Monday, January 30, 2012

Expand your vegetable garden with containers


When the vegetable garden’s beds, as outlined on the coming season’s planting plan, are all spoken for and you wish there was just a little more space for a pepper plant or two or a small patch of that new lettuce variety, think pots. Vegetables in pots are a moveable feast. The pot that this year will grow lettuce in a shady corner of the perennial bed was used last summer to grow basil on the sunny porch steps.

Almost any container will work, provided it has drainage holes in the bottom and suitable capacity. Use the following list to determine the container size needed for various vegetables.

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