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Do you have an organic remedy for "squash bugs"? About the time my cucumber and squash start going really well in come those little monsters and destroy my crop.
@@annh3599 thank you for this information because I was saving my coffee grinds to put in the soil but didn’t know that it will help with mosquitoes. I collect rainwater so this is great!!!. Thanks so much for sharing.🪴🪴🪴happy gardening y’all.
Last year was my 1st yr growing hydroponics; and I was aghast when I saw larvae in the water; mosquitoes attached their eggs to the plants and swam in the water; I couldn’t find another person who had this problem, I thought I was the only one…….. mosquitoes were really bad last year, and it’s turned me off to hydroponics; I’m really afraid of seeing that larvae again; so coffee grinds mixes with masterblend and kills larvae but does not effect the ingredients ?!
Put holes in the kiddie pool at the side half way up or to whatever the level of water u want. When u put soil in ur pots put old leaves and bits of twigs half way up then add the soil. Put the pots aside after u harvest and leave as it is over the winter and when planting time comes dump the soil in the wheel barrel and mix. The leaves and twigs will be mulch to help u reuse the soil .
I was thinking holes on the side would be easier. That color in a neighborhood would look crash. I saw one container gardener use natural burlap, by the yard and covered up his various containers . That would fir into a neighborhood land scape. I thought th I s would be clever to stack the bricks. Taller in the middle and lower on the sides. Plants would get more sun that way. On a small scale it would be great for strawberries. Thanks for posting this. A springboard of creative ideas to container gardening!
Years ago, I did something similar with plastic cement mixing bins minus the soil in pots. I use them as my pineapple nursery which I keep in half shade under the eaves of an out building where rain and condensation keep the bins wet most of the year. I drilled holes about 4 inches up only the sides of the bins. I always have pineapple starts to plant every year. I added mosquito fish, gameso, and they live and poop in the water. Cheap.
I put my tomato plants close together last year and they 'held hands' like a Family. 😄 And my seedlings that I let grow together grew bigger and stronger faster than the ones that were solo. I think they like company too. 🤷🏻♀️
Can I ask what size containers did you use and what type of tomato plant? I'm in Missouri, hot and humid in summer and I honestly don't know what tomato I can grow in the sand bags that I bought. Thanks
@@JDB2308👋🏼 I'm an apartment gardener, and only get three hours of evening sun on a quarter of my balcony at the height of summer, so I always try not to plant things the same way in case one way doesn't work. I think I used 4 pots, both plastic and Terra cotta, 8 & 10 inch. They were lined up in a row against the railing. The tallest one held on to the two closest, then they held on to the others. I used cherry tomato seeds from the kitchen. Now I'm wondering if they should be planted in bunches, like how the seeds are all together. I don't have the space to try though.
Hahaha there is an entire segment of society that trips to the dollar store for the exciting butterfly net! To give to the kids for the darn cabbage moth
This is the first time I've seen your show and now I am a subscriber. When you sing the song about the kitty pool I was completely sucked in to your void and now I must binge watch. Also the natural pest control idea is classic! Love this
Oh my goodness this is hands down the most entertaining, hilarious gardening video I have ever watched. I literally laughed out loud at least 8 times. I may have guffawed a few times and will admit to snorting at least once. But to all those people with the bright idea of adding little fishies to the kiddie pool- BAD IDEA! The first 100 degree day is going to turn your little aquaponic pets into mosquito sized pool rafts. ASK ME HOW I KNOW. Its been 7 years and my kids still haven't let me live it down. Its a pretty barbaric way of brewing home made fish emulsion...and IMO you are better off spending the $ on those mosquito cakes or whatever those things are that you recommended. IDK...I never tried it again and all my kiddie pools are full of potting soil now. Which the squirrels find delightful.
I don't have any issues with mosquitoes, I use 8, 5gallon grow bags per kpool and filled in river rock pebbles in between, punch a drain hole 3" on pool..been a couple seasons now and love em. Hubby ran overhead drip irrigation, 1 per pool so now I don't even have to water and I have a veggie garden oasis, my plants are huge and beautiful. I would've rather had beds but this was cheap alternative..works 👍
David the Good is HILARIOUS! I burst out laughing at the kiddie pool song and then again in the end with the "Fruit salad spoon" lyrics! Hahahahahaha! I once looked for hours for a "David the Good" video where he ties his shoes in the beginning because I felt like laughing.
Did this years ago for even cheaper and you don't need "rescue pavers." Instead of using plastic pots, I used the blue Wal Mart reusable PET shopping bags. They work well as grow bags (and cheap!). Roots air prune themselves. Corn does especially well this way. Placed mosquito dunks for ponds in the pool to thwart mosquitos.
Hi my name is Esther and I live in California. This is the first video I have watched of yours and I want to tell you I love your music! I usually complain about people's music but yours is about the plant and I really really enjoyed it thank you thank you thank you
For mosquitos try putting a few feeder fish like goldfish in the little pool. If they survive,-they usually do, they eat the larvae and thrive themselves. Poorman's aquaculture...
We just bought 3 kiddie pools to water our 1 gallon pots with sawtooth oak trees. Close to the bottom we put pvc connectors with screw on caps. When we want to give them a good drink of water we will just screw on the cap or unscrew the cap to drain after a heavy rain. Heat indexes over 100 makes everything super thirsty.
For mosquitoes in your kiddie pool garden, I read where people put coffee in the water to prevent the mosquitoes from laying eggs. I don't know if this works, but I did read this!
The rotten wood is a main staple in my mixes. I have a bunch in my yard from years of logs and unused firewood breaking down, along with a stump here and there. It adds a ton of nutrients, as well as lightening the soil mixture. I also add a little composted grass. It's hügelkultur fast-forwarded. The difference is that most people never turn their HK beds to get the good stuff at the bottom; they forget all about it. I see old kiddy pools on the side of the road all the time. I never thought to do this! Next one I see is coming home though, for the containers on the back patio. Thanks for the idea!
I have thought of using kiddie pools, but never tried it - just always used individual bowls and such. I bet one could buy lots of kiddie pools dirt cheap at the end on the summer at Walmart or Family Dollar.
@@jenningsrountree5361 I bought 8 of them this spring, and I'm using them for watermelons, squash, peanuts and some spuds my sister gave me last month. I drilled a 1/2" hole 2" up at every rib (16), so it leaves some pooling at the bottom. They are working great, not only as giant watering saucers, but also as containers themselves!
I used some kiddie pools last year. Carrots in fabric pots did really well. Also, a little bonus, I put pulled weeds, grass clipping and some unfinished compost in the bottom so it was essentially making compost tea every time I put water in the pool.
Going to let my husband see this, he thinks I'm a crack pot! 😂 I also wash out really well the heavy made dog food bags when empty to use for planting or a mulch bag. Thank you for your tips! Greetings from Augusta Georgia ❤️🇺🇸💫
@@cadavher Keep it flat,slice an opening for a plant, make sure you poke holes in the bottom and sides for drainage.. You can probably still have the bags flush against a fence if you want as your probably going to need to stake and tie your growing plants as they grow and fill out. Happy gardening 🥬🌽🥕 🍅🥬
lolz. I freakin love your songs. My children hear you playing and they run into the room excitedly yelling "moms watching David the Good!!" family friendly
*I TOTALLY did the kiddie pool thing and elevated my plants as well keep my plants alive when I went out of town last year. Great minds think alike. I have the same Hori Hori as well*
Basil and marigolds would appreciate that tomato plant shade, and draw pollinators. You could also throw a goldfish in there to eat the mosquitos and add nutrients to the roots.
I have standing water in my back yard, after heavy rains. I had a drain there; but, over the years, it seems to have become filled. I buy a large bottle of cheap vegetable oil and keep it available; I sprinkle it and coat the top of the large puddles. It might not be a perfect process; but. It does reduce the hordes of mosquitoes in my hot Texas yard.
This method works great in our zone 9b. I drill a hole a few inches up the side for drainage. I also compost around the edges with leaves or chop n drop for extra fertility or moisture retention. The blue pools are ugly but ive draped the edges with burlap at times. Thanks for teaching us another way DTG! 🕊 P. S. LOVE the butterfly netting solution !
Fountain pump for aeration + mosquito larvae blender ??? I use the little ones when I have standing water and don't want bacteria growth. Just lay it on its side and it will stir the water like a Jacuzzi jet.
Larry Hall did "kiddie pool gardening" for years before he passed away. It works great if you live in an area that has long dry spells. Here in East Texas it's like a box of chocolates - "ya never know what yer gonna get". We can have weeks and weeks of rain followed by weeks and weeks of drought. I grow everything in containers or raised beds. My first garden I started (where we live now) was 5 gallon buckets in a kiddie pool that my kids outgrew. Keep up the awesome content. I love your sense of humor.
I'm trying something similar, I have hard clay soil so I dug 2-3 foot pits and put logs in the bottom and did a lasagna bed on top so hopefully the logs underneath will soak up water and act as a reservoir
About 15 years ago, there were some people in south Georgia growing weed in the woods using the same kiddie pool method. It worked well for them until they got caught.
I use the kiddy pools as well. I also take a flower pot and put drainage holes 1 inch up the side, 4 all around it and plant in them. The pots hild an inch of water and won't flood the plants with the drainage holes. Barely have to water, maybe once a week or 10 days. Happy growing 💜
I do similar idea but even more mix stretching using the $6 18gal totes at Walmart. Using a 1/4” drill I put two holes a couple inches up at one end and then two at the opposite end. Keeps a few inches of water at all times in the bottom and drains when it rains or gets over watered. Woodchips inside up to holes then greens then brown and green lasagna stack. Then a few inches of potting mix on top of lasagna and plant into that. Wicking and composting at same time.
Your the only channel who finally spoke on something I couldn’t find anyone else talking about: mosquito larvae; I made a vertical bucket hydro Kranky system and was appalled when I saw larvae swimming around; ….but they never made it into my horizontal container bucket; net cups and clay pebbles should deter them because I used pool noodles and the plants became too heavy and dropped down and also, I drilled a small hole for drainage for rain; one of these ways was how they got in; it was a HUGE hassle in cleaning all the buckets……
There are many types of kiddo pools. I got a rubber material that I can condition from time to time. It breaks down super easy and stores even easier. I’ve used it for watermelon plants as a reservoir. Cloth planter, 50 gallon in a 4x4 round kid pool. I had to cover the gap between the planter and the pool though. We get a lot of bugs where I am. June bugs... they just dive right into water like they were fish! Pools have many great uses! Find yours and save on water!
My tomatoes love jalapeño. Tomato plant jalapeño then tomato so on and so forth. Plant mosquito plants on the out side of the pool. I did that around my pond. Planted citronella an geraniums that was citronella scent. It worked
All of my garden is in containers. I put each container into a disposable roasting pan. That is kept full of water. Makes a barrier to bugs and keeps them watered.
I picked up a little float ball valve and attached it to the side of a watering trough and then fed that with several rain barrels. You could do that with the pool, for those dry times you either feed it from barrels or a faucet (although leaving a faucet on when gone seems like a risk to me).
Here is a better way to control the moisture with your system. Double the amount of pots. Get some jute rope. Line the pool with pots like you have done in the video. Cut lengths of rope 2x the height of the pots you use. Embed 2 or 3 lengths of rope in each pot then fill pot with pea gravel as you even space the lengths of rope in each pot. Add another level of pots ontop of the bottom ones. Feed the rope through the holes in the bottom of the top pots then fill top pots with potting soil around the rope evenly. You now have a proper wicking bed
I have done this for years on top of tables. Works great. Celery esp loves it. I did expand into combining 2 theories. I have a bottom pot of weeds and leaves and a little soil. It wicks the water into the top pot. Creates it's own compost. I use that compost the following year for my winter sowing.
Ok, I need more info. A pool, a pot with weeds and leaves and soil, in that a pot with soil and plant (food source) of choice and no pavers? Have I got that right? That sounds like a win win there!!
Yes Teressa the kiddy pool has an inch or two of water. I drill a drainage hole. If I need to hold more water I just plug it. It also catches the rain. I keep a bucket under the hole and catch the xtra rain water. My bottom pot has weeds and leaves topped with a little dirt. I stack another pot on top of it. The roots of that plant can go through the holes and feed on the compost. The water wicks up into the pots.
Wow! Thanks! I'm excited to try this. I might try small scale at first. If I have the idea correctly would this work: a plastic tub from the dollar store as the bottom water holder and then two 5 gallon buckets with holes in the bottoms stacked into each other sitting in the water tub. The bottom bucket that sits directly in the tub contains the leaves, sticks, dirt and such and then the top bucket would hold the dirt and plants right? And the water should wick up through the soil in the bottom bucket into the soil of the top bucket and the roots could access the water and soil/nutrients in both buckets?
This is an excellent idea.. I like the paver idea.. I've stuck plants in a kiddie pool before.. but then had the same problem you mentioned.. an afternoon downpour in central Florida and the pool fills up, pots start floating and tipping over, and things drown.. a day or two later I wander by, and my plants are now a slimy mess. Also.. my husband is one of those mosquito patrol people who will dump out a bucket of water, even if I have mulberry cuttings stuck in there trying to see if they root while I figure out where to stick them.. (I have hoarder tendencies.. and I hate throwing away anything that might grow).. so if there are bricks in the pool, maybe that will deter him from dumping it.. lol.. Nice song too..
I had to laugh about your husband being on mosquito patrol. Mine is the pot destroyer. I think the weed whacker is his favorite tool. Weeds, pots it doesn't matter. One of our friends say that he must be giving classes on how to whack other things that shouldn't be whacked. 😂😂😂
When the music started, I clicked the like button and subscribed. I had not noticed that I had not done so yet, but besides being informative about gardening, but you're also an entertainer, a comedian even.
Dang, that is a lovely hori hori knife you were gifted. I believe my umm children want to buy that off my wish list for Mother’s Day. What a blessing those children are... All for the kiddie pool montage and trying this idea in the future. But what about.. oops you are answering my question right now. Gtg! putting mosquito dunks on my list too.
I like to use this eco-friendly way to obliterate the white cabbage moth pest, I get a strong hose nozzle and use as much water pressure as available and as they fly by I spray water on them and their wings until they fall to the ground and then if needed step on them.
Cool, buuuut.... you shouldn't put the paver-bricks under the plants because of the mosquito problem the residual water will cause. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water... and do you really want stagnant water, anyway. Here's the solution: just put the pots directly on the pool floor and then poke several holes in the side of the pool about 2 inches above the floor level to let water run out if it gets too high. By doing it this way you'll only need to water when the pool floor is completely dry... or just a little damp. And when it rains the holes in the side will keep the pool from overfilling. A hot nail or a soldering iron makes fast holes in a plastic pool. If you live in a sub-tropical area that gets torrential downpours then you might want to make your holes a little bigger and numerous. Love your channel.
I love the song in the background. Is that you. When I was younger I used to go listen to my husband practice in the band and they were always making up little songs like that. I thought it was really interesting I took me back to when I was a young kid I got married at 16
I grow sweet million tomatoes in a kiddie pool. Use the blue Walmart bags. When transplanting the tomatoes (I grow from seeds), dig a small hole, add a handful of epsom salts, four Tums (for calcium) and a handful of Tomato Magic fertilizer. Plant the stems deep. Before setting the bags in the kiddie pool, drill a hole on either side about three inches from the bottom for drainage. You will need something for them to trellis on. I use a tall shephard hook on either side with two or more one by two inch, 10 ft. boards across the top of the pool. Then I wrap the soft, green wrap from Home Depot to the boards and wrap around the stems and keep wrapping as they grow. Add fertilizer regularly, fish emulsion, Tomato Magic, organic fertilizer, whatever you like. Keep water in the pool until it drains out the holes you drilled. This works like a charm. If you bought good seeds, you will get delicious tomatoes all summer long.
On Robbie and Gary’s Gardening Easy channel Gary grows in kiddie pools he put the pots on bricks too and he puts mosquito eating fish in there also the dragonflies lay their larvae in there so he has lots of dragonflies. Thought you might want to check out their TH-cam channel
I would put a few minnows in the standing water. We put few minnows in green 5 gallon buckets about 1/2 full of water at the edge of our property here in Florida. It helps quite a bit.
I use the black rectangular concrete mixing trays from Home Depot for the same use. My plants do well until I have a chance to plant them, I don't elevate the pots, and I've never had a problem - the plants do well even for weeks at a time.
If you put strings or laces from the bottom of the kitty pool in to the bucket.. then even if the water goes low, the buckets will suck everything through the string.
If you made a floating platform, your plants should always get water unless the pool is too low. Also, Mosquitoes are going to be a problem with any standing water. Some people place the pots in the pool and fill the pool 1/2 way with coarse gravel. There is a fish called a mosquito fish. It devours that larvae. Some use a plain old goldfish but watch the water level and temperature.
If you don't have room on a patio for a kiddy pool those big pots are a great size for using crawfish serving platters for a little watering tray,they hold more water
Several drops of dishwashing liquid in the water also keeps mosquito larva from hatching. It breaks the surface tension of the water and they can’t get air. Works great.
This reminds me of Larry Hall's original gardening video's. He was big on using the kiddie pools as a watering reservoir but he used fabric grow bags till he switched to his gutter self-watering system. RIP Larry from Brainard, MN! What he did to regulate the amount of water in the pool was to drill a hole or two in the sides of the pool about 1 to 2 inches up from the bottom - can't remember the exact measurement - but as the pool fills it just spills out the holes in the side so the pots are never swimming in too much water. He also said to put a mosquito float in the water as well to control the larvae. They said it didn't harm the plants any??? Anyway, I think it will work great, can't wait to see the updates.
I just love your gardening songs! I hope folks are listening to the lyrics! You made me laugh out loud at 3 a.m. I have an adult daughter who adlibs songs while speaking to my infant grandson. How do people do that?? 😂👍
A great idea if you need to get away for a few days, too, cool, thank you! My herbs are in smaller pots and ti is hard to keep them watered, I might do that for them, too...glad to see you, I have been missing : ) but catching later, God bless you
Feeder guppies, comets and rosies work well to remove mosquito larvae in standing water. In larger tanks comets or koi work well. We make a water garden each year with plants above and fish below. Works well except for raccoon raids.
You could also scavenge five gallon buckets for planters. The ones I used were from a dumpster near a drywall contractor, but many restaurant get edible materials in them if you're wary of the chemicals in the drywall compound. It's definitely cheating to buy them from Home Depot or Walmart.
This morning I've been watching self watering beds I've been having problems keeping my raised garden beds watered last year I watched black gumbo video on building a David the good swamp water barrel so I looked up yours and since I had a major problem with weed especially out behind my fence and no matter how fast I pulled them they grew back I also had salvaged a rain barrel the neighbor threw out found out it had frozen and split the bottom just a 3 inch long crack couldn't even see it but the barrel after the rain was dry so I patched it and as you said put those weeds to good use and my harvest was about triple now I'm going to fix my raised beds I made them with some 2x4 foot containers someone threw out but I drilled some holes in the bottom to keep them drained so after watching all the videos on self watering beds when the ground thaws I'm going to take out the soil patch the holes and run a pipe up to fill them with water when I first made them I got cheap to cut down on the soil I needed I filled the bottom with tree trimmings and grass and old invoices I thought I was just being cheap but found out that it was hugle culture my original garden was 14 by 5 but my sister and I had a hard time reaching the center of the the bed so I empted it out put it in a sunny spot most of the the trimmings were gone all the grass and paper was gone so I remade it 2x28 ft long and raised the legs up so that it's now 32 inches to the top of the bed we could easily reach the center of the bed from both sides of the bed and with your swamp water grew a great crop I'm curious as to how much of the old trimmings are left and if there are any of the grass clippings and paper shred is left will add more trimmings paper shred and grass clippings and since I have my swamp water barrel I'll take out the leftover weeds and grass clippings from last year and put them in as well I'll
Signing closing papers on almost 4 acres in Georgia in a few weeks -- so excited! It's on a (quiet) highway with a visible neighbor on one side, and I want to plant something that grows reasonably tall for privacy, but that bears fruit or is otherwise edible. Anyone have any suggestions? Looks like I'm on the edge of 8a/8b. I'm just starting to research and I figured hey, if anyone has ideas, it would help a lot! PS: Thank you for all you do for us, Mr. The Good!!
@@melissab8500 Thanks! I'd definitely like a peach tree (or two), but I'm thinking of natural "fencing" that also produces something edible as well. Blueberries sound promising, but I also want to "diversify my stock" as it were! ^_^ Hmmm, maybe some fruit trees with their higher canopies and other low growing fruits to cover the lower area behind them.
@@kristihicks3170 Not sure I could push pineapple to zone 8 (might be worth a try though, since they are delish!), but there do seem to be some varieties of guava that could make it. Adding to the list, thank you! (EDIT -- OH, I see "pineapple guava" is a thing. No comma. My eyes are still waking up haha!)
I grow my garden in pots too, and they can dry out, so must water morning and night. Don't want mosquitos so might not use kiddie pools, but maybe a garden bag over the pot to help keep water from evaporating from the soil might help. I noticed earthworms moving from ground into the holes at bottom of the pots is nice too. Pools would be great if having to be away from home for several days. Thanks for the tip!
Here in the PNW I do the kiddie pool thing too but I pour lava rock (or river rock when I have it) around the pots and fill the pool to rock level. This eliminates the open air mosquito lake and also gives the bees a place to hydrate. It's more attractive this way too, put a few succulents on top for some pop. Don't forget to make an overflow spout or hole just above rocks to reduce standing water on rainy days.
You must have well-behaved mosquitoes, then!. At least around me, if there's enough water for a bee to drink, there's enough for a mosquito to reproduce -as long as it doesn't evaporate dry within a couple of days. Luckily mosquito dunks, which do affect some other species like fungus gnats, are safe for bees. I do like the succulent idea though - I'll bet that looks great!
@@elisabetk2595 You're absolutely correct Elizabeth, this doesn't totally eliminate mosquitos just the ugly-looking standing water lake. But I have the rocks piled a few inches above stagnant water level and don't see those skeeters hanging around these planters as much. I do the old hen-and-chicks on top and let them multiply on their own, looks great.
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Got the book, and a couple more, with they had your music in them. Lol peace
Do you have an organic remedy for "squash bugs"? About the time my cucumber and squash start going really well in come those little monsters and destroy my crop.
@@soniabrannan412 thanks!
😄 "all you need have a kid with a butterfly net" lol
Wondering about the update 1 year later thankyou
The oil from a little bit of coffee grinds in the water will keep mosquito larve at bay. That's a trick we use in Louisiana.
So….just sprinkle regular coffee grounds into the water?
@charmpierce2161 yes, I throw used grinds in standing water.
@@annh3599 thank you for this information because I was saving my coffee grinds to put in the soil but didn’t know that it will help with mosquitoes. I collect rainwater so this is great!!!. Thanks so much for sharing.🪴🪴🪴happy gardening y’all.
Last year was my 1st yr growing hydroponics; and I was aghast when I saw larvae in the water; mosquitoes attached their eggs to the plants and swam in the water;
I couldn’t find another person who had this problem, I thought I was the only one…….. mosquitoes were really bad last year, and it’s turned me off to hydroponics; I’m really afraid of seeing that larvae again; so coffee grinds mixes with masterblend and kills larvae but does not effect the ingredients ?!
I wanna try pools this year. Have done hydroponics and containers kracky method etc. this mosquito hack gonna be big help!!
Put holes in the kiddie pool at the side half way up or to whatever the level of water u want. When u put soil in ur pots put old leaves and bits of twigs half way up then add the soil. Put the pots aside after u harvest and leave as it is over the winter and when planting time comes dump the soil in the wheel barrel and mix. The leaves and twigs will be mulch to help u reuse the soil .
Great ideas
Great idea
I was thinking holes on the side would be easier. That color in a neighborhood would look crash. I saw one container gardener use natural burlap, by the yard and covered up his various containers . That would fir into a neighborhood land scape.
I thought th I s would be clever to stack the bricks. Taller in the middle and lower on the sides. Plants would get more sun that way.
On a small scale it would be great for strawberries.
Thanks for posting this. A springboard of creative ideas to container gardening!
Years ago, I did something similar with plastic cement mixing bins minus the soil in pots. I use them as my pineapple nursery which I keep in half shade under the eaves of an out building where rain and condensation keep the bins wet most of the year. I drilled holes about 4 inches up only the sides of the bins. I always have pineapple starts to plant every year. I added mosquito fish, gameso, and they live and poop in the water. Cheap.
I put my tomato plants close together last year and they 'held hands' like a Family. 😄 And my seedlings that I let grow together grew bigger and stronger faster than the ones that were solo. I think they like company too. 🤷🏻♀️
I'm going to give that a try! Why not, thanks for the idea 💡 greetings from Augusta Georgia ❤️🇺🇸💫
@@mariap.thisislife8735 Happy Gardening! 🌱😊🌱
Can I ask what size containers did you use and what type of tomato plant? I'm in Missouri, hot and humid in summer and I honestly don't know what tomato I can grow in the sand bags that I bought. Thanks
@@JDB2308👋🏼 I'm an apartment gardener, and only get three hours of evening sun on a quarter of my balcony at the height of summer, so I always try not to plant things the same way in case one way doesn't work. I think I used 4 pots, both plastic and Terra cotta, 8 & 10 inch. They were lined up in a row against the railing. The tallest one held on to the two closest, then they held on to the others. I used cherry tomato seeds from the kitchen. Now I'm wondering if they should be planted in bunches, like how the seeds are all together. I don't have the space to try though.
And I had two plants in each pot.
Thats hilarious. Watching your kid in the background carrying out "pest control" make me crack up 🤣🤣🤣😁
Hahaha there is an entire segment of society that trips to the dollar store for the exciting butterfly net! To give to the kids for the darn cabbage moth
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😂😂 so cute
Can’t beat free pest control ! 😆😆
Had to show your song to my mom, first time she’s laughed that hard in a while. ❤️❤️❤️THANK YOU❤️❤️❤️
This is the first time I've seen your show and now I am a subscriber. When you sing the song about the kitty pool I was completely sucked in to your void and now I must binge watch. Also the natural pest control idea is classic! Love this
Oh my goodness this is hands down the most entertaining, hilarious gardening video I have ever watched. I literally laughed out loud at least 8 times. I may have guffawed a few times and will admit to snorting at least once. But to all those people with the bright idea of adding little fishies to the kiddie pool- BAD IDEA! The first 100 degree day is going to turn your little aquaponic pets into mosquito sized pool rafts. ASK ME HOW I KNOW. Its been 7 years and my kids still haven't let me live it down. Its a pretty barbaric way of brewing home made fish emulsion...and IMO you are better off spending the $ on those mosquito cakes or whatever those things are that you recommended. IDK...I never tried it again and all my kiddie pools are full of potting soil now. Which the squirrels find delightful.
Me too
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I don't have any issues with mosquitoes, I use 8, 5gallon grow bags per kpool and filled in river rock pebbles in between, punch a drain hole 3" on pool..been a couple seasons now and love em. Hubby ran overhead drip irrigation, 1 per pool so now I don't even have to water and I have a veggie garden oasis, my plants are huge and beautiful. I would've rather had beds but this was cheap alternative..works 👍
David the Good is HILARIOUS! I burst out laughing at the kiddie pool song and then again in the end with the "Fruit salad spoon" lyrics! Hahahahahaha! I once looked for hours for a "David the Good" video where he ties his shoes in the beginning because I felt like laughing.
Did this years ago for even cheaper and you don't need "rescue pavers." Instead of using plastic pots, I used the blue Wal Mart reusable PET shopping bags. They work well as grow bags (and cheap!). Roots air prune themselves. Corn does especially well this way. Placed mosquito dunks for ponds in the pool to thwart mosquitos.
Your songs take me down strange roads...
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I like how your kid looks like a sentry on patrol w that butterfly net.
This method is how I lazily start my plants from seed. Instead of watering several times per day, I check the tub level every few days or a week.
Hi my name is Esther and I live in California. This is the first video I have watched of yours and I want to tell you I love your music! I usually complain about people's music but yours is about the plant and I really really enjoyed it thank you thank you thank you
Thank you - welcome.
This is the best gardening video I've ever seen! I love your sense of humor.
Thank you
LOVE THE 🎵 SONG
This is the only time it’s ok to pee in the pool.
I have used a similar system for my strawberries as the water barrier stops slugs and bugs.
For mosquitos try putting a few feeder fish like goldfish in the little pool. If they survive,-they usually do, they eat the larvae and thrive themselves. Poorman's aquaculture...
Great idea, thanks, got tanks full
We just bought 3 kiddie pools to water our 1 gallon pots with sawtooth oak trees. Close to the bottom we put pvc connectors with screw on caps. When we want to give them a good drink of water we will just screw on the cap or unscrew the cap to drain after a heavy rain. Heat indexes over 100 makes everything super thirsty.
“I’m not telling you to plant all the tomatoes together… I’m just casually doing it on TH-cam.” 😂
For mosquitoes in your kiddie pool garden, I read where people put coffee in the water to prevent the mosquitoes from laying eggs. I don't know if this works, but I did read this!
The rotten wood is a main staple in my mixes. I have a bunch in my yard from years of logs and unused firewood breaking down, along with a stump here and there. It adds a ton of nutrients, as well as lightening the soil mixture. I also add a little composted grass. It's hügelkultur fast-forwarded. The difference is that most people never turn their HK beds to get the good stuff at the bottom; they forget all about it.
I see old kiddy pools on the side of the road all the time. I never thought to do this! Next one I see is coming home though, for the containers on the back patio. Thanks for the idea!
I have thought of using kiddie pools, but never tried it - just always used individual bowls and such. I bet one could buy lots of kiddie pools dirt cheap at the end on the summer at Walmart or Family Dollar.
@@jenningsrountree5361 I bought 8 of them this spring, and I'm using them for watermelons, squash, peanuts and some spuds my sister gave me last month.
I drilled a 1/2" hole 2" up at every rib (16), so it leaves some pooling at the bottom. They are working great, not only as giant watering saucers, but also as containers themselves!
I used some kiddie pools last year. Carrots in fabric pots did really well. Also, a little bonus, I put pulled weeds, grass clipping and some unfinished compost in the bottom so it was essentially making compost tea every time I put water in the pool.
Definitely will try this
Going to let my husband see this, he thinks I'm a crack pot! 😂 I also wash out really well the heavy made dog food bags when empty to use for planting or a mulch bag. Thank you for your tips! Greetings from Augusta Georgia ❤️🇺🇸💫
Dog food bags! Great idea.
@@noncompliant9258 Bags of soil are also great for this
@@TheRealHonestInquiry We are considering this as well ready made home for the plants! Happy gardening 🌸🥕 🍅 🍏 🥬🌽
@@TheRealHonestInquiry so I can just cut the top of the soil bag, lean it against a fence and plant stuff in it?!
@@cadavher Keep it flat,slice an opening for a plant, make sure you poke holes in the bottom and sides for drainage.. You can probably still have the bags flush against a fence if you want as your probably going to need to stake and tie your growing plants as they grow and fill out. Happy gardening 🥬🌽🥕 🍅🥬
lolz. I freakin love your songs. My children hear you playing and they run into the room excitedly yelling "moms watching David the Good!!" family friendly
Thank you. I love to hear it. Tell your kids David says they are awesome.
*I TOTALLY did the kiddie pool thing and elevated my plants as well keep my plants alive when I went out of town last year. Great minds think alike. I have the same Hori Hori as well*
The songs man. “Compost your enemies” still makes me laugh.
I sing that one a lot. And YOYOYO you gotta prune your plants!!
Is that song on this channel? I’d like to hear that one
Which video has "Compost Your Enemies" ? I gotta check that out.
I used neem oil or essential oils in my outdoor hydroponics last year. That eradicated the skeeters. Love your song btw! Thanks for the content!
That was a better montage than any rocky movie. Much better music as well
So informative AND entertaining. Best gardening song I’ve ever heard hands down.
I want to hear compost your enemies. Love this.
Basil and marigolds would appreciate that tomato plant shade, and draw pollinators. You could also throw a goldfish in there to eat the mosquitos and add nutrients to the roots.
LOVE IT!
Not sure this would be a good environment for a goldfish. The water in the kiddie pool will get too hot and develop algae.
@@sharontahir9694 okay an algae eater or plecostomus. The put them in horse troughs
I like the goldfish idea very smart
@@sharontahir9694 goldfish food is algae.
You could try gold fish in the kiddy pool in keeping mosquitos at bay and fertilize the plants naturally.
Will turtles work ?
Minnows from a local pond would be far cheaper
Gators.
Or as my son said when he was little.”haldators”
Kiddie pool aquaponics, i sense a book.
I have standing water in my back yard, after heavy rains. I had a drain there; but, over the years, it seems to have become filled. I buy a large bottle of cheap vegetable oil and keep it available; I sprinkle it and coat the top of the large puddles. It might not be a perfect process; but. It does reduce the hordes of mosquitoes in my hot Texas yard.
I bet a few drops of neem oil into the veg oil would reduce them even further! That's so smart.
Mosquitoes was definitely my question... I love this song too
Quote of the day... "It feels similar enough to a machete that I feel good about it."
I feel the same way about my Hori Hori. "This is wicked sharp! I'm gonna cut myself here soon, I just know it"
This method works great in our zone 9b. I drill a hole a few inches up the side for drainage. I also compost around the edges with leaves or chop n drop for extra fertility or moisture retention. The blue pools are ugly but ive draped the edges with burlap at times. Thanks for teaching us another way DTG! 🕊 P. S. LOVE the butterfly netting solution !
Fountain pump for aeration + mosquito larvae blender ??? I use the little ones when I have standing water and don't want bacteria growth. Just lay it on its side and it will stir the water like a Jacuzzi jet.
Larry Hall did "kiddie pool gardening" for years before he passed away. It works great if you live in an area that has long dry spells. Here in East Texas it's like a box of chocolates - "ya never know what yer gonna get". We can have weeks and weeks of rain followed by weeks and weeks of drought. I grow everything in containers or raised beds. My first garden I started (where we live now) was 5 gallon buckets in a kiddie pool that my kids outgrew.
Keep up the awesome content. I love your sense of humor.
I'm trying something similar, I have hard clay soil so I dug 2-3 foot pits and put logs in the bottom and did a lasagna bed on top so hopefully the logs underneath will soak up water and act as a reservoir
David the cheaper way is to punch a few holes in the pool near the top to allow an overflow.
About 15 years ago, there were some people in south Georgia growing weed in the woods using the same kiddie pool method. It worked well for them until they got caught.
LOL
I must try this got my seeds sprouting legal in Canada 🇨🇦 thanks for the idea 💡
Did they not think to keep moving it? Geez.
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I use the kiddy pools as well. I also take a flower pot and put drainage holes 1 inch up the side, 4 all around it and plant in them. The pots hild an inch of water and won't flood the plants with the drainage holes. Barely have to water, maybe once a week or 10 days. Happy growing 💜
I do similar idea but even more mix stretching using the $6 18gal totes at Walmart. Using a 1/4” drill I put two holes a couple inches up at one end and then two at the opposite end. Keeps a few inches of water at all times in the bottom and drains when it rains or gets over watered. Woodchips inside up to holes then greens then brown and green lasagna stack. Then a few inches of potting mix on top of lasagna and plant into that. Wicking and composting at same time.
Your the only channel who finally spoke on something I couldn’t find anyone else talking about: mosquito larvae; I made a vertical bucket hydro Kranky system and was appalled when I saw larvae swimming around;
….but they never made it into my horizontal container bucket; net cups and clay pebbles should deter them because I used pool noodles and the plants became too heavy and dropped down and also, I drilled a small hole for drainage for rain; one of these ways was how they got in; it was a HUGE hassle in cleaning all the buckets……
There are many types of kiddo pools. I got a rubber material that I can condition from time to time. It breaks down super easy and stores even easier. I’ve used it for watermelon plants as a reservoir. Cloth planter, 50 gallon in a 4x4 round kid pool. I had to cover the gap between the planter and the pool though. We get a lot of bugs where I am. June bugs... they just dive right into water like they were fish!
Pools have many great uses! Find yours and save on water!
My tomatoes love jalapeño. Tomato plant jalapeño then tomato so on and so forth. Plant mosquito plants on the out side of the pool. I did that around my pond. Planted citronella an geraniums that was citronella scent. It worked
Nice balance of education and humor.
Thank you DTG! Love the vibe and your channel!
I did something similar but I used metal plant stands with two inch tall legs and put fish in water to keep mosquitoes out
I'm happy to see that you finally jumped on the hori hori train!
All of my garden is in containers. I put each container into a disposable roasting pan. That is kept full of water. Makes a barrier to bugs and keeps them watered.
Great idea.
I picked up a little float ball valve and attached it to the side of a watering trough and then fed that with several rain barrels. You could do that with the pool, for those dry times you either feed it from barrels or a faucet (although leaving a faucet on when gone seems like a risk to me).
Here is a better way to control the moisture with your system. Double the amount of pots. Get some jute rope.
Line the pool with pots like you have done in the video. Cut lengths of rope 2x the height of the pots you use.
Embed 2 or 3 lengths of rope in each pot then fill pot with pea gravel as you even space the lengths of rope in each pot.
Add another level of pots ontop of the bottom ones. Feed the rope through the holes in the bottom of the top pots then fill top pots with potting soil around the rope evenly.
You now have a proper wicking bed
I have done this for years on top of tables. Works great. Celery esp loves it.
I did expand into combining 2 theories. I have a bottom pot of weeds and leaves and a little soil.
It wicks the water into the top pot.
Creates it's own compost. I use that compost the following year for my winter sowing.
Ok, I need more info. A pool, a pot with weeds and leaves and soil, in that a pot with soil and plant (food source) of choice and no pavers? Have I got that right? That sounds like a win win there!!
Yes Teressa the kiddy pool has an inch or two of water. I drill a drainage hole. If I need to hold more water I just plug it. It also catches the rain. I keep a bucket under the hole and catch the xtra rain water.
My bottom pot has weeds and leaves topped with a little dirt. I stack another pot on top of it. The roots of that plant can go through the holes and feed on the compost.
The water wicks up into the pots.
@@melodyjogibson6791 ingenious!!!
Love this idea!! Thank you
Wow! Thanks! I'm excited to try this. I might try small scale at first. If I have the idea correctly would this work: a plastic tub from the dollar store as the bottom water holder and then two 5 gallon buckets with holes in the bottoms stacked into each other sitting in the water tub. The bottom bucket that sits directly in the tub contains the leaves, sticks, dirt and such and then the top bucket would hold the dirt and plants right? And the water should wick up through the soil in the bottom bucket into the soil of the top bucket and the roots could access the water and soil/nutrients in both buckets?
I started putting our pots in a kiddie pool in the shade when we left in the summer. It helps a lot.
I'd buy your music. I'd listen while working the homestead.
I'd come back to watch this just for the song..... it was a brilliant, brilliant---and moving, song.
I use a similar set up although I use those foldable pet pools you can buy on amazon for easier storage.
This is by far the best gardening video I have watched. Your music was excellent, that made me smile!!
Thank you, Susan!
@@davidthegood - I got a good chuckle from your song, too. 😊 Great self-watering system.
'ohh that so wrong'....😄
Love the song.
I buy a pot without holes in the bottom and then dill holes 2or 3" up on the side for draining. It is like a self-watering container.
This is an excellent idea.. I like the paver idea.. I've stuck plants in a kiddie pool before.. but then had the same problem you mentioned.. an afternoon downpour in central Florida and the pool fills up, pots start floating and tipping over, and things drown.. a day or two later I wander by, and my plants are now a slimy mess. Also.. my husband is one of those mosquito patrol people who will dump out a bucket of water, even if I have mulberry cuttings stuck in there trying to see if they root while I figure out where to stick them.. (I have hoarder tendencies.. and I hate throwing away anything that might grow).. so if there are bricks in the pool, maybe that will deter him from dumping it.. lol.. Nice song too..
I had to laugh about your husband being on mosquito patrol. Mine is the pot destroyer. I think the weed whacker is his favorite tool. Weeds, pots it doesn't matter. One of our friends say that he must be giving classes on how to whack other things that shouldn't be whacked. 😂😂😂
When the music started, I clicked the like button and subscribed. I had not noticed that I had not done so yet, but besides being informative about gardening, but you're also an entertainer, a comedian even.
Thank you
This is the first video of yours I saw
Your so weird and snarky
I love it!!
Thank you, Robin. Welcome.
This is the first time I have run across one of your videos and the song itself was worth it.
Dang, that is a lovely hori hori knife you were gifted. I believe my umm children want to buy that off my wish list for Mother’s Day. What a blessing those children are... All for the kiddie pool montage and trying this idea in the future. But what about.. oops you are answering my question right now. Gtg! putting mosquito dunks on my list too.
I like to use this eco-friendly way to obliterate the white cabbage moth pest, I get a strong hose nozzle
and use as much water pressure as available and as they fly by I spray water on them and their wings until they fall to the ground and then if needed step on them.
That cat stevens u had playing in the background was classic
Cool, buuuut.... you shouldn't put the paver-bricks under the plants because of the mosquito problem the residual water will cause. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water... and do you really want stagnant water, anyway. Here's the solution: just put the pots directly on the pool floor and then poke several holes in the side of the pool about 2 inches above the floor level to let water run out if it gets too high. By doing it this way you'll only need to water when the pool floor is completely dry... or just a little damp. And when it rains the holes in the side will keep the pool from overfilling. A hot nail or a soldering iron makes fast holes in a plastic pool. If you live in a sub-tropical area that gets torrential downpours then you might want to make your holes a little bigger and numerous. Love your channel.
Impressive epic AND spontaneous kiddie pool tomato song! Thanks, Sir David, love your videos. :)
I love the song in the background. Is that you. When I was younger I used to go listen to my husband practice in the band and they were always making up little songs like that. I thought it was really interesting I took me back to when I was a young kid I got married at 16
I grow sweet million tomatoes in a kiddie pool. Use the blue Walmart bags. When transplanting the tomatoes (I grow from seeds), dig a small hole, add a handful of epsom salts, four Tums (for calcium) and a handful of Tomato Magic fertilizer. Plant the stems deep. Before setting the bags in the kiddie pool, drill a hole on either side about three inches from the bottom for drainage. You will need something for them to trellis on. I use a tall shephard hook on either side with two or more one by two inch, 10 ft. boards across the top of the pool. Then I wrap the soft, green wrap from Home Depot to the boards and wrap around the stems and keep wrapping as they grow. Add fertilizer regularly, fish emulsion, Tomato Magic, organic fertilizer, whatever you like. Keep water in the pool until it drains out the holes you drilled. This works like a charm. If you bought good seeds, you will get delicious tomatoes all summer long.
On Robbie and Gary’s Gardening Easy channel Gary grows in kiddie pools he put the pots on bricks too and he puts mosquito eating fish in there also the dragonflies lay their larvae in there so he has lots of dragonflies. Thought you might want to check out their TH-cam channel
Reminds me of the water box things that they use in Europe.
Love the songs👍🏼
I would put a few minnows in the standing water. We put few minnows in green 5 gallon buckets about 1/2 full of water at the edge of our property here in Florida. It helps quite a bit.
That sounds like a great idea. Thanx.
Great SONG! Thank you so much for the laughs along with great gardening tips! You are very creative and talented!
I use the black rectangular concrete mixing trays from Home Depot for the same use. My plants do well until I have a chance to plant them, I don't elevate the pots, and I've never had a problem - the plants do well even for weeks at a time.
The song, that is what did it for me, you're hilarious!
If you put strings or laces from the bottom of the kitty pool in to the bucket.. then even if the water goes low, the buckets will suck everything through the string.
If you made a floating platform, your plants should always get water unless the pool is too low.
Also, Mosquitoes are going to be a problem with any standing water.
Some people place the pots in the pool and fill the pool 1/2 way with coarse gravel.
There is a fish called a mosquito fish.
It devours that larvae.
Some use a plain old goldfish but watch the water level and temperature.
If you don't have room on a patio for a kiddy pool those big pots are a great size for using crawfish serving platters for a little watering tray,they hold more water
You might want to add some feeder fish or BT to the pool for mosquito control.
That's what a mosquito dunk is. BT.
Free mosquito fish our local mosquito abatement department
@@heatherk8931 to take care of your fish , how often you have to change water?
The music and lyrics are worth the watch....ballad of kiddy pool
You just know when the screen turns burnt sienna, its about to get good.
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Several drops of dishwashing liquid in the water also keeps mosquito larva from hatching. It breaks the surface tension of the water and they can’t get air. Works great.
This reminds me of Larry Hall's original gardening video's. He was big on using the kiddie pools as a watering reservoir but he used fabric grow bags till he switched to his gutter self-watering system. RIP Larry from Brainard, MN! What he did to regulate the amount of water in the pool was to drill a hole or two in the sides of the pool about 1 to 2 inches up from the bottom - can't remember the exact measurement - but as the pool fills it just spills out the holes in the side so the pots are never swimming in too much water. He also said to put a mosquito float in the water as well to control the larvae. They said it didn't harm the plants any??? Anyway, I think it will work great, can't wait to see the updates.
The mosqeeto floats are a bacteria that when hydrated grow and affect the larvae. So it's not a chemical treatment.
Larry died? I Learned my first diy gardening with the Wal-Mart bags from him
@@nichelle-marquese743 Yes, sadly he passed a few years ago. I first learned about using the grow bags on his channel too :)
I just love your gardening songs! I hope folks are listening to the lyrics! You made me laugh out loud at 3 a.m.
I have an adult daughter who adlibs songs while speaking to my infant grandson. How do people do that?? 😂👍
Video so refreshing and laid back... The concept works extremely well
You can also add some dish soap or shampoo. That breaks up the water surface and drowns the mosquito eggs and their larvae.
A great idea if you need to get away for a few days, too, cool, thank you! My herbs are in smaller pots and ti is hard to keep them watered, I might do that for them, too...glad to see you, I have been missing : ) but catching later, God bless you
Feeder guppies, comets and rosies work well to remove mosquito larvae in standing water. In larger tanks comets or koi work well. We make a water garden each year with plants above and fish below. Works well except for raccoon raids.
When will your album be released????
You should make follow up videos on some of these techniques. I'd love to see how long these maters kept in the pool and how well they did.
You could also scavenge five gallon buckets for planters. The ones I used were from a dumpster near a drywall contractor, but many restaurant get edible materials in them if you're wary of the chemicals in the drywall compound. It's definitely cheating to buy them from Home Depot or Walmart.
This morning I've been watching self watering beds I've been having problems keeping my raised garden beds watered last year I watched black gumbo video on building a David the good swamp water barrel so I looked up yours and since I had a major problem with weed especially out behind my fence and no matter how fast I pulled them they grew back I also had salvaged a rain barrel the neighbor threw out found out it had frozen and split the bottom just a 3 inch long crack couldn't even see it but the barrel after the rain was dry so I patched it and as you said put those weeds to good use and my harvest was about triple now I'm going to fix my raised beds I made them with some 2x4 foot containers someone threw out but I drilled some holes in the bottom to keep them drained so after watching all the videos on self watering beds when the ground thaws I'm going to take out the soil patch the holes and run a pipe up to fill them with water when I first made them I got cheap to cut down on the soil I needed I filled the bottom with tree trimmings and grass and old invoices I thought I was just being cheap but found out that it was hugle culture my original garden was 14 by 5 but my sister and I had a hard time reaching the center of the the bed so I empted it out put it in a sunny spot most of the the trimmings were gone all the grass and paper was gone so I remade it 2x28 ft long and raised the legs up so that it's now 32 inches to the top of the bed we could easily reach the center of the bed from both sides of the bed and with your swamp water grew a great crop I'm curious as to how much of the old trimmings are left and if there are any of the grass clippings and paper shred is left will add more trimmings paper shred and grass clippings and since I have my swamp water barrel I'll take out the leftover weeds and grass clippings from last year and put them in as well I'll
Signing closing papers on almost 4 acres in Georgia in a few weeks -- so excited! It's on a (quiet) highway with a visible neighbor on one side, and I want to plant something that grows reasonably tall for privacy, but that bears fruit or is otherwise edible. Anyone have any suggestions? Looks like I'm on the edge of 8a/8b. I'm just starting to research and I figured hey, if anyone has ideas, it would help a lot!
PS: Thank you for all you do for us, Mr. The Good!!
Peaches, blueberries... I think they do well up there
Nothing better than mulberries and they grow fast.
@@melissab8500 Thanks! I'd definitely like a peach tree (or two), but I'm thinking of natural "fencing" that also produces something edible as well. Blueberries sound promising, but I also want to "diversify my stock" as it were! ^_^ Hmmm, maybe some fruit trees with their higher canopies and other low growing fruits to cover the lower area behind them.
If you want evergreen you could plant pineapple guava.
@@kristihicks3170 Not sure I could push pineapple to zone 8 (might be worth a try though, since they are delish!), but there do seem to be some varieties of guava that could make it. Adding to the list, thank you! (EDIT -- OH, I see "pineapple guava" is a thing. No comma. My eyes are still waking up haha!)
I grow my garden in pots too, and they can dry out, so must water morning and night. Don't want mosquitos so might not use kiddie pools, but maybe a garden bag over the pot to help keep water from evaporating from the soil might help. I noticed earthworms moving from ground into the holes at bottom of the pots is nice too. Pools would be great if having to be away from home for several days. Thanks for the tip!
lol that soundtrack is awesome at 6m
Here in the PNW I do the kiddie pool thing too but I pour lava rock (or river rock when I have it) around the pots and fill the pool to rock level. This eliminates the open air mosquito lake and also gives the bees a place to hydrate. It's more attractive this way too, put a few succulents on top for some pop. Don't forget to make an overflow spout or hole just above rocks to reduce standing water on rainy days.
You must have well-behaved mosquitoes, then!. At least around me, if there's enough water for a bee to drink, there's enough for a mosquito to reproduce -as long as it doesn't evaporate dry within a couple of days. Luckily mosquito dunks, which do affect some other species like fungus gnats, are safe for bees.
I do like the succulent idea though - I'll bet that looks great!
@@elisabetk2595 You're absolutely correct Elizabeth, this doesn't totally eliminate mosquitos just the ugly-looking standing water lake. But I have the rocks piled a few inches above stagnant water level and don't see those skeeters hanging around these planters as much. I do the old hen-and-chicks on top and let them multiply on their own, looks great.
Thank you from the daughter of the Queen of Black Thumbs.
That Meaningless Song was rockin'! 🎸🤘🎸🤘🎸