Larry will be greatly missed. What an inspiration he has been to gardeners everywhere.

sad to hear Larry Passed on, but glad his videos are still up, I'm building one of his style kiddie pool gardens right now, and glad I have his videos to help me get it done right the first time! RIP Larry sorry for his family and friends loss!

RIP Larry. Your passion for these unique gardening systems will always be undeniable. Thank You - Larry

What a gift Larry has given, an amazing person! Building several of these this spring 👍

I did this with both a kiddie pool and a 3X6' rectangle to grow peppers. They looked good and had way more peppers than I ever needed. Everything from paprika to jalapenos, Tabasco, and bell peppers. This system really WORKS! Thanks.

Just found your videos, look forward to watching them. Sorry to read that Larry has passed away. R.I.P 🌸🙏🌹

This takes those kiddie pools to a whole new level. Plus I like how it can literally be any system now, as long as it's a box or a formed shape!

I have done the kiddie pool system. I like the idea of putting in wood chips. Also the water float. Larry Hall, you are FANTASTIC!!!!

Just another ingenious way to garden. Great Larry.

Thanks so much! I had to show this to my husband. He love building things...so now he is on board with me and my gardening :)

Thanks Larry!...You are awesome..I hope the cold weather moves out of your area soon and you can start putting in place all your wonderful new ideas! ♥

This is fantastic, it could really help people. Thank you for posting! I will spread the knowledge.

I have to say, I've truly enjoyed your posts Larry! My boys and I are already starting our garden for this year and plan on using many of your ideas including the growbags and kiddie pool system. We are so excited to see what we produce. Thank you again for all your suggestions and tips!!

Rip haven’t been here much in the last year. Always enjoy you videos. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 to family

This is exactly what I needed! Totally doing this!

Wow Larry! Thank you so much! You are AMAZING! Your help is such a BLESSING!!!

That’s awesome! Thanks from another Minnesota Gardner! 🥬🥦🌺

I so love this setup... Thank you.. Float ordered..

I’m trying bag gardening for the first time this year. I hope I have success! Thanks for info!

I'm soooooo excited to get started! Spring can't come to Chicago soon enough!!!! I still some help with building the floater box!!! Thanks guys.

OMG! TOO CUTE. I LOVE IT.

I think im going to use the kiddie.pool system with sand on the bottom .Ill just need to keep it wet and mosquitoes wont be a problem .Thank you Larry from this side .

Excellent Job Sue !! and great design Larry !! :D awesome

Hi, I was "creating" a similar system in my head this moring when I saw your post! Have joined your facebook group! Can't wait to learn more!

Great tips. Thanks for creating this and sharing :)

Thank you for the great ideas!

I'm so excited. I planted in grow bags this year and they didnt do well at all. I did a terrible job watering them. I cant wait to try again with a float and a nice frame!

This system look amazing I was considering building a aeroponic tower until I seen your rain gutter grow system which looks like it would be better for my needs can't wait to build this thanks for sharing all your advice And knowledge Toby

Didn't have a kiddy pool so I used one of those under the bed storage units.

Love Love Love your videos Larry! I'm gonna do this very system this summer :) Ordered seeds and bags yesterday. Haven't decided on the look I want yet for the water reservoirs but I have a little time to figure that out. So excited because I'm terrible at remembering to water my plants and then they of course don't do so well. I love how easy and low maintenance this seems. Thanks for sharing your ideas with the world...I love learning new techniques that WORK!

thank you sue, and larry from up in brainerd

Great idea! Thanks for sharing~!

Another great idea. Thanks for posting the video

Hiya neighbors, from Sebring and Florida Keys. We appreciate the videos very much! We have subscribed!

Awesome love it......❤️

Great idea Larry, I love it and will be trying it out this next year, Thanks, Kim

Thank you so much Larry

Larry, I have to tell you that I love the way you express yourself. You have got such a loveable voice. And yes, your system is very clever too and I, definitely, will be trying the kiddie pool system myself. Great Innovation. All the best, J.

Beautiful

Thanks for sharing on your kiddie pool ideas. I love to do the home garden,but hate the weeds. You really helping me solved the problems. I think I will try home garden again this year. P.s love your web site

*I want to grow corn, but am intimidated. This makes it look doable. Thank you. 🌽🌽🌽* Sharon in SC

Wonderful!!!!!!! I would think less water use also due to the rock filling the space and less direct sun hitting the water. Good work!

Larry, your a good guy

This is wild!

Love it, I seen your kiddie pool and was thinking of making one like a raised bed that would look better and last longer, the rock idea is great. Cant wait til spring

Larry, this is so cool! We are going to try this in AZ next year when we get back. Water is always a challenge in that heat!

Thanks!

Brilliant

Very nice Larry I will be trying somthing like that this year. Great stuff Sir. Dave

Larry I had to share on my fb group page.. Awesome set up... Thank you!

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Rest In Peace Larry!😩😩😢🥦🥬🍅🥕🥕😩 His videos were helpful!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Another great video!

This has me wanting to put these things all over the place. This is the cleverest yet simplest idea ever. Using it for corn is great because of corn wanting plenty of water especially when tasseling, setting ears and growing plump juicy corn. In a partial shade area for growing lettuces, another winner! You're only limited by your own imagination. Great stuff Larry, keep it coming. lol

Great info, well done. I'm now a subscriber 👍

May he rest in peace.. God Bless!!!

for skeeter, use a pack of lemonade that costs 20 cents, the acid kills larva I put it in my rain barrels and water tanks one inch of rain off my roof means 1,100 gallons which is my total container holding capacity = 40 days without rain

This Is An Amazing System!

I'm going to need to add something like those pebbles. I have straw in there. I already have bugs!

THIS IS GREAT....

I have planted in totes this year due to a new yared with lots of shade. I wnated it to be portable so I could find the best location. Now I want to redo it all into this system.

Love it :)

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I've used kiddie pools for years, they do work well for water retention. I've never tried it this way.

Super...

I’ll take it a step further, now put natural mulch ( pine ) from Homedepot and put it on top of the rock and it will slow evaporation...

I wonder if you put about a 3" circle of aluminum flashing around the bottom of the grow bag, the gravel would stay put when you need to replace the bag or replenish the potting mix.

great idea with the float and rocks. I live in SC would the water get to hot in the summer for the roots?

I don’t have Facebook so thank you for posting this wonderful idea on KZfaq! So excited to give it a try this spring.

Larry. Do you still have to cut a home at the bottom of the grow bag, or can you just set the bag uncut in the leaf gravel for enough water to wick up? Thanks

Larry, I just wanted to say thanks for the idea of the grow bag watering system. I brought some reusable shopping bags and instead of putting them in a pool I used 2 old totes that held 3 bags each. I put 1 tomato plant in each bag and set them on my porch. I had some nails already along the top of the porch from Christmas lights or something and tied a string for each of the plants from the nails and drilled holes on the sides of the totes and tied them in there and wrapped the tops of the plants as they grew.They grew to the top of the 8' porch I am very happy with this method and the results. The only problems I had were with blossom end rot. I lost a lot of my tomatoes about the size of a golf ball because of it. I made a slurry of lime which seemed to help. It's now the first of October and the plants are still thriving.

Newbie here....Does anyone know if instead of the float system, can you place rocks in and just add the water to under 3 inches (allowing for the drainage still)?

I apologize if this has been asked on a different video, or even further down in the thread. Would there be any benefit to adding worms to a grow bag?

Are the bags down in the gravel or do they sit on top? It's hard to tell from the pictures. Thanks

Hi Larry, do you have problems with this in winter with water freezing into ice if outdoors for example? How do you get around this problem?

For mosquito control, instead of gravel, go to the pet shop and get 2 or 3 feeder goldfish for each pool, a lot cheaper. They will eat the larvae and the algae. Minnows or Guppies also work.

Larry, I live in the California desert where it never rains. The heat here kills a lot of the bucket plants because they need more water due to the sun and heat. Now I know that we can fill the water and keep it at 2 1/2 inches in the pool, but do you still have to water the plant on top also? And if yes how much and how many times living in the desert? Or is the water in the pool enough?

I like the ideals thank you. I seen the video and i like your information, i noticed you using an extra container for the float. Just an ideal if you want to make that pool look more uniform with plants take that float out of the pool so you can use that space for one more bag. But since you still need a float no problem, just use a container like the one you have for your float now, but do not drill the holes in the bottom. Instead drill one hole for the input(the hole for the float and input water), and only one hole for the output, connect the output of the float box to a hole in the side of the pool using a closed nipple, it can be huge too, like a 2 to 3 inch dia. closed nipple connecting the float box to the pool. this way you can still monitor and input water automatically at the same time use every last bit of the pool and making it look more symmetrical. Now when the float calls for water it open the input valve, and the water comes in the float box and out the output hole and begins to fill the pool, until the pool level is level with your float apparatus it will stop inputting water. It will be just outside the pool connected to the side at the height you need. can even then be covered with plastic and woodbark, etc...

Can you use wood chips instead of rocks to prevent mosquitos?

Larry is there any soil recipes that include compost that would work great with this system??? Thanks!

Larry, Watching your videos I got several great ideas & I want to thank you for posting them. They have solved a dilemma I had for redoing my backyard with all these systems you've posted. I live in Los Angeles Cnty CA. and water is a resource that's taken for granted by the majority of it's residents.Right now I use grey water for my lawn (so far so good). I'm curious if grey water works for the vegetable systems you've posted. Several online articles contradict each other so I'm wondering if this is something you or your readers have experience in? Thanks again Larry for your posts/videos and sharing these amazing systems!

Thank you Larry and Sue Green. Careful, gravel or other rock might leech out lime, it will pike your PH sky. Test your rock for lime, seek youtube video in it. I used lava rock, tested and show neutral, no change in my PH water. JJB

can you put the buckets with holes in the kiddie pool, as long as cover the wholes with cloth

Larry, do you have any particular way for staking up your plants?? In the pools how do you prevent sprawling??

both pop bottle garden and kiddie pool gardens are awesome ideas, live in a trailer house so no room for garden but this has possibilities. was wondering can you plant things like peas, green beans, potatoes and maybe a watermelon in the kiddie pools? wish I lived in the country. : ( any advice on these plants in pool? thanks for your help

Google won't let me get to your website not sure if you're having sight issues or they've blocked it for some reason. Is there any way you can list the items needed for the system here? What size grow bags fit Best in the baby pool?

any issue using mulch instead of gravel?

Larry, what size is the grow bags. 1 gallon or 5 gallon ??? thank you

My family used to laugh at me because I'd pick up kiddie pools from the curves by my house. I would use them as my "Plant Clinics". lol. They would hold small, sickly plants or dried out plants. I stopped using them because of mosquitos. Anything plastic could be safely painted. Thanks for sharing!

I built the RGGS however my question is this. Since the containers are always wicking up from the bottom will I get rot in the bottom of the container?

So what if you put small pebbles or gravel in the pool around the bags above the water level.... would that solve the mosquito problem...?

Im going to try this.Very impressed. I would like to know do you put the bags in first then surround with pea rocks or set the bags on rocks. Isee her float is on top of pea rocks.thank you

Would this be a cheaper setup then the normal rain gutter system?

Larry, do you place the grow bags right on top of the rock,or do you bury the grow bags a few inches into the rocks?

The rock will also add solar mass giving you a jump on the growing season. I bought some black lava rock to add to my kiddie pool setup. However, I didn't add it because I have seen conflicting information on whether the black lava rock is toxic. I also considered using sand as well.

Could i use perlite instead of rocks?

what about mildew in stagnant water?

What fertilizer did u use for ur corn

I'm very crafty and a sewing enthusiast I was going to sew my own grow bags from burlap this year. I've read that the color red helps tomato fruits to develope and ripen quicker. Then the idea of RED burlap grow bags struck. Do you or any of your followers have any experience with using the color red and tomato production?

how often do you water them??