Vegetable gardening containers are your answer if you live in an apartment, condo or have a shady backyard. Roof-top, windowsill, patio or just a doorstep are all great placed to grow vegetables in containers. You can often even harvest all year round!
Just about anything you can grow in a garden bed can be grown in a container. Your container choices can be varied, try regular gardening pots, or a wheelbarrow, metal containers, cement blocks, kitchen pots, bowls - let your imagine and creativity run wild to create your perfect garden.
So what vegetables grow best in containers? Check out my list on container candidates.
For a successful container garden you will need to consider
the following:
Succession planting is important to consider and can be easy to do in containers. This means planting a veggies every few weeks so you can be eating fresh veggies throughout the whole season.
For example start some transplants of lettuce, spinach in one container and seeds in another. This way you will be eating both for several weeks. Once the first plants are done, put in some beans or tomatoes into the same container. Just make sure you add some new soil and fertilizer to the containner.
There is always room for another container of another veggies.
Herbs are great in containers as well. Check out great recipes at www.recipesbytheeverydaygourmet.com/herbs-spices.html
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