Smart Pots are fabric raised beds & containers that outperform standard containers. The sides allow air to come in, improving airflow, water drainage, and heat release properties. Simply unfold, fill with potting soil, and you’re ready to grow!
We were highly doubtful of all the benefits before we started using them ourselves and testing them in our backyard! They have outperformed our plants in pots as well as plants in our traditional raised beds! We’re a strong believer and use these as our primary growing spaces now in our backyard! Not only are they super easy to setup, but we can move them around when the weather is bad or we simply want to rearrange the garden.
You can plant pretty much anything in these beds including tomatoes, peppers, greens, brassicas, and herbs! We even grow trees like lemons and limes in them!
Smart Pots are available in all shapes and sizes and even some in different colors as well! See below how we use all the different sizes in our garden, and shop directly from our new online store!
3 gallon Smart Pots work really well for small indoor or outdoor plants and are easily moveable! We’ve also used these as temporary home for plants we plan to move into larger containers.
Great for indoor plants, flowers, greens like lettuce, kale, and spinach or herbs like basil, oregano, thyme, and chives!
20 gallon Smart Pots are perfect for larger plants or a combination of smaller plants!
We love growing potatoes in these and them dumping them out in for our kids to rummage through when we harvest!
If you plan on moving these, there are containers with handles that help transport these around your garden!
Great for tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon, pumpkin, sweet potato & more!
The 25 gallon Smart Pot is perfect for larger plants and even trees!Â
Although these pots are quite large, they can still be moved indoors! We keep our citrus trees in these and move them indoors for the winter.
Great for tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, watermelon, cucumber, and many other foods!
The Big Bag Bed Mini is 15 Gallons (24″ x 8″) and gives you 3.1 square feet of growing space. It’s a great option for a patio or deck!
We love filling these with a handful of different herbs for cooking and having it right outside our back door!
Comes in purple and black!
The Big Bag Bed Jr is 50 Gallons (36″ x 12″) and gives you 7.1 square feet of growing space. It’s a great option for a patio or deck!
Universal bed great for planting virtually anything!
Comes in purple and black and you can fit a lot of plants in here!
The Big Bag Bed is 100 Gallons (50″ x 12″) and gives you 13.5 square feet of growing space! It’s a great way to get started and will produce a lot of food!
Universal bed great for planting virtually anything!
We especially love to fill one of these with strawberries and let them take over the bed. the strawberries love the drainage and will produce a lot of tasty treats fresh from the garden!
Comes in purple and black!
The Big Long Bed comes divided up into sections to make planting easier (especially if you use square foot gardening!)!
Our favorite way to use these is placing them against a wall or fence with a trellis. We plant peas, beans, squashes, and many varieties of greens in these beds!Â
These long beds come in 6′, 8′, and 12′ in length, 16″ wide, by 16″ tall.
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Hello, I tried using the black smart pots last summer here in Oklahoma to grow tomatoes with not much luck. I wonder if they are getting too hot ? I’m thinking of moving them to the side of the house where they would get sun until about 12:30. Can you advise me on what you would do? Also I was on vacation for 3 weeks in June maybe all the rain we received effected them. Thanks for your help.
Hey Kevin! We move ours to the east side of the house so they get shade in the afternoon in the summer. You can also try putting them inside of a kiddie pool and adding a few inches of water on the hot days. Be careful not to overwater and to give the plants time to dry out, or else you’ll have issues with mold and root rot. Here’s a post that talks about other things we’ve learned about tomatoes!
https://www.seedtospoon.net/tomatoes-mistakes-lessons-learned/
Dale
Hey Kevin what size were you using? Average temperature and yes a 3 week onslaught of rain will have a big effect on tomatoes they hate soggy feet lol. I had all of my pots up on old pallet boards, this way any unexpected rain allows the water to drain right though and not sit in the water.
@Kevin – Joe has a great question as well with the size. Although we’ve had success growing in 5 gallon, it’s much easier in 15 gallon and above because you’ve got more room for error! That’s a great idea with the pallet boards. It seems like we’re always either fighting too much water or too little here in Oklahoma!
Dale
Hi! I’m also wondering about what size I should buy. I ordered three different highbush blueberry varieties, and trying to figure out if I should buy three 15 or 20 gallon pots. Thanks for any suggestions!!