Container Gardening #1: "Digging" Container Gardening

your enthusiasm is catching—maybe I will try another planter this year. I actually had one that survived the entire season last year!! Woo hoo.

(and thanks for writing this little article for our Stickies listing).

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

I have used container gardening for years. On my deck we grow some veggies and herbs, handy to the kitchen and away from the @#$% squirrels. Also I use them for showing off some plants at the front of the house, and on the lower patio. We still use the gardens on the ground though.

Thanks for all your ideas, Brad.

-- jroot

Thanks for asking, MsDebbie!!

Jroot, you must be a jack of all trades (gardens)

-- Brad, http://www.container-gardening-for-you.com

Like JRoot…....................I’ve been doing both for years. Wouldnt have it any other way.

-- Central northish Ontario

All my prtojects have been done in containers. If taken proper care container garden can be rewarding.
Sharad

-- Bagwan-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein

We are building a deck this Spring, and i plan on adding lots of pots too.

-- Gardening is Great Therapy!!.....Georgian Bay area....zone 5b

Yep containers are great for a lot of places.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

This year, my wife has placed limitations on me. Not so many containers on the deck. She still wants her herbs there, and I think I might add some beats and chard because the foliage is so pretty. Things may change though when I get my seeds from http://ufseeds.com/. I have placed my order, and there are several veggies there. Won’t she be surprised ! LOL

-- jroot

I have tried ‘container’ gardening with different things, ie green onions, radishes and herbs, just to have them early and handy to the kitchen door. Two years ago I tried a tomato plant in a large container on my front deck, so it would receive the maximum sun. I got tomatoes off it but I wouldn’t call it a great success. I would like to find a cucumber that would grow bush-like instead of vining. Does anyone know of such a plant?

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

There are bush varieties of cucumber plants. The ones I’ve heard of only produce fruit for about a month. So you would almost need to plant containers of them at different times so you would have cucumbers all summer.

I think the name of one of them is called Spacemaster…or something like that.

Good Luck,
Brad

-- Brad, http://www.container-gardening-for-you.com

I don’t know of any bush variety of cukes, but I did successfully grow them on a trellis one year. Just make sure you can either reach THROUGH the trellis, or get behind it to harvest the darned things!

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.