Quote Originally Posted by INTIMIDATOR View Post
When I took them down last weekend, I still had 150-some Green tomatoes...my entire family shows up to get them for fried green 'maters.
I just put the green ones in the house and over time they ripen!

When you build the PVC cages just put the extra work in the first time...I pvc glued all the joints before I screwed them in, and wired the ladders together to keep everything square and level...once you get going it is pretty easy. With painting them and storing them inside during the Winter, they SHOULD last my lifetime.

The best thing about container gardening, you can control everything...except the sun! The root system will grow in cooler temps because the barrels heat up with UV rays...as long as the roots are warm and vibrant the plant will stay healthy. You can control water, food, and if the barrels are placed on concrete or away from the other (more Hearty) garden stuff, you have better control of bugs or disease also!
I do the same with all my SUNFLOWERS (seeds for Dale and I), herbs, cucs, certain peppers, mescaline salad, and leafy lettuce....I have a slow drip irrigation set-up (with rain Barrels) incase we ever leave for vacation! Springfield MASTER GARDENERS sold AWESOME rain barrels for "next to nothing" for ECO purposes!
My wife puts green mators in paper sacks and puts them in the basement, that works too CJ Polecat