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5 Brilliant Ideas To Use A 500g Tub In Your Garden

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5 Brilliant Ideas To Use A 500g Tub In Your Garden

There are hundreds of different ways to make use of a 500g tub. So, whether you buy them new, or, reuse, recycle or repurpose ones that were used as containers for something that you have, they can be very useful things to have around.

To inspire you to look into the utility of your 500g tub, here are brilliant uses that you might like to try:

  • For Growing Tomatoes Upside Down: This space-saving idea involves cutting a hole in the base of the bucket and hanging it up on a fence, wall, or from the crop bars in a greenhouse or polytunnel. Filling your bucket with growing medium, you can then place the tomato plants so they grow out from the base pointing downwards rather than up.
  •  5 Gallon Tub Hanging Planter: The handle on a 500g tub also makes it ideal for use as an alternative to a hanging basket. By planting some trailing plants around the rim of your bucket, you can cover the bucket itself and create something that looks nice from something that might otherwise have been thrown away.
  •  Bucket Windowsill Garden: 500g tub are ideal for those who want to grow food indoors on the windowsills. Since they are water resistant, they will catch all the drips, and as long as you do not water them excessively, herbs, salad leaves, and other plants can do great in them.
  • To Make a Mini Hydroponic Garden: With a 500g tub, you could also consider growing plants without any compost or soil at all. Hydroponics is growing plants in water and a 5-gallon bucket hydroponic system is the cheapest and easiest way to get started with this growing system.
  • Make Wicking Grow Buckets for a Greenhouse: In a greenhouse system, you could grow tomatoes and many other plants in 5-gallon buckets that have been plumbed into a system of irrigation. This can be fed with rainwater accumulated from the top of the structure.
  • Make a Strawberry Tower Vertical Garden: Five-gallon buckets can not only be used joined up side by side in a greenhouse or elsewhere in your garden but they can also be stacked vertically to spread up your growing area. Saw the bottoms off two 5 gallon buckets and then drill two-inch holes at regular intervals around the edges of both the buckets
  • Contain Spreading Plants in Beds or Borders: Five-gallon tubs can also be buried almost completely in the soil of a garden bed to contain the roots and prevent the spread of a quick, fast-growing spreading plant that might otherwise take over the whole area. 
  • 5 Gallon Bucket Wormer: This is a very simple vermiculture system and one which can be perfect for the small garden or inside smaller homes Extra 5-gallon buckets with holes drilled in the bottom can be placed at the top of your bucket wormer. 


When you use your imagination, you will find that there are almost endless ways to make use of a 500g tub in your home and garden.


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