Thanks, Ginger!

Linda, be sure to throw some radish seed in with the lettuce and such. They'll see progress in 20 days or so. As ya'll thin/pull the radishes it'll give them an impetus to hang in there and hold on for the other crops to come on.

Sounds like a fun project to me!

Shoe

Thanks a bunch, Ubie! I've never grown radished, but I hear they're real easy and come up in no time.

Wonderful tip!!!

Linda,

I love the idea of a few of something easy to germinate, to let them know they are doing well so far ... or not! And it makes the point that every plant grows differently.

I have lots of
Daikon Minowase Radish (long white roots when mature).
and some mild little
RADISH "French Breakfast" (Raphanus sativus).
Want any?


Another possibility would be some Bok Choy (Pak Choi), since you can eat the tiny leaves raw in salad (for example, sow very thick and eat the thinnings). Then let just a few grow big and unusual-looking, since maybe only 1-3 adults would fill a bucket..

I like crunching the sweet medium-young stems like celery! You could let them harvest a few each week as they crowded each other.

Since you can eat them at any stage, you don't have to wait the entire 35-45 days. I have tons of Bok Choy seed, several varieties.

Rick to the rescue!! Shoot yes we want those seeds!

Please send the radishes and the Bok Choy. I'll send you my addy in a tree mail.

"THANK YOU" so much!!

Careful, Linda. The Daikon radish are certainly delish but they'll take two months or more to mature vs 20 to 30 days for a standard radish like Cherry Belle, Early Scarlett Globe, etc.

French Breakfast is early though, and is a real pretty radish, too. Jump on those!

Thanks, Rick for sharing your seeds with Linda's new project.

Shoe

Ok, Rick -- what Shoe said!

I've never grown a radish in my life!

Oh m'gosh...

Linda...grow radishes! Growing radish will give us hope in life, and in the garden. A pleasure and treasure to behold. Ya gotta love it!

Shoe

Sure thing, no problemo. (You guys are flatterers!)

You're probably right about the Daikon being slow to mature. The vendor said "52 days" and I didn't think about that. I forget how qucik they were to germinate in my clay, but the fact that they survived and flowered and seeded made me think they were tough and unkillable.

I forgot that you were providing sedlings! I thought the kids might be doing a "germination race" and excited to see what came up first. Anyway, I'll send a variety.

Am trying to get to the site for how to make an E bucket.

Scroll back up to July 15th. That is where the step by step instructions start.

Thank you for sharing this tutorial Linda!!

Tbaby,
You're very welcome! Keep me posted on your progress, please.

Godspeed, and Good Harvest!

Linda

sounds like a lot of fun!!

Gymgirl....just reading the step by step. I see the collander in Step 2, but what is the white in step 3? Is it just a different type?

Yes, Sheila. It's a pic of another type of colander. I'll edit the post to clarify.

Thanks!

Thanks! I need to do this for my pots at the front door of the house. I forget to water them quite often and they get the hot west sun.

Thanks for the careful pictorial on the E-bucket.
I shall come back to it next spring.
I did not know to keep the lid for it.

Bucket update. The following is my current fall/winter bucket garden. Please note, these buckets are free-draining (no built-in colander reservoir), and I have to water them almost every day now, because there are no reservoirs.

But, I wanted to show you that it is possible to grow veggies in buckets -- and built-in eBucket reservoirs just help tremendously with the watering schedule!

Hugs!
FALL/WINTER VEGGIE GARDEN 2011 - BRASSICAS

Hi Linda and All!

I have been reading intently from Dave's Garden to here - following the creation of the ebucket - with excitement! I learned about the earthboxes, then found a link online to the 2 bucket system, then found the thread where the ebucket was born - WOW!!

That very same day I had been standing in the Dollar Store looking at *everything* with that new eye - could this be a component in a bucket system? I picked up a colander and thought "Hmmmmmm" is there any way to make this work with it.... I didn't buy it but went home and Googled colander and self watering container and found you guys WAY ahead of my little brain (by several years!) Nice to know I was at least on the right path though.

I ran the next day and got 10 free buckets and 10 colanders and got to work! What fun! Right now I have 1 two-bucket planter, 11 single bucket planters, 2 itty bitty ones made from small styrofoam coolers, and 2 Big Daddy ebuckets - BIG tubs. One is a real ebucket and the other is a 2 tub. That's because all were given to me and one big tub already had holes drilled along the bottom, so no making it into a stand alone planter. Using it as the top of a 2 tub system seemed to make the most sense.

Everything in my planters is doing really well - the mix is moist, I have only needed to 'top off' the water every couple of days so far and we've had real heat already (in the 90s and the next few will be hitting 100). I'm really hoping this will be a big year for harvest. It has already been a great year for new ideas and lots of fun. :)

I have pictures if anyone wants to see!

Thank you Linda and Coconut and Gessieviolet (gosh I nearly feel like i know you all after reading your posts for so long) for your creation of the ebucket! It is very cool! I can make one now in around 8 minutes without hurrying - they just go together so easily! I've also moved to making my own colander. Those big plastic tubs that ice cream come in work great and we usually seem to have an empty one laying around so - drill holes and voila!