I've been reading a fair amount of garden posts lately, and some of them talk about container gardening in one way or another. I've been planting tomatoes and peppers in containers for the past few years, mostly in the greenhouse, but I haven't done much container planting with other veggies until the last couple of years. I decided to experiment with planting other crops in containers to see how they would do for me. I figure if I'm going to advocate for container gardening as an option when you don't have a place for an in-the-ground garden, I should at least have some experience with it myself. So, a few weeks ago, I started planting different kinds of veggies in various containers that I had, or scrounged.
This is what I have so far.
The short boards leaning up against the pots in the middle of the first picture are there to shade the black pots. I found out last year that if you have black pots out in the sun, it heats up the dirt in the pot, which is bad for the plants in the pot.
The white buckets have 1 yellow banana pepper plant each. The pot like thing with the camouflage color is a bag pot that was given to me, it has 2 early red potato plants in it. This is the first time I've planted potatoes in a container, so the results will be interesting. One of the smaller black pots has a pepper plant in it, the other has a pair of muskmelon plants. The 2 big brownish pots were given to me by a friend, those have yellow wax beans in them. The bean plants are small yet, they were planted late and took a long time to come up. I actually had to replant one of the pots. It rained so much in June that I had a hard time with germination with all my bean plants. I had to replant my pole beans 3 times and they still didn't all come up.
So anyway, if you don't count the plants in the greenhouse, this is my container planting endeavour. I'm going to add a couple of the pots from the greenhouse to the container area, I have carrots in a couple of pots and they don't need to be in the greenhouse.
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