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Yeah, I don't know if I'll try it this year Larry Send a noteboard - 17/01/2013 05:15:09 AM
I have hated gardening ever since I was a kid and my dad made me do it, but there are times that I'd like to take a small patch and grow sunflowers and learn how to harvest them right and make better-tasting seeds and sunflower oil than what I can buy in stores. I've gutted/cleaned fish before, but never a chicken. Best of luck on that! :P

Extracting oil can be challenging, but it sounds neat. Let me know how it works for you, if you try it. You can grow lots of stuff in containers. One project we did with my after school youth was a spaghetti sauce garden in a 5-gallon bucket. It had soil, tomato plant, bell pepper, basil and oregano plants. Seeds planted were: onion (3 bulbs), and zucchini. The kids took the buckets home for the summer. Some had more success than their parents had! We invited some of the kids back to the office over the summer for a food prep/nutrition lesson. We made spaghetti sauce from the stuff we planted in the buckets. The first week of school, we did the food prep again for those who didn't do it earlier. By "we" I mean that the kids did most of the chopping and cooking. Slap choppers came in really handy for this!


Never tried growing anything in a bucket/plastic container because I grew up living on 8 acres of land and a quarter-acre or so of it was plowed up and turned into a garden when we moved here in 1980. I would think it might actually make for an easier gardening experience, with the smaller scale and not as many weeds to worry about, not to mention erosion issues.

This year, I am going to try potatoes in Rubbermaid totes. Directions say you can just toss a little straw on top of the roots instead of hillng the plants. If needed, you can tip the tote on its side and keep covering with straw. To harvest you dump the bucket. Can't wait to try it!


Having used a mattock several times to dig up the potatoes, I like your proposed method a lot more! :D
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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