Silly String
Well-Known Member
Do some chicken wire or plastic fencing on the bottom/sides of your outdoor hole, then some dirt, and then your plants. We used to do that for our tulip bulbs or root veggies. More fencing on top around the plants as needed. You can always go all Bill Murray/Caddyshack on those gofers........
I find chicken wire super cheap at garage sales all the time (in the "Free Box" sometimes).
This year we made a vertical planter out of pallets (it's not for weed, but for herbs and flowers). Google "vertical pallet garden", and you can get some cool ideas. If you save your dog food bags (the plastic ones), you can use those as your plastic on the pallet. I don't see why you "couldn't" plant weed in the pallet idea, as that thing holds about 50 gallons of dirt!
Be careful what kind of pallets you get -- you don't want something all gross and treated with who knows what. Furniture stores have pretty clean pallets.
Recycle that dirt from your indoor garden (unless you're doing hydro, I didn't see if you were) for your outdoor grow. With some rabbit poop and other amendments, it'll be better than regular old backyard clay. (You can find rabbit owners who give away manure on Yahoo Groups -- rabbit poop can be added directly to soil, with no time needed for composting b/c it's not a hot fertilizer, like chicken or horse poop).
The free section on Craigslist has been very helpful, but you've got to act lightening fast sometimes for the cool stuff.
Best of luck!
I find chicken wire super cheap at garage sales all the time (in the "Free Box" sometimes).
This year we made a vertical planter out of pallets (it's not for weed, but for herbs and flowers). Google "vertical pallet garden", and you can get some cool ideas. If you save your dog food bags (the plastic ones), you can use those as your plastic on the pallet. I don't see why you "couldn't" plant weed in the pallet idea, as that thing holds about 50 gallons of dirt!
Be careful what kind of pallets you get -- you don't want something all gross and treated with who knows what. Furniture stores have pretty clean pallets.
Recycle that dirt from your indoor garden (unless you're doing hydro, I didn't see if you were) for your outdoor grow. With some rabbit poop and other amendments, it'll be better than regular old backyard clay. (You can find rabbit owners who give away manure on Yahoo Groups -- rabbit poop can be added directly to soil, with no time needed for composting b/c it's not a hot fertilizer, like chicken or horse poop).
The free section on Craigslist has been very helpful, but you've got to act lightening fast sometimes for the cool stuff.
Best of luck!
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