Container Vegetable Gardening

Do you live in a place where there is more concrete than dirt?  Do you have a small area? Like condo or apartment dwellers? Do you love your beautifully manicured yard?  Just don't have much spare time? Vegetable container gardening can help you produce your own vegetables.  Even with space, time, and soil constraints..

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a giant backyard.  Not everyone gets to live where they even have a yard at all.  Not everyone has the time for a big garden.

What is Vegetable Container Garden?

A garden that has been planted in small or large containers.

Containers generally range in size from a milk carton for herbs to a wine barrel cut in half that might hold tomatoes.

Metal containers are to be avoided.  They conduct too much heat that can hurt the plant.

Where to get containers:

Local garden center.

Milk boxes, buckets, large butter containers from the grocery.

Put a plastic bag around a box.

New gardeners may want to use what's around them first. Great idea for green folks.

Important: Even containers , especially larger ones, need drainage.

Space for container garden:

You can plant herbs in your kitchen window sill if it gets enough sun.

Or on patios and decks. A lot of apartment dwellers do this.

What you can plant in small areas.

You can easily place herbs on window sills.

Larger containers can go on patios, decks, porches.

What grows in a container:

Almost anything that will grow in a regular garden can be grown in a container.
Anything that doesn't root deeper than your container.

Vining vegetable like cucumbers can be staked.  They will readily climb a pole.

Vegetable Garden