After Seeing This EVERYONE Will Be Buying Blue Plastic Kiddie Pools!

I'm on my 3rd year using wicking bags inside a kiddie pool. I used them on my driveway where I had great sun but no dirt. I love the burlap idea! A trick I also discovered was to put half a Mosquito Dunk in each one to keep mosquitoes out of the water. Also, I drilled a hole about 2-3 inches from the bottom on the side wall so heavy rains would not drown my plants.

I use the 42 inch wide size pool. It will hold six 5 gallon buckets and one in the center. I fill the space between the buckets with wood chips. I have five pools so far. The reason I am doing this is because I am planning to move to a rural area and I want to be able to load my garden onto a trailer and take it with me when I move.

Many years ago I was undecided about where I wanted a garden so I planted all my tomatoes in pots. They grew and produced beautifully however in southern Wisconsin frost can happen early. I brought the kiddie pool into our 3 season room which had windows east and south facing. All my plants in their outdoor pots fit in the pool and, with help from a grow light, produced fruit through December. The pool went outdoors in late spring returning to it's original use.

I like the burlap idea. I'm in Phoenix where the sun deteriorates those pools in one year. Plus it looks more natural than those bright blue pools. I use 5 or 10 gallon bags in mine and fill in the spaces with pebble rock up to about 4 inches. I keep 3 inches of water in the pool. I drill a hole at 3.5 " in case it rains it won't drown my plants. Having the water below the top level of the rocks keeps the moquitoes from breeding. Anyway, I grew corn in 2 kiddie pool/grow bag setups and it did fabulous. I also grew pumpkins in another. I also set small bags or pots of marigolds here and there in the pools.

I used a kitty pool for a dirt bath for my chickens. Bought it 6 years ago and it’s still holding up great and that’s with dirt inside it. No covering at all. Although I did put a patio umbrella cut down in height some that sits over the pool to help keep the rain out of the dirt bath and also helps hide the chickens from flying predators too! Funny though, put a dirt bath in a kitty pool and never considered using it to grow vegetables in! Actually these kitty pools might also work as a design for a key hole garden where you take chickens wire and make it into a circle ⭕️ and put it in the center of the pool. Then you add your growing dirt on the outside of the circle leaving the inside of the circle to put in kitchen scraps and anything else that can compost down to fertilize your garden plants at the same time as your plants grow. This method was used in other countries for decades and still being used today.

I just ordered everything but the kiddie pools and will pick them up next week. Thanks. 65 yr old lady living in VA Mtns needing gardening idea or rental property. I am so grateful to you. Blessings. 🙏🇺🇸❤️💥🍀

Great idea to cover the blue with burlap. I've used kiddie pools for gardening for several years and they have yet to get brittle or break down from UV/Radiation rays. I get the same pools at Thrift Stores for a couple of dollars or pick them up FREE off the curbside where people have thrown them out in the city. You usually find them at the end of summer in my area. They are PERFECT for shallow rooted plants. This year I have onions & garlic planted in some and will plant yellow squash & zucchini in a couple others. I use the large 25 gallon cattle mineral tubs for the rest of my raised bed gardening. A local cattle farmer lets me have them for $3 each and they are super heavy plastic that have lasted me 5+ yrs & counting My soil is red clay & iron rock so I can't garden IN GROUND but I can grow in anything that will hold soil. I have used the wooded shipping crates that some companies give away for free just to get them out of their way. They don't last but about 5 yrs before the bottoms rot out but when you need something to use for growing FOOD, you will use what you can find & your budget allows. I'm also using the tubs from washing machines. Those can be painted to keep them from rusting and look nice in the garden. I'm also using an old bath tub, tilted slightly so the water will drain. I covered the drain with screen & rocks to keep it from getting clogged. I'm not TOO PROUD or ashamed to use what I can find to plant my veggies in. These days with the economy as it is I'm more concerned about growing FOOD than what others (or myself) think about what I use to garden in. No one sees it but me & the critters here in the deep back woods. I call it REDNECK gardening at its finest! Love all your ideas for gardening as well as the different things I've learned about to plant that I've never seen or heard about. I had been wondering why I had not been seeing any video's from you the last few months. I found that "SOMEONE" had unsubscribed me to your channel when I did a search for you. I saw you commenting in a chat on a livestream with DSH with Danny & Wanda & went to check why I wasn't getting notifications for your channel...Guess someone out there didn't want me seeing your video's for whatever reason. Glad to be able to get my FIX again & to hear your great singing that I really enjoy, too!

My friend uses kiddy pools and makes them concrete pots. He covers the outside plastic and up over the lip down into the dirt line with dishcloths dipped in concrete. Sort of like paper mache, but concrete and cloth. You now have large concrete pots with no sun exposure for plastic outgasing into the water. Some were direct planters and some He used 2 kiddo pools together to create a deep saucer. It works.

I love the smell of creativity in the morning!

I use mine because of moles. I love the blue color. My centers have a featured item. 1 has a bird bath, one has nothing but strawberries with strawberry pots and woodchips and some soil and overflowing with more strawberries, one has a tomato tree planter (the kind that grows tomatoes upside down) for my cherry tomatoes and then 4 more plants in grow bags around it. One is just for tomatoes but my favorite is full of flowers, and this year one is going to be a Salad Bowl, lots of lettuce and greens. I got the idea from you a few years back, this is my 3 yr using them.

I'm a cheapskate. Using 125 or 250 gallon bags (backfolded once), local dirt at the bottom and topped of with 6 inches of compost. Most of the 26 builders bags now in use, I got for free. First bags are 7 yrs old and still going strong. No need to buy compost, garden waste and kitchen scraps produce enough for a 1 inch layer of compost for the no-dig beds every year. It's weird but the backyard grown veggies taste way better than the the stuff from the supermarket

Yes. I have heavy duty plastic folding tables in my yard and put my container plants on them. It’s a game changer

My pool is set up for the second year to grow sweet potatoes. Worked great last year! I just drilled holes and placed it on four concrete blocks to raise it a bit to be easier on my back.

Put guppies in the water area to naturally fertilize and take care of mosquitos

I have 6 kiddie pool beds. The cost was $0. I look for them on garbage day in the fall when I am driving to go someplace. I put them in my garage/giant garden shed for next spring. Parents often toss them out when it starts getting cold. Often they have a small hole in them, but since I am adding drainage holes it doesnt matter to me. The oldest is 4 years old and its still in great shape, its likely 5 years old as the person who tossed it out likely used it the summer before I found it.

I make holes on the side about 3-4 inches hight around the pool, put 1/2 '' rocks in it and place the grow bags on the rocks. I put water high enough but not over the rocks to constantly have water in the pool and voila you will not have dry issue and my tomatoes or what ever you plant will be moist at all time and it worked for me (sorry for my english, I'm french from Quebec, Canada)

I am a new subscriber to your channel today. I am disabled so the suggestions you made for raising the pools to wheelchair heights will work for me. I have been using retail milk jug containers for height when planting my Yukon gold, Norland, Kennebec, German fingerling potatoes, and sweet potato slips. I can now use my wooden pallets for the pools to plant my other vegetables. Shalom.

Thank you for sharing. Ideas are running through my head. Pile pallets as high as you want in as many rows as you need. Use the pool as a raised bed garden.

I've got 2 for strawberries and 2 for lettuce. I suggest using a drill with a large bit to prevent drainage holes from getting clogged.

Put pea gravel in between the kiddie pool and planter just high enough to reduce access by mosquitoes