This Old Bag Update

  April  2018 Back at the start of this blog in 2018 I wrote about a raised bed solution from SmartPots . The blog post is here:  https://ww...

 

April  2018

Back at the start of this blog in 2018 I wrote about a raised bed solution from SmartPots. The blog post is here: https://www.townhousegardening.com/2018/05/smartpots-raised-bed-solution.html

Fall 2018

The big bag survived raccoons foraging for grubs in 2020.

The big bag has been a platform for an experiment with critter netting in 2021. In the picture below it is filled with sugar snap peas.

By July the big bag was producing tomatoes.

The bag has performed beyond my expectations. It is now in its fifth year of continuous use.

Stained and discolored by the hard water, but otherwise in great shape. No tears or rips. It works as advertised. This large 50 inch bag and its smaller siblings have produced crop after crop in a very small space. The only SmartPot that is no longer in service was used to grow a bare root Thompson Seedless Grape. Grape roots, like the vines themselves are tough and woody and grew right through the fabric of the small fabric pot. 

I would highly recommend a SmartPot for your raised garden bed.