Plants love grow bags.
This summer I was excited to get gardening again and make use of grow bags among my container gardening. Bigger pots can be expensive and somewhat hard to come by in terms of selection. Many of them are just too heavy for my lifestyle of get up and go. Most large containers you find in traditional flower nurseries are designed for flowers and less so with growing food in mind.
Made of fabric, grow bags are lightweight and pack down easily making them a good option for growing larger plants like tomatoes, watermelon or pumpkin using an 8-10 gallon or larger container. When container gardening, these fabric gardening bags make it easy to move plants if needed. I like to move my container garden around as my garden grows. They’re also inexpensive so I can afford to grow more plants.
Not Just for Cannabis Growers. Vegetables love them too.
Popular with both cannabis and vegetable growers for, grow bags are the best way to container garden.
Air Pruning Prevents Root-Bound Plants
Because grow bags are made of fabric, unlike plastic, they prevent plants from becoming root bound by air pruning your plants.
Where to Buy Grow Bags
As awesome as grow bags are many gardeners are still not aware of them which makes them somewhat hard to come by. The big home & garden centres either did not have what I was looking for or they charged way more than what I wound up paying after searching my local grow stores and nurseries. I came across two different sellers of the simple black fabric bags I was after. One is Root Pouch and the other is an unbranded wholesale bag. I was happy to pay the local shops the $6.99 ea. for the 6 bags I bought this season but most of theseare being bought online for less than half that.
I planted strawberries and zucchini in an 8 gallon bag and I planted pumpkin and watermelon in the 10 gallon bags.
All of the plants are doing really well. Both myself and my roommates are enjoying watching these beauties grow and flower around us. I am excited about expanding the amount of plants and grow bags this coming year. One of the things I like about container gardening is that because I can pick up the bagged plants, it makes it possible to gift a big plant to someone. 🙂