Tool Caddy/Carrier Five-gallon buckets make excellent tool caddies. Upside-down planters need to be hung and the handles on plastic buckets make them perfect for this. For example, you can make an upside-down planter with holes in the sides of the bucket to grow a whole crop of strawberries or herbs in one bucket, planting-bag style. The best part about this is that you can design your own planter to suit exactly the crop you are growing, and the space you have for hanging. Related Reading A Comprehensive Guide To Potting Up Garden Plants There are many examples online and on YouTube for 5-gallon bucket planting frames. These can be simple structures, raised (which is nice if bending is no longer your friend), tiered, or on the ground. Many things can be grown in five-gallon buckets, including strawberries (make a whole grow tower out of a 5-gallon pail!), potatoes, cucumbers, squash, lettuce, tomatoes, herbs, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and roots crops like carrots and beets.įor larger and taller plants, it’s smart to set buckets into a frame or anchor them so that they cannot tip or blow over. They are large enough to grow some of the biggest garden plants and vegetables. Container Planters The majority of vegetable garden plants can be grown in 5-gallon buckets.įive-gallon pails hold a lot of soil.
#Five gallon buckets how to#
There are so many uses for these cheap (often free) and reusable resources. Five-gallon buckets are very handy things for a gardener to have.
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