I schedule the watering as to provide just enough moister for the grow bags to absorb everything before the next watering cycle begins. This eliminates standing water issues and the potential for "wet feet" and mosquito larvae to proliferate. The bees love my fish pond and bird bath to get a drink. Cheers!

Yes I like that idea! The bees need all the help they can get! 🐝🌼

We turned all our birdbaths into bee watering stations. We have an Apiary

@@mstessdowney What did you do to make them good for bees?

@@barbaravance6774 we put all different size rocks in the bottom so the bees could sit on them to drink and not fall in and drown

good to know how long pools last! i got several on clearance at end of season last year, but had no idea what to use them for.

@@sandy-rr1by pool can be used for dogs. Dogs love getting in kiddy pools

Nice

I used kiddie pools to garde in in Oklahoma. They lasted 4 years until the h a IL took them out and I had to replace th.

Thank you for this very good information. I was concerned about the degradation of the pools over time. I now know what to get to get the most out of the pools! Thanks, hon!

Can you see a recycle symbol with either a 2 or a 5 in it, or whether or not that turtle pool is made of polypropylene? I'm just wondering if it's a food grade plastic.

​@@lindyswanson12 4 or 5 is safe.😊 1,3,6,7 are bad

Thank you kindly! God bless!

I'm going to use your idea , thank you, living in Florida too and it's either to dry or to wet

Thank you. That is what I was wondering. If you get a lot of rain won’t it collect in the pool and just sit there. The drain holes make sense.

Start selling/sharing them?

Tell me more, pls , about using Walmart reusable bags . Are they the ones material-wise to grow bags ?

I know I’m interested too!

So did I!!! I was THOROUGHLY expecting at least a cameo of it! :D Still made me smile just thinking about it though. Maybe a kiddie pool follow up?! :D hehe

Thanks for the sub and comment! Cheers!

Thank you kindly! I appreciate the share and feedback! Cheers!

Nice tip! Cheers!

MissJean63......I read if you plant catnip around your tomatoes, it deters tomato hornworms!! They hate it, so I've read! Never used it myself, but good luck! 😊( don't know about cats!)❤

Thank you! Cheers!

Thank you very much! Cheers!

Will you please do a video of your project? This is something that I am very interested in.

@@lorirode-off763 I’m not able to post videos right now due to a lack of decent equipment. I also live right next door to a very busy rural road that’s extremely noisy and there’s no way to get good sound recording. We just bought this property around 4 years ago and haven’t gotten a lot done. I’m disabled pretty badly and I’m forced to go slow. But what I’ve been doing is building layers of manure (lots of farms and animals around here), leaves, grass clippings, coffee grounds, compost, cardboard. It’s not officially a lasagna garden but more like a large flat pile of organic matter. My 30’x50’ garden area used to be a horse corral on dirt that makes good adobe blocks. It was very compacted about a foot down and I can barely drive steel posts in it. But the previous owner never cleaned out the corral so lots of manure got trampled into the compacted soil. A neighbor used a small tractor to kind of level the manure and soil but couldn’t really till it. So I just started stacking the soil with stuff on top. My growing beds are made with concrete blocks, placed right on top of the layers and filled the first time with crappy purchased compost and garden soil from the big box store. I don’t till the soil much but for the first year or two I’m working good organic matter into the purchased stuff. I’m currently soaking my first official batch of biochar but I’ve dumped some ashes and charcoal from my fireplace out there. We’ve got very alkaline soil and water so I have to limit the ash. Every year is an improvement. I went out to check my growing beds as they warm from winter and was very pleasantly surprised to find massive quantities of earthworms going nuts breaking things down. This will be my first spring with what I consider to be pretty decent growing beds. I encourage you to look into Korean Natural Farming and it’s offshoot JADAM. It’s a cheap way to make your own fertilizers from your home. I only utilize parts of it but it’s about rehabilitation of the soil. Making lactobacillus really helps soften soil and breaks down vegetation. I’m also investigating a variety of cover crops that I want to plant when the soil warms enough. The roots from sunflowers can grow 4’ deep and break up compacted soil, as do clover and many annual grasses like rye and wheat. I’m always learning something new and trying to adapt what I learn to my conditions and physical abilities. Military service was hard on my body and mind but working in my garden is my physical, mental and spiritual therapy. I’m only trying to get the necessary parts together to rehabilitate this chunk of desert dirt, full of excellent minerals and pretty fair drainage. I put all the pieces together, pretending that I know what I’m doing (because it’s all a giant science fair project) and I’m constantly amazed at how God makes my garden grow. It’s gonna take time and science isn’t for the timid in a garden. But eventually the organic matter will decompose and the earthworms will till the adobe soil in with it. Even if I screw it up with too many leaves, it’ll fix itself eventually. I want to make this soil live and then spread itself out onto the entire lot. The previous owner scraped the surface bare every year to “control weeds.” He murdered the soil by doing so. My job is to bring it back to life to control any weeds!

@@dr.froghopper6711 Wow!😳 I was able to 'see' your garden area, aka horse corral, and the progress you have made by your very indepth description! That was a wonderful 'visit' with you 'at' your place!

Thank you! Cheers!

My question too!

Drill a small hole at the level you choose to limit how much water is in the pool.

Such a cool idea thanks for sharing ☮️❤️💡