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Container gardens include tiny flowerpots to huge containers too big to move around. They can be indoors, on a balcony, in a greenhouse, or outside. You can grow vegetables (my emphasis), flowers, herbs, fruit… just about anything. Though your plants may need watering more frequently than plants growing in the earth, they do need less water overall. If you get or make self-watering planters, you’ll have more time between waterings. I’m also a big fan of a kind of container called the Smart Pot.

It’s such a thrill to grow this way! I’m making it my main way of gardening now, though I do also work out in our yard.

Thrilled! Eating Greens from Our Container Garden

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I planted everything in our greenhouse four to six weeks ago and already there is a lot to see. (This is the second in a series on container gardens… the first one is here.) We are eating arugula and bok choy with small bits of cilantro, basil, and parsley. Here are some pictures of the container gardening. First, the larger leaves are bok choy, which we have been eating in salads for a couple of weeks now. Behind it is cilantro, which looks a bit scraggly because yesterday I thinned it quite a lot when I was collecting greens for our usual lunch, … Continue reading →

Six Container Gardening Ideas for Vegetables

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I’ve recently been going wild planting veggies in containers in our greenhouse, and here I’ll be sharing with you six container gardening ideas for vegetables. Container gardening can be done anywhere… on porches and patios, on windowsills, and around the yard. Indoors, outdoors, and in greenhouses. Advantages over larger gardens? Less work, easier to handle! Fewer if any weeds, and  way less water, which is something ever more important in the desert climate I live in. In any climate, really. So here are six ideas: ~1~ Read This Book on Container Gardening The book that got me started is . It had so many great … Continue reading →