Container gardening???

**mombottoo** · 03-07-2008, 04:31 PM

As I have noted I am actually more of a flower gardner & a novice one at that, but I do plant tomatoes in pots on my deck. What other types of veggies are easy to plant in containers & have them be viable?

**Garden4u** · 03-07-2008, 07:10 PM

One year I did a cucumber bush in a large container. I made sure is was by the deck railing so it could grab hold of it. Try that out.

**Ceashels** · 03-07-2008, 09:01 PM

I love doing spinach and leaf lettuce in window boxes. I plant a row of each in each box and harves when the leaves are 3-4 inches long. It is really nice to go onto the porch and "pick" my salad.

Grape tomatoes do very well.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/e...container.html This site has a lot of information about soil and
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8105.html has information on pot size for the vegetable you want to grow.

**HisDaisy** · 03-07-2008, 11:33 PM

Last year, I planted tomatoes, bush beans, cucumbers, and peppers in pots and they all turned out great. This year I am going to add bush peas and possibly lettuce. I would like to try broccoli, but I am not sure it would work.

**imforpeace** · 03-08-2008, 09:23 AM

One year, I did all of my gardening in pots since I was was redoing my garden. One thing I learned is that containers do not hold water as long as plants in the ground. You have to water more often! {almost lost some plants!}