Sound silly??? I hope not
Absolutely NOT, sounds like a very nice idea....
Do you have any Dollar Stores out there?
Or even Wally~World *Wal~Mart* has some bigger pots for about $5.oo *here* and the only hang up is there wasn't any drain holes *DUH** and I had to take my husbands drill and drill them in....
But they were some nice sized pots, Drk Grn, Terra Cotta, and cream and white colors too...
Same for the Dollar Stores...
They were rectangled shape...
I have a niece that lives out there, maybe she can point me into a direction that has a store that would have items like that..
The only problem I came up with was FILLING IT WITH DIRT, the pots were so big... I had to improvise alot so I wasn't filling the entire pot up... found packing peanuts I'd saved and put a square or circle of landscape fabric on top, *SO all the dirt didn't slid in between the packing peanuts and I can re~use the dirt again, with out getting all the peanuts mixed in...I used old dog bones we got for the dog to chew on from the butchers at the groceries stores, and thru them in the bottom, hey great for calcium and good for extra weight to weigh the pots down if you have something that's top heavy....
MIND YOU, I did say OLD DOG BONES, nothing fresh, these have been around for a few years we keep recycling.. You don't want any meat in your garden that can cause unwanted "pests" in the garden...
OR you can use rocks...Great for drainage...
I know Papito also gardens in containers as he has a small area of land to garden in, I"m sure he can give a hint or two for that kind of gardening...
I am very happy with my raised beds, they warm up faster in the
spring, and I"ve got landscape fabric on the top of mine, so hardly NO
weeds at all. They're right at hip level so, when a
plant like a tomato grows, it's right at picking height.
Down sides are, they need a bit more water in the hot and windy days, because it drains faster!!!!!!! Compost helps though.
And rototilling can be a bit different in it,
this year I worked the soil by hand and it took alot longer, will try a different method next year too probably..
Weezie