Do you want to garden, but don’t have enough yard? Do you have difficulties getting anything out of container gardening? No problemo. You’re exactly where you need to be.

Like lots of people in urban and suburban areas, I don’t have much space that’s appropriate for gardening. You may think, Hey, Canada is supposed to be cold, but the truth is for a short time it gets very, very hot: upwards of 42C and higher on some days (110+F). This is a major challenge for container gardens with their small, easy to heat “soil beds” and lack of accessible water. Many container plants will suffer and die horrible deaths despite your best efforts.

There is a thing called a Sub-Irrigated Planter (or SIP for short) or sometimes known as a self-watering container. The concept is simple: you have a large-ish reservoir beneath the surface that feeds water upwards to your plants. And a quick Google will tell you many ways to make or buy SIPs, from the EarthBox, which is simple but costly, to thousands of different types of home-made SIPs from buckets and Rubbermaid tubs.

YOU SHOULD NOT GROW YOUR FOOD IN A — USED PLASTIC BUCKET OR RUBBERMAID TUB

CONTINUE READING AND FIND OUT WHY! 

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Anne usually speaks in memes and SAT words, and she frequently attempts to explain the laws of physics and high school chemistry according to the kitchen via her home blog FoodRetro. If you want to know why ice melts or pretzels turn brown, and you want to make food that you never imagined could be made from scratch in the process, she's your blogger. Her friends describe her as "hilarious when you get to know her," but it could be that they are just amused by the way she gets riled up when reading the paper. She can also be found playing the part of community editor and grammar nazi here on BLUNTmoms.

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