Why Container Gardens?
The design uses one plastic bucket inside another to create a water reservoir at the bottom, which encourages the plants to grow deep roots, cuts down on water requirements as much as 75 percent, and will yield good harvests of veggies on folks' back stoops or back yards with minimal watering and no additional fertilizing. Each garden contains a tomato, eggplant, zucchini or pepper plant. We'll be distributing the gardens in the second week of May.
Our test container garden, a tomato plant started about three weeks ago, is doing great. The roots of the plant grow down into the reservoir, making the plant stronger, better supported, more immune to drought, and better nourished.
Check out more pictures of our process over on our flickr site.
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