If you have old buckets, don’t throw them, let’s save and transform them into mini gardens that can grow your favorite vegetables. In the post today, we want to share 10 gardening ideas with buckets that you can make easily at home. Are you ready to spend your time checking them with us?

Although the size of the bucket is limited, you can totally grow some types of vegetables such as potatoes, tomatoes, ginger, herb, and flower, these plants are so easy to grow and take care of when grown in the bucket.

Whether your space is lacking or larger, they are suitable for all. So, let’s save them and try to grow some, you will have a bountiful harvest the next time. Start now!

#1 Growing Mushroom Farm in a Bucket

Growing mushrooms can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re looking for a simple, low-cost way to grow mushrooms at home, the bucket method is a great choice.

It doesn’t require any special skills or equipment, and it produces high yields of mushrooms. Growing in a five-gallon bucket is also a great way to get even more use out of your Oyster Mushroom Grow Kit!

After you’ve harvested a couple of rounds of mushrooms from your block, the fun doesn’t have to end. You can break the block up into small pieces and use it as a spawn to continue growing.

Whether you’re using an old mushroom block or you have another source of mushroom spawn, the bucket method is a great way to grow a lot of mushrooms in very little space.

#2 The 5 Gallon Buckets Wrapped in Burlap

I love container gardening for ease and accessibility, but the prices for big planters can be painful- especially when you plant as much each spring as I do!

Recently, I decided to make my own budget-friendly planters using a few yards of burlap and a few 5-gallon buckets.

#3 Potato Bucket Gardening Idea

Potatoes, taters, or spuds — whatever you call them — there’s never been a better time to grow them. Potatoes are widely available in grocery stores and reasonably priced, but there’s something magical about growing them at home.

First, the plants themselves are beautiful. They have green serrated leaves, purple flowers, and a bushy, rounded form.

And, harvesting potatoes is a little like going on a treasure hunt. Pop a seed potato in the soil, wait a few weeks, and voila—tucked away from view is a bounteous harvest just waiting to be found.

Another reason to grow potatoes is for variety. A generation ago, gardeners contented themselves with growing two types of potatoes – red potatoes and russets.

Today, you can try blue, gold or fingerling potatoes. These potatoes command a premium price at the grocery store and are marketed as “gourmet.”

However, they take no more work in the garden than regular old russets, and you can find the seed potatoes at garden centers and feed stores for a song.

Probably the main reason most people don’t grow potatoes is because of a lack of space. Like tomatoes, potatoes do take up more space in the garden than, say, lettuce or carrots.

Their per-plant yield is high, though. If you’ve avoided growing potatoes because you don’t have the room, take heart.

Potatoes can be grown in containers with great success. Below we’ve corralled a few of our favorite ideas for growing spuds.

#4 Cute DIY Painted Bucket for Growing Plants

I’m finally getting around to gardening this year. A few strawberries popped up in our raised bed again, and we still have herbs. But I bought two new tomato plants and a pepper plant. This will be our third year growing tomatoes, and every year I learn something new.

I like to grow our tomatoes and peppers in containers so I can move them around to adjust sunlight, etc. And while I could have gone out and purchased new planters for this project, I prefer to upcycle things when possible (and save a few dollars!)

We had a set of 5, 5-gallon buckets stacked in the corner of the garage. Which piqued my interest. I managed to get 3 to try out my planter experiment and I’m thrilled with how they turned out!