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Date: 15:05:18 on Monday, May 11, 2009
Name: Tarhel
Subject: How much would it weigh full of wet soil?
It's actually an old idea -- someone once sold a tall pot with holes in the sides to plant tomatoes (Fingerhut?) The pot actually makes more sense because the bag weigh so much (soon you will be selling extra-strong hooks).
ON the farm we started tomatoes in a hot bed in February and after a few weeks, transplanted them to "pots" made out of 5-gal plastic buckets. The pots were just the right size that we could put them in a kid's wagon and move them into the barn (or the garage) if the weathermen forecasted a late freeze.
Then during the late fall we put cheese-cloth over the tomato plants in the garden to protect them from frost -- we could usually grow tomatoes until about Thanksgiving. Then when a hard freeze was in the forecast, we could pick the green tomatoes, wrap each one in a newspaper, and store then in a cool room -- they would slowly ripen through New Years.
The quick selling gadget in the South in a plastic bucket with holes so that it can be staked-down upside down over a fire ant nest so that pets can't get to the poison. They are charging about $15 for a kit consisting of a cheap plastic bucket and poison.
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