Our Affordable Gardening Products sold on this web site, which we call Natures Own Growing System, include BioVam Mycorrhiza, Biosol Mix 7-2-3 Organic Fertilizer, Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer, Yucca Extract, Microbe Tea Brewing Kits, Zeolite, Organic White Gold Bar Soaps, Just Like Sugar Natural Sweetener, and Spider Elimination Kits. Most of these products are used to grow high brix plants which are high in nutrient (mineral and vitamin) content.

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Using our Organic Gardening Kit for
CONTAINER GARDENING

BioVam Enhanced Container gardening, Tray garden: Our Natures Own Growing System Microbe Tea and BioVam products provide the soil life which transform nutrients into a form best utilized by your plants.  Our Biosol Mix 7-2-3 and Planters II fertilizers provide Plant Nutrient sources as food for the soil life and plants.  When this kind of system is put into action in your container gardening or tray gardening efforts, tomato plants with 50+ fruit per plant are normal yields.

BioVam Mycorrhizae on plant roots combined with periodic applications of Natures Own Growing System Microbe Tea, Biosol Mix 7-2-3 organic fertilizer, Planters II Minerals, Lime, Soft Rock Phosphate, Gypsum and Iron Sulfate can transform potting soil into a living soil environment for container gardening.  Plant cell development is prolific when these products are used to grow plants.  Plant flavors are maximized.  Plant health, vitality and yields are maximized.  Grow plants inside during the winter and outside during the spring, summer and fall months.  This is the answer for container gardening for apartment renters.  Grow fresh veggies all year long no matter where you live.  No weeds to pull when you use this gardening method.  

     If you want superior results with your gardening efforts, you are in the right place.  Look through the sequence of pictures below that show how to construct your own container or tray garden using organic ingredients sold by T&J Enterprises.  

This type of gardening doesn't require as much work as a larger garden, it's a little more flexible. You can move the containers from one place to another and you can make the growing season last a little longer by moving the plants.

I purchased an 18 gallon stirilite plastic tub and lid on sale for about $3.95 and drilled six, one inch holes in the bottom so water can drain out.  Optionally, the holes can be drilled in the sides near the bottom.

 

 

A cement mixer will save you a lot of time mixing up the soil each year... especially when you get to about 30 tubs or so.

No matter what kind of container you choose, it should have holes at the base or in the bottom to permit drainage of excess water. You should watch using dark-colored containers because they absorb heat which could possible damage the roots. If you do use dark-colored pots, try painting them a lighter color or shading just the container.

I use a cement mixer to mix up my potting soil ingredients.  A wheelbarrow would work also.  The potting soil with our added ingredients make a system that supports the growth of high quality plants.

"THE RECIPE" for 2 square feet (the surface area of one tub).
1/2 cup of Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer.
1 cup of Biosol Mix 7-2-3 Organic Fertilizer.
1 cup of mixed ingredients from the Calcium Kit (lime, soft rock phosphate, gypsum).
2 cubic feet of potting soil without fertilizer added (Nursery Mix, or Compost).
1-2 gallon pails of perlite for subsequent years growing medium.  Perlite is not used the first year.  It is used after the first year to loosen up the growing medium. 

Note:  the growing medium can be a variety of different products.  Potting soil, Nursery Mix, Compost, etc.  The main thing is do not use a growing medium to which chemical fertilizers have been added.  This system releases a lot of energy and will cause all the chemical fertilizers to be released at the same time and that can burn your plants. 

Apply the fertilizer ingredients (Planters II, Biosol Mix, Calcium kit mix) to the top of the growing medium and mix into that growing medium with your fingers.

After the ingredients are all mixed together, move the tub to it's new location.  You may want to have the tub in it's final location and then put the growing medium and fertilizers into it because the whole thing can be quite heavy to lift. 

Now you are ready to plant your seeds or transplants. 

For seeds:  make a furrow or depression.  Put down BioVam where you are going to place your seeds.  Set the seed on top of the BioVam.

For Transplants:  Make your planting hole.  Apply BioVam to moistened roots or potatoes and plant into the tub.

After you have planted your seeds or transplants in your tubs, apply our Microbe Tea with Yucca Extract added as a soil drench to your tub (s).  The Yucca Extract will make a significant difference on the plant germination stage, growth stage, and fruiting stage.  Seeds will germinate faster and the plants will grow to have large root systems as well as large above ground systems due to the plant cell cleaning properties of the Yucca Extract that allow more effective uptake of water and nutrients into plant cells.

There are lids that are sold with those tubs and you can set the tub on the lid and thus use the lid as a catch tray for water you add to the tub from time to time.  Outside on the ground, you won't need the catch tray.  If you set your tub on a patio, you may want to have that lid underneath the tub so you don't stain the concrete.

 

Container Garden Exhibits (watered by a drip system)
All plants are treated with BioVam Mycorrhiza and Natures Own Growing System Tea

For larger vegetables like tomatoes and eggplants, you should use a five gallon container for each plant. You can grow these plants in two gallon containers, however; you need to give the plants considerably more attention.

Regulating how much moisture your plants get is very important. Generally, your vegetables will need about an inch of water per week over all the soil where the roots grow. You can determine when to water your plants by checking the soil down to a depth of a half-inch. Soil should be moist down that far and this may mean you'll need to water some of the plants twice a day some days.

Beefsteak Tomato plant (above)

12 Strawberry plants crowded together (above)

One of the big advantages of container gardening is that the plants can be moved. Plants least tolerant to shade are fruit-bearing crops such as tomato, cucumber, squash, pepper, etc. The intermediate light crops are root crops such as beets and radishes. The crops most tolerant to shade are the leafy crops such as greens, parsley and lettuce. However, the leafy crops will grow best in full sun.

Black Krim Tomato plant (above)

First Ripe Black Krim (above)

Zucchini Squash (above)

Celebrity Tomato plant (above)

Grape Tomato plant (above)

Grape Tomato fruit (above)

Sweet 100 Tomato plant

Better Boy Tomato plant

Container Super Fantastic Tomato plant (above)

Early Girl Tomato plant (above)

Bell, Anaheim, Jalapeno pepper plants (above) 

Bell and Thai Super Hot Pepper plants (above)

50+ Thai Super Hots on this plant.

Ripened Thai Super Hots  09-05-2001
(We used the dehydrator on these.)

Great looking Anaheim peppers

Zucchini is perfect for frying slices.

Beefsteak Tomato Plant pruned, and moved inside at first frost.

First Beefsteak harvest from inside plant.
10-08-2001

We have grown Beefsteak tomatoes for years out in our garden soils, but we have never been able to grow this size tomato until we switched over to container gardening.  The Tomato on the left weighed in at 1 lb 10 oz.  It was the largest from this plant.  We had several tomatoes over one pound.

Slim pickings at the end of the year.  When the evenings are cool and the days are warm, the flavors take a nice jump.  We had an excellent harvest at the end of the year to make some really tasty tomato sauce.

Picture taken:  09-25-2001

Two seed potatoes produced 38 Yukon Gold potatoes in our 2002 container gardening experiment.  It's normal to get about seven tubers per plant.  We grew 19 per plant.  That's 10 lbs of potatoes from two plants. 


Natural Organic Products that Work!

Our Affordable Gardening Supply Products, which we call Natures Own Growing System, include Product Brochures, BioVam Mycorrhiza, Biosol Mix 7-2-3 Organic Fertilizer, Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer, Yucca Extract, Microbe Tea Brewing Kits, Pre-Brewed Microbe Tea, Bio-Peat moss and mushroom compost, Zeolite, Organic White Gold Bar Soaps, Just Like Sugar Natural Sweetener, and Spider Elimination Kits (spider traps). Most of these products are used to grow high brix plants which are high in plant nutrients (mineral and vitamin) content.

People interested in these products are back yard gardeners, farmers, farm crop management, flower growers, home and garden supply companies, house plant growers, landscapers, lawn care companies, plant nursery owners, organic farming, organic gardening, urban gardeners, and those who wish to pursue container gardening methods. Those interested in bettering their diets and health use our products to grow highly nutritious foods. 

The application of these products supports agriculture soil in general but has many specific applications on this web site for arborvitae, artichokes and asparagus, apple trees, asparagus fern, black leaf fungus on quaking aspen trees, bulbs and flowers, cactus, celery, chard, chrysanthemum, citrus trees, cotton, cosmos, cucumbers, eggplants, fairy rings in lawns, frost protection on Asian pear fruit trees, garlic, growing fruit trees, herbs, lettuce, maple trees, melons, necrotic ring spots in lawns, onions, pansy, peas, pears, promotion of earthworms in the soils, potatoes, pumpkins, raspberries, radishes, red hot chili peppers, rose plants, turf grass management of blue grass and all other kinds of grasses, spinach, stone fruit, strawberries, sugar cane, tomatoes, wine grape, vine and vineyard management, zucchini and squash of all kinds, many different vegetables and several thousand other specific plants - virtually everything grown on farms and in gardens aimed at plant and root enhancement. Numerous pictures are present in a variety of exhibits.

Contained in these products are soil life forms that are often found in some compost tea brewing kits but are much more effective in our BioVam Mycorrhiza product and our Microbe Tea Brewing kits. Organisms like, mycorrhiza fungi (endomycorrhiza fungi and ectomycorrhiza fungi), nitrogen fixing bacteria, phosphorous solubalizing bacteria, and bacteria that out compete plant pathogens are found in our BioVam product. Nitrogen fixing bacteria, cellulose eating trichoderma fungi, and many beneficial soil organisms are found in our Microbe Tea Brewing Kits.      


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