Vegetable Container Gardening
Thursday July 9, 2009
Hot Peppers
Photo © Kerry Michaels
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Hi – I’m growing lettuce and tomatoes. I also have an herb garden in a container. It’s my first try at gardening and I’m so surprised that everything is still alive and I’m actually eating what I’ve grown!
Bravo! It still amazes me when I eat what I’ve grown.
Are there any veggies you can’t grow in containers?
As far as I know, you can grow any vegetable in a container. That said, for some veggies, you would need a really big container. Growing corn or watermelons can be done, and people do, but that is high degree of difficulty container gardening.
It also depends on your definition of a container garden. I’ve been tempted to call a raised bed a container garden.
I have about 20 heirloom and/or open pollinated tomatoe plants,15 hot peppers,3 types of basil,dill,tarragon,winter savory,lettuce,2 types of cucumbers, butternut/zucchini squash, sunflowers,Salpiglosis,zinnias,asters,stocks & marigolds all in various size containers. (Also some hybrid toms that were GIVEN to me.) When my plants were ready to put out but it was too cool I cut the bottom off of 2 gal plastic juice jugs and used them for mini hot houses until weather warmed up. Then I turned them over and strung them up and crammed a mater plant in them. They hang upside down and all is growing well.
Thanks for posting. Sounds fantsastic. Do you have pictures? Would love to see your containers.