Smart Pots and Big Bag Beds

A few posts ago, I said that I was going to talk about the free stuff I got at the 2015 Garden Writers Symposium. I’ll start with these Smart Pots. If you’ve read my bog, you know that I LOVE free stuff. – Doesn’t everyone? – It’s one of the best parts of my job. Look at what I got!

I got three sizes of Smart Pots: 10, 15, and 20 inches. I’ll plant those in spring.

I also got three sizes of the Big Bag Bed. This next picture gives the details on the middle-sized bed.

I planted three mint plants in my Big Bag Bed Mini. Mint needs to be contained so that it doesn’t spread all over the garden, and it likes to be planted in something relatively wide and shallow, so this is perfect. I needed more mint because I have a new favorite summertime drink. I muddle mint in a glass, then add lemonade, sweet tea vodka and a lemon slice. Delicious!

I planted spinach and lettuce in the Big Bag Bed Jr. This next picture was taken on 9-28-15, soon after planting.

When I got the bags, I had a choice of black or purple. The color is off in that last picture. They aren’t that blue.

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The three stakes in the middle are there so that when a heavy frost is predicted, I can throw a blanket over the bed without crushing the plants.

Isn’t that a pretty little lettuce?

I also got a bunch of promotional material. My favorite idea for how to use the Smart Pots comes from author C.L. Fornari, and I’m stealing it. For years, I’ve been planting tropical plants in plastic pots and sinking them into larger containers. At the end of the season I pull the plastic pots out and overwinter them in the house. My problem is that the roots always grow out of the bottom of the plastic pot and into the old potting soil that fills the bottom of my big ceramic container. C.L. says that won’t happen with the Smart Pots. Problem solved. Thanks C.L.. And a huge THANKS to the nice man who loaded me up with all those Smart Pots. Here’s another link to the Smart Pots website.

After seeing how well my spinach and lettuce have done in the Big Bag Bed, I can’t wait to see how the peppers, tomatoes and squash do in it next year. I’ll let you know.