What you can grow in a container vegetable garden is limited only by the size of the container and your imagination. How about a Summer Salad container? Plant a tomato, a cucumber and some parsley or chives all in a large (24-30") container. They grow well together and have the same water and sun requirements. By late summer they might not be very pretty, but they'll keep producing into winter. This makes a great housewarming present, too.Containers and Pots for Vegetable GardensSelecting Containers: Containers for your vegetable gardens can be almost anything: flower pots, pails, buckets, wire baskets, bushel baskets, wooden boxes, nursery flats, window planters, washtubs, strawberry pots, plastic bags, large food cans, or any number of other things.
Vegetables Plants Suitable for ContainersSeed companies realize that homeowners have less and less space to devote to vegetable gardens. Every year they come out with new vegetable plant varieties suitable for growing in small spaces and vegetable container gardens.Be on the look out for key words like: bush, compact, and space saver. Here are some vegetable plant varieties to get your vegetable container garden growing.- Cucumbers: Salad Bush Hybrid, Spacemaster, Bush Pickle- Eggplant: Bambino, Slim Jim- Green Beans: (Pole beans give a higher yield in a small footprint) Blue Lake, Kentucky Wonder, French Dwarf- Green Onions: Beltsville Bunching, Crysal Wax, Evergreen Bunching- Leaf Lettuce: Buttercrunch, Salad Bowl, Bibb- Peppers: Frigitello, Cubanelle, Sweet Banana, Apple (Hot) Red Cherry, Jalapeno, Robustini- Radishes: Cherry Belle, Scarlet Globe, (White) Icicle- Squash: Ronde de Nice, Gold Rush- Tomatoes: Patio, Pixie, Tiny Tim, Saladette, Toy Boy, Spring Giant, Tumbling Tom, Small Fry
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