naturally in the ground
Where do you live in TX? I live in Austin and I’m going use this method this year
Thank you. I had not thought of that. I did try them to plant my herbs this year. So far so good and a lot cheaper than buying planters. I also painted them with some kiltz as I did not want the roots against the walls to burn since I am using them as planters. Used as seed starters I would not paint the jug. I will try this next year to get my plants going and have them set on the porch. I am in Texas and will try to remember and plant early girl. Thank you again and look forward to your next video.
God Bless milk jug garden growers as our temps here in Downeast Maine have been downright chilly! Iplant all my seeds into jugs, with my top starting above the handles (means more manure/dirt). Cabbages, everything works with some plants growing out of the top of jug. The best thing is all plants are hardened, far better to plant than purchased greenhouse plants that need to be hardened.
I agree. This year my garden is all volunteers... believe it or not. They seem to know exactly when to start growing!
This is a genius little mini greenhouse! I love it !!
You can cut slits in the lid caps to keep pairs of socks together in the laundry.
Great idea! I will be sure to try. :)
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lu845carpenter you could go barefoot!
Genius!!! Thanks!
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Thank you for sharing. You are sooooo honest👍😂🤣(Don’t take anything I say seriously, this is my first time trying)
Great Video. I just completed my first milk jug with some herbs for my daughter's rabbits. I am hoping for great results.
Thank you buddy I live in Pennsylvania and we always have white flies and those worms that like to crawl into your squash plants and live off of it while your squash dies, this seems like a really good idea, thank you very much I will try. Many blessings on your garden.
I love this method for seeds! Plus you can spy on them through the top! No bugs in the house either. Thank you!
Great idea for the jugs! I’ve been trying to reuse whatever I can for environmental reasons for years, but now with all this mess going on, I’m trying to reuse what I’ve got to avoid going out to the stores.
So far I’ve learned that a milk jug can be: a cloche, cut a certain way it is a soil scoop or a pet food scoop, with a few pinholes punched in the bottom a milk jug can be a slow release liquid fertilizer jug. Learned that one from another RUclipsr gardener who used it on his fruit trees, and I just use his idea whenever I need to water anything that’s planted on an incline or in really hydrophobic soil. It really worked on my roses that are unfortunately parked on an incline, but a double whammy it’s also heavy clay. Tried it this spring and this is the first year they’ve really taken off. The whole bush jumped a third in height in about a month. It looks like a Christmas tree with the string lights shut off since it’s just covered in buds poised to burst into bloom. Pretty exciting!
I’ll be adding your milk jug mini greenhouses to my list. Thanks for your inspiring video. Keep on growing! ✌️🌱
Ps- no one is judging you for the scissors! 😂 I have two pairs in my garage, a pair for the kitchen, and another set for my plant room. Gotta get the job done ✂️
This is great! I was going to make milk jug skulls for Halloween before I realized melting plastic was pretty toxic. Now I've gt a great use for a garbage bag full of tmilk jugs! Thanks Erv!
This year I tried indoor sowing without much luck and a lot of heartache. I was trying to bypass the garden shops and sow my own. Now I have your idea and I am good to go . Thanks
I'm going to do a video about how I grow my seedlings indoors. It's a pretty low budget setup. It's not ideal, but it works. The biggest thing you have to do is pay attention to the germination temperature of your seeds, and hardening off your plants before you take them outside.
Fantastic video. I'm going to try this tomorrow, thank you Erv! Be well during these times.
You too!
I love your personality! Your videos are interesting because your not boring!
like your humor and method
I love this.I struggle growing my seedlings.
I live in south texas and plated those tomatoes last year and there still growing and producing this year
This method conserves water. And is great to introduce children to gardening.
Use a Phillips screw driver. Heat on stove. Punches right through plastic with a perfect hole. Melts a hole.
Do you ever need to water them?
Cheap soldering iron is my favourite method.
Sunnyforever Always No way! Thank you, I never thought of that!! 😀
Edisto Joe I assume your on Edisto Island. 😀
This is brilliant. Thank you!
I'm definitely going to try this. I have over 100 water jugs to get rid of since you can't drink the water around here.
Thanks. I used one of my old alcohol bottles like that to grow some tomato plants. They did so well. Will try this, as great to grow plants in new ways. I had even left a hinged top. Worked wonderfully. Plants got so big I had to transplant in large styrofoam cup
I transplanted the tomatoes that I planted in this video into plastic Solo cups.
Great video thanks for this! I’m growing tomatoes, peppers and a few varieties of lettuce in jugs. So much better than indoor sowing and much less hassle.
East Texas here. Plant early. Fades out when temperature gets high, but second crop in the Fall.
This is perfect for porch/patio gardening! Thank you! 😀
Thank you for sharing. I keep the lids they make good cheap feet to sit plant pots on for extra drainage.
Am collecting my jugs now to give this a try!
This is the first video I found a couple of months ago on winter sowing. Im now doing it. Thanks!
This method is real game changer! Just don't let your plants get burned once the weather starts warming up.
My Grandpa born in 1900 used to do a variation of this every year to start his tomatos, esp. He put the seeds/seedlings in the ground then put the cut jug top over the plant to protect it and warm it. When the plants were big enough he then just took the jug off and his garden was set. 🙂
This is still a very common practice among the people that do this. It works pretty much just as well.
Wow, thanks. I never thought of that! Kinda cool.
The cut jug over the jug seems like a better way of doing it, really. I wonder if the soil warms up as well though. Inside the jug the soil would be isolated and more exposed to sun so hence, warmer. I might try both methods simultaneously with same seed and see which works best or if there is a difference.
@@GrandmaSezSo : What happened? Thanks.
That’s a great way to start a garden. Thanks for the video and wonderful idea 👍
We used to do this as kids , 20 + years ago. Love it!
I didn't do any milk jugs this year, trying a different type of gardening. I guess I need to do a gardening update for 2019.
Now being severely limited in physical activity gardening is out of the question. Thankful you popped up with possible solution for me! Maybe after we get all moved in we can try it. Have great hope your milk jug garden will work on East Tennessee porch. 👍🏻♥️
Maybe a dumb question but I don’t have time to read all the comments. What do you with them once they start sprouting or growing, leave them in the jug or plant them in the ground?
This is excellent! Will give this a try and share with my friends. Love the sense of humor. Than you greatly for sharing! 🌱❤️🤘🏻
Paint pen, also made by Sharpie, will never fade (because it's paint lol!) They can be purchased in craft stores. Also believe it or not, pencil doesn't fade.
The French used bell shaped glass covers called cloche in the 19th century.
Paint Pens work the best. Oil base ones that you shake up before you use them. They don't seem to fade. I like your yellow duct tape. It gave me a great idea on making yellow soap traps for squash bugs this year...Last year they devastated some big beautiful stands of yellow squash I had going that went flat on the ground within only a couple days. Thanks for the video!
You're welcome, and thanks for watching! I totally forgot about this channel to be honest. Got a job about 8 months ago and stopped gardening. Going to have to post more Garden videos this summer.
Yellow Duct tape!! I will look for some tomorrow as I saw white & yellow tapes for bugs for sale in JohnnySeeds for nearly $20 US. I found Capt. Jack's organic bug spray last year as I have had millions of potato / squash / cuke bugs for years. Inexpensive & works miracles removing my bug problem. I do not spray it where my bees would access it--just in case.
@@ErvsGarden actually important to make comments on your observations from last year NOW, while your video is put up for Spring planning showing this month next weekend many will do what they researched this week.
Honestly, the pen I used in this video did fade, I don't recommend it.
You can use a 2 litre cocacola bottle instead of a milk jug
You are awesome! Thank you for sharing 🙃 very helpful. Gonna go plant some things over here in Rhode island! Wish me luck🤞(attempting spinach, kale, lettuce, herbs, onions, and purple UFO shaped hot peppers)
What a great idea, I will be doing this one day.
I live in Alabama I’ve planted these for years. They are high yield. Grow great in the heat
Great video. We grew Early Girl here in Tampa, FL. Was indeterminate and grew about 10 ft and one plant had 30 tomatos by June 1. I would grow them again in a heartbeat.
I will try this here in Florida . We go through 3 gallons of milk a week so it won`t take long to collect some .
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Thanks Erv for the tip will try. Be safe sir
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So glad I haven't taken my empty milk jugs to the dump yet! We're going to have to try this. We live at a high altitude with a short growing season, but plenty of hot sun in the summer. Looking forward to trying this out! Thanks for sharing, Erv!
Hope you have access to Recycling plastics where you are -- small & large milk/juice jugs are accepted!
This looks like a really good methodology and I am going to try it myself!
Makes perfect sense!
I might try other style food grade containers for farts and giggles! Although the square base of the milk jugs seems like a good thing!
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Good idea! Of course no pesticides either.
Great tutorial! I did this for my broccoli, tomatoes, sunflowers, zinnias and sweet peas! Zone 8a Htx
I had great success with this the year that I did it.
Michele, I am in 8 a too, DFW. i wanted to try this, I hope i have success as you did.
I am a winter sower too! We drink organic milk from carton so i have to improvise and recycle other plastic bottles/containers. 😊
I used some 2 liter coke bottles. They are smaller, but worked fine.
LOVE YOUR HONESTY...WILL TEST OUT THIS METHOD...I NEED EASY...I AM OLD...AND FROM EAST TEXAS. ❤️🇧🇯🖖
I am originally from Houston!
@@ErvsGarden Have you heard of Cleveland ?..50 miles east of big H ? That is where I hide!
Wow my granny lived in a little place called Patton Village right off of 59. We lived in Cleveland when I was in fourth grade, that was many years ago. I don't remember much about it, we only live there for about a year.
@@ErvsGarden That is down the road from me...I have not been there myself in 30 years..I do not go anywhere much anymore..
Great Idea. Just today I planted 50 Bell pepper seeding in plastic cups. Will try this soon. Ty.
Sent me a package of those seeds. I live in Dallas Texas. I put them in the ground here in January about the 25th or so I didn't think they would come up I thought it would be too cold but they surprised me. We haven't had a hard freeze down here in quite some time so when the temperatures fell I would just lay a blanket over the bed for the night and everything turned out okay.
I planted Early Girl here in West TX this year. We will see. YES Duct Tape isn't what it used to be!!!!
I planted early girls last year in northwest Fl.hot and humid in summer,they did well
Great tutorial. Starting seeds indoors is very tricky and expensive too. Thank you.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
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Ingenious, Thanks for sharing. You are courageous from Indiana
What a lovely man, I am going to have a go at this although I only have a small concreted back yard (UK terraced house), I can figure it out...
Good luck!
I've used Early Girl, for yrs, in NE. They're smaller, than some, but work great, for canning. Will usually fit whole, in sm mouth, qt canning jar.
If you are we using for sandwiches. My son slices him up he absolutely goes nuts over them.
I'm new to gardening. This looks like something I can do! I'm glad I saw this. And I like the suggestion from another comment. You should call the followers Ervlings! 😂😂 It just works.
This is a great video.
Yes, Early Girls produce well. They need a cardboard shade until over knee high or another sort such as climbing beans for shade. By experiment, planting them in groups of four, with a 3 ltr bottle with drain holes expedites watering and promotes deeper roots. Ours have crushed their cages every year, so stake poles with stretched t-shirt ties for extra support. I've heard cheap bras, but never tried that. For lower limbs organization crates can be strategicly placed to keep fruit off the ground, especially before a rain or high humidity. Thank you, from S. Tx.
Why not plant the seeds directly in the ground, cut the bottom off the jug, & put the jug over the area. It can be done with transplants too when they are small. I've done it & it works.
This is a great idea, and I know a lot of people do it this way. Great tip! Thanks.
My Grandpa did it that way every year and it worked great in crazy Ks. Spring weather!
What a great idea 👍👍
@@s.engelsman4521 WE also have crazy weather in Illinois where you run your air conditioner in the daytime and your furnace at night!
That’s what I thought he was going to do, but his way is perfect if your growing area is a porch. Also, it makes them transportable. 😀
Love your energy new to your channel cant wait to see more
I use a wood burner and burn holes in bottles when I need them. Even works for buckets.
Well Erv that presentation was brilliant enough to get me to subscribe! Thanks, instant mini greenhouses, WOW!
Thank you for saving our environment.
Great tutorial, Erv! Thank you! I’m going to try this next Feb!
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Thanks for watching! I did this just once, but it was wildly successful.
Soldering iron is great for putting holes in plastic. Just need to do it in a well ventilated area !
My old man is an otr trucker and he keeps bringing home his empty water jugs that just collect in a shed. I tried putting them thru the wood chipper......I don't recommend doing that. I'm really liking the lettuce idea, easily portable, easily maintained. I'm wondering if I could sell them at my roadside stand? 🤔🤔 love your channel, I'm subbing from northern lower michigan on the coast of lake Huron😁
Thanks alot new subbie! I hope to have some new videos posted soon!
Your wife is going to want her kitchen shears back! Thanks for the interesting idea!
Lol. We bought new ones.
really enjoyed your video. I learned allot about how to start plants. thank you.
Thank you for sharing knowledge. This is a great idea.
You are hilarious! Great video! I’ve been using milk jugs all season in all different kinds of ways. I also saved all the toilet paper rolls for mini planters so the seedlings can be planted with them straight into the ground😊👍
How do you keep from the rolls of tp getting so wet? How do you water?
great idea
Wow! I want to try this next spring!
Nice work! We never know when we will get a surprise frost!
I just posted a Frost video to show how I deal with frost actually.
I cut the handle side of the bottle off and fill the half bottle with soil and hang it on the fence. Works great with strawberries.
Ijaz H that sounds cool but I'm having trouble visualizing exactly what you mean. Are you using the half with the handle or hanging with nails? Are you cutting it half sideways or removing the the top half with the handle?
Good idea
Would like a visual of this...
Aloha I forgot to drill holes in my containers for Potatoes they have been flooded. awesome easy good for Hurricane Season, I can move them into the Shead. Bless Your ❤️ and Family 🤗🏝️🌈
NC here. Already carried mine in shed for tropical storm Arthur. (Which was a bust.. better safe than sorry tho.)
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cool idea, i just use the bases, add fine sprinkle of cinnamon on the soil, they grow on my porch, but im gna try this to help save watering time. Cheers Ervs , nice video, kia ora from NZ and also a great way to recycle.
Just in case people are wondering the cinnamon has to do with preventing damping off.
My dad has planted early girls and he is 1.5 hours north of Houston.
They grow well in Texas. Grown them as long as I can remember in Zone 9A.
The early girl tomatoes grow great here in Alabama!! We have a bunch of clay soil and they do fantastic!
Oh wow!
Hi Erv, use the white foam inside the lids to deter white moths: simply cut the white foam into a simple moth shape; push onto a wood scewer and place amongst any vulnerable plants. Moths are territorial!
This video makes me feel good about my self I turned up the brightness on my phone just to see your brightly colored 🦆🦆tape
Obviously I'm kidding but get you some 3M tape it will hold
This such a brilliant idea, am going to propagate perennials, cannot wait to try this, what about watering, feeding
With the lid off of The Jug, the plants typically get all the water they need from rain. You wouldn't think so, but they do. Unless you live in a very dry or arid climate you should not need to water your milk jugs. As far as feeding goes, if you use a good organic potting mix oh, you should be just fine for the short period of time a plant will live in The Jug.
Early Girl Tomatos grow great in TX. Love this method!
Recycling! Yes save money wise! Thanks for sharing
Thanks. Subscribed! Coincidentally, I have saved half a dozen 2-litre jugs already intending to pot on seedlings maybe to give away. Now I'm thinking I will follow you. I'm experimenting with no-dig using cardboard. I videoed some until my card ran out! I might provide a before and after later in the season, Be careful and keep well, Terry
I’d be interested to see how this turns out
@@pattywacker6340 I'll see how I get on with it. I might film myself doing the planting through the cardboard and at the final harvest. One video to cover the whole process.
My garden bed use the nodig cardboard method. And I must say it has worked great. Problem is the we'd love to grow in it in the winter and early spring before I plant my garden.
@@pattywacker6340 Yesterday I cut the bottoms off some of the jugs. I had sunflowers to protect from the storm, so I inserted a long cane beside each one then slid the jug down over it. Trouble was the wind was blowing the jug around the cane so I had to push a spare cane down the top hole to anchor it better. Still stormy outside today but all seems well.
I will try this it looks easy. Thank you
You can leave it out in the snow temps(?) I think I will try it out! So ready for spring! Ohio winters suck 😄
Yeah this is specifically designed for cold snowy weather. If the weather gets too warm it can kill off the seedlings, actually.
Thank you so much for your response and wow!! I would have never guessed I could start outside in the winter. Things are looking up! Thx! Have a blessed weekend ❤🐞🐦🌼
I live in Texas and they do very well
You're cool. Thank you!
Hi thank you for sharing. Could you please tell me the best herbs to grow in 2 and 3 litre milk jugs.
Thank you. Loved your video
Awesome container gardening, funny about the duct tape
We always grew Early ‘girl tomatoes in Houston, TX with great results
I'm originally from Houston! Actually I'm from Galveston County, almost Houston.
I'm from Houston as well .. Now I live in Cleveland, Texas just north of Houston off 59/69
Good idea! It would be a pretty good way to start winter veg in a easy and care-free way, my concerns is how about growing summer plant seedlings in early Feb or March where sometimes weather could get below 0 occasionally while seedlings would not sprout until temperature is as high as 65F. I started seedlings indoors, but it is quite troublesome and needs constant care.
Good point! The seeds won't germinate until the time is right, and the air temp inside the bottle seems to stay high enough. Even through freezes, frosts and snowfall.
Wow thank you for the tips I may do microgreens like this..
Would be a fantastic way, and if you're doing the type of green that you can clip them and they regrow, they never have to leave the bottom of the jug.
@@ErvsGarden Yes I'm going to try and experiment that's for sure..Also I subscribed to your channel keep up the great work...
Thanks!
Txs for sharing..awesome tip..new to this .What is temp.safe to put them outside ?...did you start just after hopefully last frost ?
You put these out in the middle of the winter when the temperature is at its coldest. Seed love to be frozen. I did a frequently asked questions video on my channel, I recommend watching that. Do not do this after the first Frost, you will likely burn your plants. It can get quite warm inside the milk jug.
I would have used pink duct tape but green is alright. This is a great idea for planting