How To Use Fabric GROW BAGS For The Container Garden Of Your Dreams

Have you ever wondered how to use fabric grow bags to create the container garden of your dreams? I share 7 container gardening tips for incredible success gardening in grow bags! With these gardening tips, you'll be able to build a container garden for a fraction of the price of hard plastic containers!

Fabric grow bags are inexpensive, durable, easy to move, easy to store and are often shipped free! Compare that to large nursery containers with high up front costs and expensive shipping due to the large size. I have been growing in grow bags for years, and I want to share my secrets for container gardening success, as well as the one thing you should NEVER use fabric grow bags for!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Fabric Grow Bag Benefits
2:41 Tip #1: Sizing Grow Bag
4:58 Tip #2: Locating Grow Bags
8:17 Tip #3: Grow Bag Longevity
9:47 Grow Bag Brand Comparison
11:16 Tip #4: Potting Soil
12:58 Tip #5: Mulching & Irrigation
14:14 Tip #6: Fertilizing Grow Bags
16:54 Tip #7: Refreshing Containers
18:07 Never Plant This In Grow Bags!
22:09 Adventures With Dale

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[TheMillennialGardener]

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0:00 Fabric Grow Bag Benefits
2:41 Tip #1: Sizing Grow Bag
4:58 Tip #2: Locating Grow Bags
8:17 Tip #3: Grow Bag Longevity
9:47 Grow Bag Brand Comparison
11:16 Tip #4: Potting Soil
12:58 Tip #5: Mulching & Irrigation
14:14 Tip #6: Fertilizing Grow Bags
16:54 Tip #7: Refreshing Containers
18:07 Never Plant This In Grow Bags!
22:09 Adventures With Dale

[Wellbaby]

I’m 81 and 4’9” and find that 7 gallon is the max that I can handle weight-wise. If I had your guns, 20 gallon would be doable. I have 40 bags growing everything on my deck. I made your potting mix and set up everything on timed drip tubing. Our Dallas summer was brutal, but everything held together thanks to your shade cloth video. Love my grow bags!

[tracysg]

I found that lining my grow bags with cardboard- sies and bottom, really helps extend the life of the bags and they don't need irrigation as often.

[AmandaRPatterson]

I've had great luck with grow bags in Houston Tx. I learned the hard way to use bigger containers; I won't use anything smaller than 5 gallon next summer. I would offer two pieces of advice for others who live in a very warm climate:

Use tan grow bags, not black, for anything not super heat loving such as sweet potatoes, melons, Malabar spinach, and the like. It makes a HUGE difference. They're a tiny bit more expensive but not much.

In addition to piling mulch thickly on top of the soil, you can also pile it around your grow bags. This will help insulate them. It doesn't even have to be nice hardwood mulch; things like grass clippings or leaves or green material work just fine.

[tanyabriggs]

I loved my fabric pots here in the Pacific NW. Only July-Aug was a challenge since that's only months we don't rain almost daily. 😂. Even my Dalhias overwintered believe it or not. Not common in other pots. I loved 2 things. They prevented my heavily surrounded trees and hedges from invading the pots like they will any large tubs you can't easily move. AND slugs and squirrels tended to avoid them. But my neighbors complained. No soft pots allowed they said. And neither were my colorful 5 gal bucket pepper garden in back yard. We have people that complain about handles on fabric pots AND buckets. I'm not kidding. 😢

[philalfred]

We live in the icy cold Southwest Wyoming.

We can't grow in ground, our soil is far too alkaline soil. We grow exclusively in fabric grow bags, and black plastic containers.

We had the most amazing harvest of tomatoes, chili peppers, including super hot chilies, onions (using companion planting) multiple herbs and flowers for our pollinators!

We had the absolute most bumper crop that we have ever had!

We have very limited space. We grew an amazing crop of cucumbers as well!

Rock on, brother! Even from the icy north of Wyoming!

We also grew 100 lbs of potatoes and 15 lbs of onions!

[moon.phoenix]

If you're using a 5 gal bag, put it into a 5 gal bucket with an overflow drain hole 3-5 inches up to keep in some of the moisture and nutrients from fertilizer. For larger bags you can keep them in a large tote with similar overflow drain holes for the same purpose. 😊

[erikahuxley]

Two things I do with grows bags to retain nutrient and water. One is placing saucers under the grow bags. The other is adding compost to the grow mix, around 25% to 33% of the total mix. Normally I never use compost in plastic containers, but for grow bags there are lots more drainage and aeration so it is forgiving and less prone to becoming anaerobic. The compost help with retaining the moisture and nutrients.

[TheDudefLife]

My elderly mom grew up in the Appalachian mountains of WV in a large family, the youngest of 10 siblings. They had no refrigeration and they grew and canned everything and had a root celler dug into the bank of a hill for potatoes, onions, etc. She said my grandpa had 9 different gardens situated on the hillsides anywhere there was a flat spot you could plant some rows. And she said when he harvested his cabbages he would just dig a hole, line it with straw, and bury them deep in the dirt. Then through the fall and winter he would just go out and dig them up as needed. You just remove the big outer leaves and the inside would be fine. I garden because I absolutely love it, but back then they did it because they had no choice. They HAD to or they would starve. Great channel. Thanks.

[commonlaw]

I line the bottom and sides of fabric bags with wet cardboard. Put pepper plants in some and buried the bag in a raised bed to retain moisture. Easy to lift out to condition pepper plant for winter storage.

[jo-annjewett]

We covered our entire garden with 40% shade cloth here in south Texas thanks to your advice! The plants are doing so much better. I have a lot of grow bags too.

[izzyg]

The 101 of grow bags. Super educational for a beginner such as myself. Thank you so much, I've learned a lot with this video. 👍

[gdpope]

I have some of my fabric grow bags inside a crate. Protects a little from the sun and easier to move.

[gregbluefinstudios]

I grow in Herbs in 3 gallon, Peppers in 5 gallon, , tomato in 7 and 10 gallon, Smaller squash and Zucchini in 10 gallon, and Potato, Onion, Carrot, and large Squash in 25 gallon. In total, maybe 120 Fabric Grow Bags for the past 5 years. Typically add 5 to 10 per year. One thing I do when building my soil, is 1/3 Peat, 1/3 Old Soil from my Compost piles, and 1/3 new soil. I typically fertilizer with organic granular once a month (April - Sept) and I use a liquid fertilizer once a week. the use of Compost, Leaf Mulch, Straw, is why I am comfortable with the granular. As well as a refresh each spring when starting the bags, I find myself refresh soil w/ soil/compost from my piles at least once per summer. That adds the biology/organics to help break down the granular.

[jeannamcgregor]

I'm doing no-dig in my in-ground and raised beds, but 10 gallon grow bags are the only way I'll grow potatoes in the future. Harvesting is a snap! And in the winter I can move them into the sunnier north side of my garden to keep the potatoes coming. And they are repairable with a sewing machine.

[lisacolmey]

Ive been using bags for a while.. I cut holes in the bottom so the worms can make their way in there and they do. I also compost in place, in the bag, when they are empty . The other thing i do is add alphla pellets to them in the fall, and cover with mulch for the winter season

[brichter]

I don't have room for an in-ground garden in my small backyard, so I use GreenStalk vertical planters and fabric grow bags and put them on my large outdoor patio. I put my grow bags on rolling plant caddies for ease of moving them around. I also put the bags in heavy duty plant saucers so that when I water them, the excess water drains into the saucer, which the bag wicks up from the bottom. The fertilized water isn't wasted when doing this. I like the Hydrofarm Green Premium Saucers online from Grow Green MI. The water in your area must not be very hard. The water in my area of south Texas is very hard. By the end of the growing season, my bags have a whitish coating on the outside.

[KK-FL]

I'd still be using that torn bag 😂 I just started using grow bags (Epic Gardening's brand) this year and I love it more than I expected. They are lined on the sides so they don't dry out so much. One big tip is not to water if you want to move your bag (if it's a big one) because they get super heavy.

[jeas]

I love my grow bags... I have over a hundred of them. It started when my daughter told me she was getting married and I got a quote from a florist. I have a substantially large greenhouse and we decided to grow her flowers since it was an outdoor wedding. The grow bags made it very convenient to hull the flowers to the venue (for outdoor use, of course). Then I had 50 5 gallon and 50 10 gallon bags to use for other things and crop after crop (annuals) I just get better results. For that "micronutrient/macrobiotic" punch... try making feted swamp water and adding it once a week. Smells terrible but works miracles. I downloaded the Dynamic Accumulator spreadsheet and try to balance out nutrients in the compost swamp water by adding a few different local plants to the mix every week. It's been working really really well.

[rhondaavasalu]

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