12 Reasons Why I Grow Vegetables in Containers

I am a long time gardener, I am 80 years old. We have 4 acres and have been gardening in the ground, fighting weeds, and bugs =back pain. Your method of container gardening on elevated grow tables is an excellent idea, that will help me to continue gardening in my old age. Thank you.

I am disabled and container gardening has enabled me to keep gardening. I love your grow tables!

this make a lot of sense, I am 76 years old and bending over is not was easy as it was in my 60's.

You NEVER LIE !!!! Easy on the back & knees that's why all my garden this year is going up up up

Hey Hollis, this was just the video to lift my spirits. One additional benefit to container gardening: no dog or cat tootsie rolls near your food. So gross when neighborhood cats use the garden as a bathroom.

The older I get, the more I'm getting into raised beds and container gardening. Thanks for the video, and even as a so-called veteran gardner, I always tend to learn something new watching your videos. Thank you. Have a blessed day.

Great presentation Hollis, people forget that us oldies have back & joint problems. I think your system of raised planting is brilliant 🌍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🌍

My wife saw this and sent me over to watch, thanks for sharing your insights and showing us the grow beds.

The raised container garden (for me so far) has made it so much easier on my knees and back, eliminated slugs, snails and pill bugs from my plants.

Oh my goodness, Hollis, have just changed my gardening life. I really have not planted vegetables because of a lack of space, you have just opened up a whole world of possibilities. Thank you, and blessings to you and Nancy.

I been a truck driver for years, now I like to stay home and star to planting, your videos help me a lot, thank you I star to due, I like to say thank and Good bless U and u family please don't give up

I really love your videos . I’m a Christian and country song writer. I love growing my vegetables in pots but like you I have the space . Keep on posting , great video . 😎🇺🇸😎

I enjoyed this. You have good sound reasons for growing in containers! I think there is something more, I have watched you guys for years now, you like building and growing in containers! Gardening is personal, experienced gardeners will find ways of growing over the years, that are successful and pleasing to them! I feel really close to the Lord when I’m out working in my garden, pure joy! God bless Klaus

I always watch to the end, for the blessing, of course, but also to see that fine boy, Bing Bing.

Years ago, someone either dumped their bunnies, or they escaped. Our yard bunnies are all descendants of those former pets. They expect to be fed, and will actually come on the back porch and thump the door. They have their own tiny garden patch this year to help keep them out of the in-ground plants and away from the house. They won't touch the purple cabbages, but boy do they love the green ones! We eventually hope to catch a few of them to keep as pets and for their spherical outputs to mix back into the garden.

Omg! I don’t know why I didn’t think of a grow table. Thank you so much for sharing! I have been having flooding problems, and I couldn’t think of what to do for my containers. I was on the verge of not having a garden anymore. Blessings to you and your wife!

Some great points here. We do similar (also on a 5 acre plot) but we generally use only two sizes of pot (15 or 30 litres, approximately 3.5 or 7 US gallons). We don't go any smaller for growing things as the wind on our site is just too strong, the bigger containers generally (not always!) stay where they're put when full of damp growing materials. We do our seed starts in reusable heavy duty commercial growers starting trays, we then plant out the plug plants from these to overcome slugs. As for your raised tables for growing and planting, they're a fantastic thing for old and young alike, definitely worth building. Keep up the awesome work here on YouTube. All the best from the wild and windy Highlands of Scotland! 👍🌱

Wow. How refreshing to see a YT channel without the host doing one of those annoying wide eyed open mouth click bait photos. Whenever I see those I never enter their sight because they’re just plain insulting. You’re a treasure and an original, Hollis and your information about gardening is amazing. ❤

Last season I planted a variety of lettuces for the first time. I saw that they were ready for harvesting. I decided to wait until the next day because I was busy that. When I went out the very next morning to harvest my heads of lettuce I saw that the rabbits mowed down my lettuces, as if I hired them to mow my lawn. 😂😂😂 Those rabbits gave them a nice low cut. So this season I will definitely be growing them above ground

You and Nancy have a beautiful garden. I agree that containers are the way to go. My husband grows our peppers and tomatoes in containers. I grew for the first time some Chinese string eggplant in containers. It works wonderfully. Thanks for this video. Gave us some more ideas.