Hey there,
We need some advice for this upcoming growing season for our chile peppers. We don't have any garden space to speak of, and converting what meager yard space we have available is too time-consuming for us. Besides that, the soil here has a lot of clay in it and is hard to work with.
What we've done in the last couple of year is grow our chiles in containers, but we don't have enough to grow this year's crop that we've ordered.
What we want to do is to use trough planters, like ones used for veggies. Most trough ones we've seen are for flowers and are a little on the small side, so we need big ones that could hold 2 or 3 plants per trough. Plastic is better, mainly due to cost, but also due to portability. We've looked at our local mega-stores that carry garden stuff (Lowes, Home Depot) and they just don't have the size and/or shape of what we want. Rectangular seems to be the way to go.
We considered just doing a raised bed, but the spot we have to put the peppers in isn't flat enough to fit a raised bed in terms of space.
We were hoping that any of you might have suggestions of who might have or where we could order some large rectangular troughs for our peppers that won't break our budget. Any advice, links, or misc. suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks!!!
We need some advice for this upcoming growing season for our chile peppers. We don't have any garden space to speak of, and converting what meager yard space we have available is too time-consuming for us. Besides that, the soil here has a lot of clay in it and is hard to work with.
What we've done in the last couple of year is grow our chiles in containers, but we don't have enough to grow this year's crop that we've ordered.
What we want to do is to use trough planters, like ones used for veggies. Most trough ones we've seen are for flowers and are a little on the small side, so we need big ones that could hold 2 or 3 plants per trough. Plastic is better, mainly due to cost, but also due to portability. We've looked at our local mega-stores that carry garden stuff (Lowes, Home Depot) and they just don't have the size and/or shape of what we want. Rectangular seems to be the way to go.
We considered just doing a raised bed, but the spot we have to put the peppers in isn't flat enough to fit a raised bed in terms of space.
We were hoping that any of you might have suggestions of who might have or where we could order some large rectangular troughs for our peppers that won't break our budget. Any advice, links, or misc. suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks!!!