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Gardening in containers is catching on fast and the eBucket is a great container, simple to build, inexpensive and very productive. Our goal is to FEED THE WORLD , ONE BUCKET AT A TIME. This blog shows how it can be done. http://mckarion.wordpress.com/

ninnymary, I use square foot spacing and single 5 gallon ebuckets which hold appx 4 gallons of container mix I also am using 10 gallon storage bins converted to self watering containers that hold appx 8 gallons of container mix. Roughly (very) this is about what would be in a square in...

digitS, I live in what is known as the Piedmont region of SC., in the NW section of the state zone 8. Cool weather crops go in around March 1 but we are cautioned that warm weather cropping would be better delayed til April 15; the suggested date for setting tomatoes, for example is May 1...

http://mckarion.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/pushing-spring/ I aint going to wait that long! I wont, I got to have a dirt grubbing, finger nail busting fix NOW!! Whew! thank goodness, I know about alternative gardening methods.

Here is an excellent article on heirloom tomatoes by heirloom grower Gary Millwood http://mckarion.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/heirloom-tomatoes-are-a-treasure/

Blackthumb, wish pictures could be posted here. I am sending sites where we show our Ebucket and earthbox results. I am gessieviolet in these post. Pictures of Ebuckets and earthbox plantings http://l7641.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/grandpa-would-have-laughed-and-called-us-fools/...

Hello, I am new to TheEasyGarden, but I just have to chime in here and tell about my container garden last summer. Using a design that a group of growers and I came up with, we had fantastic results with our Ebucket and self contained storage box planters. These containers are self watering...

I never knew there were so many varieties of tomatoes. Here's one collectors story. http://mckarion.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/heirloom-tomatoes-are-a-treasure/

Drats, I guess I can't link to my own photo on another site. Try this it should link to a posting on a page. This is the box of 2 tomatoes that finally topped out at 12+ feet. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=6560317 I checked on the actual size of these containers this one...

I can't locate a really good picture of my box (i'll keep looking). Here is one planted with peppers. They are just getting started. I think my fingers got ahead of my brain on stating the size I don't believe this is 30 gallons (i'll check that for sure also)...

I have arthritis that can prevent my working in a conventional garden. There are just 2 of us who eat from the garden; we do not save produce. In north central South Carolina (zone 7b-8a) sometimes have limited summer rains and watering a conventional garden would not be cost effective...

If it can be grown in an Earthbox style container it can be grown in the bucket. The bucket is just small, about 12 inches across, so usually one plant grows best per bucket. I actually grew squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, okra, swiss chard, in 5 gallon buckets last summer. Just wasn't...

You put water into the big white tube mine is a piece of 2 inch pvc water pipe) I that sticks out of the top of the bucket. The drinking straw (a spill tube) goes into a little hole in the sides of the bucket and colander so you know when to stop pouring water into the fill pipe. maybe this...

Okay try this. l am learning too. Sorry. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=7023147 The instructions in the original article that you get by clicking the highlighted words pretty much sums up how it becomes a self watering bucket.

Punkinpeep, love that name! its just a five gallon bucket (I use pickle buckets from a fast food place) with a colander in the bottom. You will get a pretty good idea if you click on words in the first sentence of the article "self watering bucket" which is highlighted.

This idea helped me grow fantastic tomatoes last summer. It's easy, and so inexpensive! http://mckarion.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/plant-your-grow-bucket/