Using our Organic Gardening Kit for
CONTAINER GARDENING

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.

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 forte 7-2-1 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 Forte 7-2-1, 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

Beefsteak Tomato plant (above)

12 Strawberry plants crowded together (above)

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

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 Organic Gardening Kit, BioVam Mycorrhiza, biosol forte 7-2-1 Organic Fertilizer, Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer, Lime-50Lb, Soft Rock Phosphate-50Lb, Gypsum-50Lb, Yucca Extract, Microbe Tea Brewing Kits, Pre-Brewed Microbe Tea, Bio-Peat moss and mushroom compost, Zeolite, Organic 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 solubilizing bacteria, and bacteria that are beneficial organisms 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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