I planted the 20 five gallon buckets today (Monday April 15). All the time while having the weather on listening to perfect weather conditions for growing tomato and pepper plants... Being that it is now midnight Tuesday April 16th - the forecast has changed to an enhanced level 3 thunderstorm day Wednesday the 17th. With golf ball sized hail and tornadoes and...
That gives me a day to get protection ready. I do have some cages that I used for pepper plants in years past in the in-ground garden. I can Clorox those cages and alter them to fit inside the 5 gallon buckets with cloth covers to protect the newly planted plants. The buckets wont blow over as they have stakes driven down around them. If a tornado happens, who cares about the plants.
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