This year we did something totally different with our vegetable plants. We bought seeds, planted them in containers. Everything started out great but then our plans got derailed.

Little bit of a back story here. Our girl goats were supposed to be relocated to a brand new pen. However, the pen never got built because we couldn’t get our truck to start. Now we had to decide what were we going to do with the vegetable plants. Our decision was buckets.

The plants that we planted were pepper plants, tomato, zucchini, cucumber, and egg plants.

I did use several big pots from when we bought fruit trees. This was to get the bigger vegetable plants planted. These pots already had holes in the bottom. So far so good!

Vegetable Plant Growing in Black Fruit Tree Pot

I wanted to plant each plant into a 5 gallon bucket but it was too expensive! I used the pots we had on hand and bought ten 5 gallon buckets.

A 5 gallon bucket is about $3. We bought bags of soil which cost about $7 a bag. One bag of soil filled up three buckets.

We used a 1/2 inch Paddle Bit to drill holes into the buckets. Below is a picture of a paddle bit. The right picture is a close up of the bit. As you can see it’s flat, hence the name paddle 😄.

Jacob flipped the buckets over and drilled holes into all of them. There wasn’t a set number of holes. He just covered the bottom with holes.

Once all the buckets had holes, I filled them up with dirt, and placed a plant in each one. You might have to add in more dirt after adding the plant and watering.

Below is a picture of three of our plants that we had planted a few weeks ago .

I placed tomato cages in a lot of the pots to keep the plants straight. We have one plant that is taking over the green house, spreading every where! The plant is in the middle below. It has wrapped around it’s tomato cage and hanging onto the other plants and going all over the ground.

Ideally it would have been great if I had added something bigger for it to climb on. I actually thought the plant was a squash plant but it looks like a cucumber plant. I think some tags had gotten mixed up. Whoops 🤭. Better planning next year!

If you go down this route of putting plants into the buckets, make sure you water them every day. If the soil looks wet you can always skip a day but don’t let it dry out.

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