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47-Vegetable Container Gardening
from:There is nothing like the fresh taste of home grown vegetables or the satisfaction you get from growing them yourself. Many people who live in apartments or condos give up on the idea of having a vegetable garden. Others decide that it would take up too much time. Growing your own produce doesn’t have to take up a lot of space or time if you use the vegetable container gardening method. The containers fit easily on a deck or patio and due to the smaller size and easy accessibility these vegetables gardens don’t take a large amount of time to take care of either.
Just about any vegetable that will grow well in a traditional garden pot will do just fine with vegetable container gardening. If you feel more confident using a seed designed specifically for containers, many seed companies offer that option. Look for words like bush, space saver, dwarf, or compact. These smaller versions are designed especially to grow well in containers.
As far as which vegetables to grow you are only limited by personal tastes. Salad lovers may want to grow a variety of lettuces. Buttercrunch and Bibb lettuces do well in vegetable container gardening. Cucumbers are also a popular choice. Varieties you may want to try are Bush Pickle and Spacemaster. Toy Boy, Small Fry, and Pixie are tomato plants that grow very well in containers. They make an excellent addition to a salad themed container garden too.
Don’t forget about the vegetables that are great cooked as well. Eggplant grows well using the Bambino and Slim Jim varieties. Your Eggplant Parmesan will be the freshest ever using home grown eggplant. Squashes are an excellent choice as well. They also work so well in fall dishes. Vegetable container gardening can add a lot of choice and variety to your dinner table.
When choosing a container to use for your vegetable garden, there are some factors to keep in mind. You could use the plastic pots for sale everywhere or buckets, washtubs, and bushel baskets have been used with a lot of success. As long as you can put drainage holes in the bottom, any container will work well. You may want to avoid dark colored containers as they attract more heat and may make it too hot for your plants’ roots. Tomatoes and eggplant will grow better in larger pots, like a five gallon bucket. Most of the other vegetables will do fine in smaller containers averaging 2-3 gallon size.
Vegetable container gardening is a fun, productive hobby. You have control over what you grow and have the peace of mind of knowing your vegetables are clean and disease free.
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Diary of a window box garden: The urban grower as activist - The Guardian (blog)
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Lauderdale: Extension publication will help you start a vegetable garden - Greenville Daily Reflector
Lauderdale: Extension publication will help you start a vegetable garden Greenville Daily Reflector Limited gardening space? Consider mini-gardening and/or container vegetable gardening. All you really need is a spot that gets at least 6 hours of sunlight and a few square feet. Window boxes and movable containers can be used for growing vegetables. |
Michael R. Jeffords - AP - News & Observer
 News & Observer | Michael R. Jeffords - AP News & Observer Martha Stewart's recipe for a homemade, nonchemical pest spray is an eco-friendly way to keep slugs and aphids away from window boxes. BY JOYCE CLARK HICKS - CORRESPONDENT Martha Stewart offers an eco-friendly way to keep slugs and aphids away from ... |
It's time to start annuals from seed - Chicago Tribune
It's time to start annuals from seed Chicago Tribune Gradually increase the time spent outside until they are ready to be planted in containers, window boxes or garden beds. Cool-season annuals such as larkspur, snapdragon, English daisy, ranunculus, pansy, annual poppy, forget-me-not and edging lobelia ... |
Don't eat those mushrooms - The Salem News
Don't eat those mushrooms The Salem News They look so sad! And while you're at it, how about the empty window boxes? I want nothing leftover that's Christmas-like. I want something that will remind me that spring really is coming! I had mums in the containers until Halloween. |