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by badplanter on October 17, 2006 09:46 AM
It is at all possible to keep a strawberry plant (of any type) in a coffee can? One of the larger ones? Or any other type of small root veggies?

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by Deborah L. on October 17, 2006 12:18 PM
Of course ! And those little round carrots, the mini-peas, and radishes (I'm a great one to be talking about radishes....)
Just make sure to make drainage holes with a can opener.
I'm not sure about this, but I read somewhere that if the can rusts, the rust will put iron into the soil.

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by badplanter on October 18, 2006 09:57 AM
So, does that mean that the rust is good? If so, i'll have some happy veggies! [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin]

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by Deborah L. on October 18, 2006 10:13 AM
The rust is good IF it really does put iron into the soil.
I had a gardenia once that seemed to do better after I poked pieces of a rusty old table into the soil around it.

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by sibyl on October 18, 2006 11:39 AM
ive heard of people putting rusty old nails in the ground around a plant,

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