Here is a great solution for small area gardening. Click the smaller pictures to view the larger ones. Click the larger ones to return here. There are descriptions below the larger pictures.

To help lighten the pinch of expensive groceries, there's a location in Florence Gardens where residents of the five parks may go to pick up bread products, sometimes potatoes and sometimes pastries.

There are other resources for seniors too. Contact the webmaster for information.

For information on how to grow trees and vegetables, visit the Pinal County Cooperative Extension Service site.

Another planter design approach comes from Gardener's Supply Company. This company actually came up with the design I thought of. Instead of having an over-flow, there's a single filling tube with a float which indicates how full the reservoir is. Check out their Pots and Planters link.

For those who want to build their own, one can take two five gallon buckets, purchase a plastic funnel from a hardware store, cut a large enough hole in the bucket that will be placed inside the other one, leaving enough to just catch the widest part of the funnel and drill multiple small holes in the bottom of the inner bucket. Put it all together (with a filler tube and adding another smaller tube that will house a float) and then fill the inner bucket with potting mix wetting it down as you go. The funnel acts as a wick and draws the water in the reservoir, upward. No doubt, the best way to fertilize this method is with liquid fertilizer such as Miracle Grow. There is a sketch and instructions for this method in the February / March 2008 Mother Earth News magazine.

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