About Us
Transforming gardening for greater sustainability, better health and more fun - all in a 2 foot circle.
Are you currently living in a location where you WANT to grow your own food, but just don't have a YARD or SPACE?
You are not Alone.
Many are finding housing prices so incredibly high right now they can't afford to buy a new home. Those that can are finding homes built on small tracts of ground, leaving no room to grow a traditional garden. What to do?
Grow in a Container!
Imagine the pleasure of eating your own tomatoes, spinach, carrots, lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, onions, peppers. All can be grown in containers and can be grown together .... all in less than a 2 foot circle!
This is perfect for those who worry about pesticide residues that might be on the food they are getting from produce purchased at the grocery store ... or want to cut down the number of trips made to the store ... or just want to feel more in control of what they are eating. No matter the reason, it IS possible to grow all of the vegetables mentioned above (and more) in the same 21" container. I know because I, and others like me, have done it.
I teach How.
Through the book, "Container Gardening in 3D" and in three, 30-minute training modules of instruction, I share ideas that will allow others to learn how to get maximum yield with minimal effort by going UP, Down, and Over. As an example, I have gotten the following yield out of one 21" container:
30-40 carrots
40-50 radishes
2-3 cuttings of romaine lettuce off 7-10 plants
2-3 cuttings of spinach off 7-10 plants
10-15 cucumbers
30-40 lbs. of tomatoes
40-60 tomatillos
and based upon the configeration of the plantings, this is also possible:
20-30 peppers of various varieties
A bazillion cherry tomatoes
My goal is to teach everyone who is interested in how to get the same volume of produce and the enjoyment and mental benefits that gardening can bring to the table.
So who needs a yard? Come "Build YOUR yield without the Field" by growing in a container!
My Story
Hey there. My name is Mathew Jentzsch. I grew up on a small farm. There were cows to milk, irrigation pipes to move, and fruit to harvest. With a family of 12 to feed came a big garden which entailed the compulsory weeding, watering, weeding, planting, and oh, did I mention weeding?
My dad spent many hours tilling the ground with his big Troy Built walk-behind rototiller, while my siblings and I spent hours hauling manure and straw mix to our garden plot. Somewhere along the line dad decided to become an organic gardener and before I knew it we were hauling every free organic product he could find to the garden space. In my youth, I always thought the garden was out of necessity, but as I got older I realized my dad just loved to garden. He was always proud of that first ear of corn or eating tomatoes by the fourth of July.
I did not share my dad's enthusiasm for gardening at the time. To me it meant long hours on my knees either weeding or planting or harvesting. It just meant a lot of manual labor. But when I finally got the chance to have my own gardening plot, what do you think I did? Why the same techniques I saw my father do: till the ground, make long narrow rows, space out the plants, and water like crazy. I experienced some success, but also many failures. (Who knew there were so many different weed varieties on the earth?)
One year, because of extensive time spent at work, the garden wasn’t planted (It did, however, grow a beautiful crop of weeds that I mowed once in a while just to keep under control). I had some potting soil sitting around and decided to put cram some veggies into a container at the last minute. To my surprise and delight, the containers started producing. A lot! The impressive yield made me wonder what I was doing sweating over the bigger garden when I could grow great vegetables so much easier in a container. I had essentially no weeding time and all I had to do was make sure they were properly watered and fertilized. I decided to expand the experiment. The following year I planted several larger containers and involved other family members. It worked. Since then, I have been trying different ideas, mixing and matching different veggies and varying start times. This has been going on for over 10 years now and I am still suprised just how much volume of produce I can get out of such a small space. This is where Containicus was born. My hope is that teaching this to the world will allow others to experience the same joy and production that I have.
Solar Cap
Harness the Energy of the Sun!
Made from UV inhibited greenhouse film, it was created so container gardening could start 2-3 months earlier so you can enjoy radishes and other cool season plants before most gardeners are even thinking about going outside! It protects plants from snow, hail, high winds and light freezes. It will fit any 21" container and its tight weave will not tear.