Smart Pots 12100 Big Bag Bed Fabric Raised Bed, Black

Ok, Smart Pots awesome. See my photo taken 10th October 2015, where it's STILL producing like mad [picked a bunch of yellow summer squash, cukes and still tomatoes this morning], in Colorado no less. I just bought several Junior bag beds to add to my garden to grow more next year, (ditching all other pots) and some taller pot style Smart Pots to try potatoes & some new things. For Soil, additives, fertilizer and irrigation I used, see below.. it was foolproof, anyone could do this. I used a mix of (all organic) garden soil for raised beds (NOT potting soil), my own & some commercial compost dirt (I compost over winter, Colorado Boulder area gets 300 days of sun, so it works), some vermiculite to aerate and retain moisture, little bit of lime on the tomatoes side, some coir throughout and shoved uncomposted bananas, eggshells, coffee grounds & some other soft, non seeded veggie waste, straight into the soil all season. I planted the seedlings I raised back in Feb (inside by a south facing window, in a cheap little greenhouse that can be disassembled). I placed a mint plant (chocolate mint because I like the flowers) in the middle (MUST be in a container, in the earth, not direct planted or it will take over your bed & garden !) to keep bugs at bay and it worked, I don't used any herbicides or pesticides & grow completely organic, I use Dr. Earth 706P Organic 7 All Purpose Fertilizer in Poly Bag, 4-Pound fertilizer (various ones for general and tomatoes etc) The Coir I used, was this one and I just bought more Compressed Coconut Coir Brick, 10 Pound (lb)-Green Texan Organic Farms I irrigated it with just micro line drippers running off a standard garden hose connected to a timer system, used one 2 gal-per-hour dripper at the bottom of each tomato plant (4 of them - 2 yellow salad pear and 2 giant heirloom and got SO MANY I ran out of room in our giant freezer after making 2 very big batches of sauce (over 60 pounds worth), eating pounds, giving bags of them away), PLUS planted eggplant (1 plant), cucumber (1 plant), summer squash (4 plants, different kinds) and a bell pepper. I increased auto watering time over the summer as they grew and rooted deeper. Very efficient & easy. It all fit in the largest Bag Bed, Not ONE thing died or failed to produce, they all grew and all produced incredibly well all summer (some still are & it's almost mid Oct), especially the tomatoes, squash and cukes. Best growing system I ever used. EVER. Better than my raised cedar bed or whiskey barrel or other pots or ground planting and I can reuse it for at least a few years. I'm also going to try my herbs in the upright hanging-garden style ones next season, attached to the fence, being all about efficient watering and irrigation on everything, because I have automatic timers set up on 3 garden hose lines with a 12 line micro tube manifold set up on each hose for my veggies, flowers & herbs to each bed and pot, so for a disabled person, this makes it possible for me to garden, for an able person, it makes it effortless, once set up. It was lot of effort to set all this up, mostly the irrigation, but the Smart Pots were the absolute easiest part and WOW are they sturdy and work exceedingly well at growing anything. I'm prepping my new ones now for next year so all I have to do is turn the soil a bit, fertilize and throw my seedlings in there. Just Awesome and pays for itself in organic produce in weeks once fruiting starts. I did also use an Earth Box to grow more tomatoes and although they produced well, it was a complete pain to water down a tube (my only manual watering, because a micro line wouldn't fill it during the timer watering I had everything on), to fill the base of the box so it would wick up water. The legs collapsed on the one I had, so I put it on the ground, but the rubber thing holding the (barely big enough) black plastic you have to use, over the plant bases snapped as soon as it got some sun and kind of flapped there all summer with the plants just holding it (I tried to tie it, but kept coming loose), but resulted in a lot of evap and the plants never got as big and fruitful as the Smart Pots plants which were a lot less effort. Nope, not affiliated with this company in anyway, but I'll praise the product all day long.

Today I bought my fourth one. Bought my first one last year, moved and took it with me (a neighbor took all the soil), unfolded it this spring, bought two more, and I can't stop. Love these. They hold a TON of soil. I mean that literally. According to Google, a yard of soil is about a ton. These things are huge, and you can become a successful urban or suburban farmer with these. I live in an old house in a rural area, and have the good fortune of having a huge back area. These big bag beds have changed my life . . . From city girl to real gardener. It's been a joy to use these, and grow my own cabbage, lettuce, zucchini, cucumbers, kale, tomatoes, jalapeños, cauliflower, scallions, parsley, basil. I plant flowers with my veggies and herbs, and the results are beautiful as well as practical. Petunias, marigolds, sunflowers, violas bring color and pollinators to the beds. Not everything needs to be seeded. I've had great success using plant stand bargains with my own seedlings, so the bags don't look entirely empty at the season's start. These bags, Smart Pots, and fabric containers from Milliard have changed my life: I currently have 3 BBB going, another on the way, and about 30 other pots from 1 gallon to 20 gallons going with flowers, veggies, herbs of all kinds. They wear like iron. The pots survived the NE winter and were ready to plant this spring. Easily dragged the smaller ones back out into the main yard area, after the winter. Those seeded with perennials just did their thing with the spring. Next year, fruit!

I love using large round grow bags on metal outdoor table tops. On this one, I had to improvise and put wooden planks around the bottom edge to make so it didn't hang over an inch all around. It's not really deep enough to use it on the ground. You're better off buying a deeper round metal or rectangle container for a raised bed on the ground for versatility. I have another grow bag that is 40 inches on a 2nd table, but that leaves 6 inches of unused space all around. Table tops are great for growing bush green beans because you can easily harvest without bending over. On. both table top bags, I've lined them with stiff landscape edging to prevent the top edge from collapsing in. The result is a study growing medium and use of a table over concrete to expand your growing space. Such grow bags also work well for greens, turnips, radishes, or beets.

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This is a super simple nice and deep raised bed. I am putting in an order for two more. Very pleased that the packaging does not include any plastic (bonus points here). No fussing with frames and supports. Good sturdy material. I filled it up with my own mix of 50% manure, 34% peat moss, 16% sand. I sift these ingredients using 1/4" wire mesh stretched over a wooden frame. It takes about 6 wheel barrows to fill. I have tried various raised beds over the years as the Island we live on is mostly rocks and poor soil. I like that this bed does not have a frame of wood, bricks or rocks that attract ants.

Ordered 2 of these to start a garden in my new backyard. They are perfect if you don't want to dig up grass and deep enough for growing root vegetables

Very cool. I did not keep, returned for a more suitable option for me (rectangular planter). Not the thickest material, but would certainly work well and hold up to a few seasons. Price point is good for this type of planter.

Well I have bought so many of these already and need to buy some more..... We had a terrible wind storm here a downburst and a tree fell on the one bed.......the plants were crushed but the bed held up fine. I would buy another one of these in a heartbeat....... they are easy setup..........