Comments on: Using Containers In Your Garden

By: P.Price

P.Price — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:40:19 +0000

These are great ideas…but I do worry about bisphenol A, phthlates, and other potentially harmful chemicals leaching into the soil from the plastics. It is for this reason I will no longer use plastics for growing food (ornamentals are fine). If this stuff, gets into our kids’ bodies through bottles and sippy cups and affects their hormone levels, what’s not to stop it from getting into their food, especially in long, hot summers?

By: Matt Mayer

Matt Mayer — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:49:33 +0000

Mrs Greenhand–I’d love to see some pictures of how you have creatively reused these items. If you would like send them to me at mattamayer@gmail.com and I’ll do a feature on it. Thanks

By: Mrs. Greenhands

Mrs. Greenhands — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:00:14 +0000

Noticing the Little Tykes sliding board in the photo above – I’ve used many of my children’s old Little Tykes items as planters. The turle sandbox is now a nursery bed for rooting new cuttings, the one piece kitchen set has trailing vines growing in the sink and microwave, the roof from the covered sliding board is a bird bath and the basketball goal is now home to climbing morning glories and gourds. I have also used my kids old wagons, bicycles, pogo stix and shoes to make containers or climbing structures. It’s a way for my garden to be connected to my children!