Very nice! I've been doing a bucket garden off and on for a while now an the biggest thing is you need to give the roots room to grow. If you put it in too small of a container, you can run into issues. They also need a lot more water because the water in the container dries out and drains away quickly. I wish you the best of luck!
Thanks for the advice Bozz. I think I'm going to mulch the containers with straw or grass clippings to help reduce water loss. Should help with evaporation as well as holding some water that will leech in to the compost when it gets dry.
Sounds like a solid plan! I use 5 gallon buckets, but I fully cut the bottom out. Then I fill it with topsoil. If you don't have many flowers around I would also plant some of those to bring in the pollinators. I had to hand pollinate my zucchini plants one year with a paintbrush.
Those are 8 gallon. Yeah thankfully we have some heavy flowering bushes on the borders but I've started off some marigolds and nasturtiums in the house already that I'm going to use for interplanting. I've not tried zucchini yet, do you do them in a greenhouse?
No, I just let them grow out in my small raised bed. If you do it right you should have more than you need all summer with just a few plants.