Container Gardening for beginners…
Do you want to grow your own vegetables but don’t want to dig up your yard, have bad soil, or only have a small space to work with? Container gardening might be the answer for you. Container gardening vegetables is easy for beginners and has many benefits for the well seasoned gardener. I share with you tips on proper container selection, soil requirements, watering and much more. These tips and tricks will get your container vegetable garden growing in no time.
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8 Comments
Check and check I’m both a bigger and have very limited space lol. Thank you
Thank you!! I am gardening in ground, containers, and raised beds this year for the first time! Very good info!!
I'm doing a container garden this year
thank you for your video it was very helpful
Thank you for throwing this up. I'm a big advocate of community activism. Container gardening is a wonderful and fun way for urban comunititys to help aliveate food insecurity and if you get with your neighbors everyone can grow different vedgies, berries, herbs and spices to share with each other.
You can hang vines the rope or wire hanger makes a great trellis. Almost all of us can contribute and benifet from getting some dirt under our finger nails.
Can't wait to get some veggies going on the deck. 😊
Great info.!
Because my yard is organic, I've been using grass clippings as mulch in pots and beds. It really helps with weeds too.
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Thank you for bringing this up!
One way of having a container garden for herbs etc is (in Europe) the so-called ‘one square meter’ garden. Basically it’s a shallow ‘box’ that measures 1 metre by 1 metre and is around 50 cms high. Sit it on tiles or concrete, if needed on a series of moisture-resistant planks, a wooden pallet or a structure of loose bricks. Line it with anti-rooting webbing, cover the bottom with a shallow layer of drainage material like hydroculture pellets, then fill with potting soil mix and plant your mini-garden with herbs and a few companion plants like marigolds. This type of mini-garden is excellent for plants that don’t need deep soil and is wonderful to install closest to the kitchen and to give you easy access to your herbs without having to go all the way to the back of your garden.
Some times burying a pot or container right into the soil is a good way to contain invasive plants. Where I live, mint, tarragon and chives tend to take over and strangle everything close by… and invade the rest of the garden. Burying a container will help with temperature control and will unobtrusively hide the fact that your plant is effectively being kept from taking over the entire plot without you having to weed, prune etc every day. Root propagation becomes a non-issue and all you need to do is snip off any flowers that are in danger of going to seed.
A fun way of teaching kids can be a ‘container garden’ made out of a simple bag of soil. Scoop out some of the soil, plant some seed potatoes in the bag, perforate the sides of the bag with a few holes for drainage and watch the potato plant grow… a few months later, harvest your potatoes… it might not be pretty but it’s effective and doesn’t cost any more than the bag of soil and a few seed potatoes. Even a ‘forgotten’ potto that has started to sprout will work.
With a bit of creativity container planting can provide a lot of gardening joy.
Outside of the growing season, containers can also help reducing food waste. My grandmother taught me the value of ‘burying’ root vegetables and even green veggies like celery stalks and leeks. Either bury them in loose soil or fill a container with clean sawdust. Leve this container out on your balcony, on your deck, wherever is convenient and outside. Cover with a tarp or even a lid to keep the rain from soaking it. If you live in an area where winter can mean frost, the soil/sawdust will keep your vegetables from freezing but will also prevent them from drying out or rotting. That’s extremely useful for small households when a larger amount is cheaper but you don’t necessarily want to eat that same vegetable every day of the week. I often do this for leek, celery, carrots, potatoes (protects them from light, too), beets, parsnips, etc. Come spring or summer, the soil can be used for potting and the sawdust can go onto the compost. Although I have to admit to storing some veggies this way throughout the year! 😊