Container Vegetable Gardening

[Fla Gal]

There's a small chart for what veggie, what sized container and recommended varieties.

Larry Bass
Extension Horticultural Specialist
Department of Horticultural Science
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
North Carolina State University

Many people who live in an apartment, condominium, or mobile home do not grow a vegetable garden because space is not available for a garden plot. Lack of yard space is no excuse for not gardening, since many kinds of vegetables can be readily grown in containers. In addition to providing five hours or more of full sun, attention must be given to choosing the proper container, using a good soil mix, planting and spacing requirements, fertilizing, watering, and variety selection.

www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8105.html

[gayla]

thank you I have several friends I will pass this one to

[Fla Gal]

Gayla, you're welcome! I wish I'd had this information when I was an apartment, rental dweller.

I tried planting a garden in two trailer parks I'd lived in (in my travel trailer) before getting a rental house with a postage stamp sized yard.

At the house I was able to grow some veggies in containers. I loved walking out there into the yard on a few workday evenings and for dinner I had me a veggie leaf wrap. I started with a horseradish leaf, threw in some swiss chard, chives, cilantro and parsley. I ate three huge leaf wraps for diner one day. It is so..... good!

[gayla]

we have a huge garden but there are some friends living in small house that this will work for ..
we have tried hay bale planting for them but it was too wet for that .

[Granny Smith]

Good information for those of us considering greenhouse growing in the winter, too. Thank you for posting this!