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Tenielle Jordison

I Just Discovered You Can Plant Crops Straight into a Compost Bag – It’s So Easy and Saves Space

Vegetables and flowers growing in containers on a balcony.

There truly is nothing that tastes as good as homegrown veggies, which is why I've been experimenting with growing different crops over the last year. The biggest struggle I'm facing is being limited with space, but I just stumbled across a clever solution: using compost bags as grow bags.

It's exactly what you imagine, planting directly into compost bags just as you would in a grow bag. Of course, it isn't as simple as cutting a hole in a bag of compost (like this organic compost from Amazon) and chucking some seeds in. You need to add drainage holes, set it up correctly, and choose the right plants for successful growing.

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