Well, nothing would really prevent it from working. It should work, but, you might run into a spillage problem because the pot is curved, and the bucket is straight. Should work if it's outside, and you don't care for spillage, or if you make it have a little bit of a lip or bow to it.

It does sound like a good idea, and I would try it, but the missus would most likely have a stroke when she sees a bucket sitting in a corner somewhere, leaking or not.

LOL, i was thinking the same about the lips. Or maybe some gardening fabric would work too.

If your 5-6 gallon bucket has a matching lid, hammer it on firmly. Use a hole saw or large drill to bore holes in the lid and also 1-2 inches from the lid. The bucket lid becomes the bottom for your home made tapered berry planter.

Use at least a 2" hole saw to space your plant holes around the bucket. With bucket upside down, cut out whatever space you want for the new 'top.' You might want to add your soil mix to the first level of your plant holes, plant and add the next soil layer, etc.

If you do not have a matching lid, but have a soiled area where your up-ended bucket can be secured from running animals or humans, you would probably be able to do with less hand watering. Good luck!

You might want to try some like these:

These ones were made from stacked pots, using recycling some of our cracked plastic pots.

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This one was made by using a hole saw to cut holes in a 50 gallon plastic barrel. By the end of the summer you couldn't even seed the drum anymore.

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We also had one where we put holes in an office size plastic waste basket. I don't have a photo of that but it worked great.

The link below goes to more photos of our strawberry planters and most of the photos have some comments about how we made them.

And yes, a 5 gallon bucket would be a great way to do this.

Lynda

Here is a link that might be useful: a bunch of our strawberry planters

Wow, I'm the queen of typos today! Hopefully they don't make my last post too confusing.

Time for more coffee.

Lynda

I'm a painter, so i get loads of 5 gal. buckets. i make mine by using a whole saw. i can get 10 plants in the bucket including 3 on top. then i put them in root first slowly adding soil. and i also have a perfect fence to hang them in the sun. i just slip the bucket handle over the wood fence. i can prob. fit 20 buckets along my fence. but i just have 2 this year. you can also do this with tomatoes, pepper plants etc.