Container Vegetable Gardening

No room for a vegetable garden? Then container vegetable gardening is your answer. Do you live in an apartment, condo or have a shady backyard? If you have a roof-top, windowsill, patio or just a doorstep then you can grow vegetables in containers. You can even harvest all year round!

Advantages to growing in containers:

• Take up little space.
• Need less weeding.
• They can be moved with the movement of the sun.
• The soil heats up faster so heat loving plants grow really well.
• They can be large or small, depending on your space and what you want to grow.
• Vegetables can be grown in hanging baskets.
• Fun to grow in.
• Can be decorative.

Disadvantages to growing in containers:

• Hard to leave as they usually need daily watering.
• Containers can be expensive.
• Cost of soil mixture.

So what vegetables grow best in containers? Check out my list on container candidates.

Just about anything you can grow in a garden bed you can grow in a container. For a successful container garden you will need to consider the following:

• Your Container Choices
• Container soil
• Container watering and fertizliing

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