I'm thinking of trying this out for my vegetable garden this year. I want agarden that will conserve water.
http://www.alaskagrowbuckets.com/alaska-grow-bucket-guide/
Have you guys tried this out?
I have a number of buckets in my back yard, and grown veges in them. I just transplanted a volunteer squash seedling to one a few days ago. I have often planted squash, basil, cilantro in buckets or large planting containers.
One of my buckets is a largish tub and it's not easy to more around, especially when good and watered. I had it on a platform with casters and could pull it around the patio, but that finally rotted this year. I'm thinking of making another castered platform for it. I have a smaller tub that's easier to pull from place to place (for sun access and to get it out of the way, depending).
I have a great book on tomato culture in which the guy gives detailed instructions on growing them in containers. You can buy containers or construct your own. He made boxes, basically cubes with about 2' dimensions. He filled these with soils he designed, peat moss, compost, some dirt, some fertilizers, planted 4 seedlings/box. He would water them daily with about 4 gallons of water. Once a week, after the plants were sufficiently along, he'd apply fertilizer dissolved in a gallon of water (commercial fertilizer). He staked these with 4 stakes and grew over 100 lb tomatoes/year in them. You can do this with nothing more than a balcony for space. He had two ways of doing this: One was to have to box independent, the other was to have it embedded in the ground, with no bottom. The sides of the box keep water and nutrients in, keep roots of other plants out. The book is entitled "Tomatoes, the multiplant method," IIRC. I used to use this method of growing tomatoes, did so for a number of years (box in the ground), but now grow them in a trench ~2' x ~10' long, that's surrounded by concrete on all sides. However, what I'm doing is not all that different (I use a lot of compost, stake very high, and don't use a lot of water), and have great success every year.
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