When he fills his orange tubs, he puts five or six inches of mulch in the bottom. Then he puts a weed barrier. Then he puts Miracle Grow garden soil. From the looks of his containers, he puts enough Miracle Grow so that the soil line comes within a couple of inches of the rim.
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| mulch |
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| potting soil |
When he disassembles his tubs in the fall, he doesn't reuse his mulch for tomatoes. He puts it around other plants in his yard.
The Miracle grow is another story. He screens it using chicken wire to get rid of any tomato roots. These roots can cause diseases harmful to his next tomato crop, he says. When he empties the soil, he puts it in a pile in the backyard awaiting spring.
Before next spring he will buy a couple of bags of small to medium mulch for the bottom layer, put a new layer of weed barrier, add his recycled Miracle Grow and top off his tubs with new Miracle Grow garden soil.
Each fall, the Tomato Guy does as many gardening chores as possible as he is very busy in the spring.
To be continued...
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