Welcome to Hobby Gardening
Gardening Container Supply Article
This is a selection made from among articles on Gardening Container Supply. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for future reading, click here.
Vegetable Container Gardening
from:There is nothing like the fresh taste of home grown vegetables or the satisfaction you get from growing them yourself. Many people who live in apartments or condos give up on the idea of having a vegetable garden. Others decide that it would take up too much time.
Growing your own produce doesn't have to take up a lot of space or time if you use the vegetable container gardening method. The containers fit easily on a deck or patio and due to the smaller size and easy accessibility these vegetables gardens don't take a large amount of time to take care of either.
Just about any vegetable that will grow well in a traditional garden pot will do just fine with vegetable container gardening. If you feel more confident using a seed designed specifically for containers, many seed companies offer that option. Look for words like bush, space saver, dwarf, or compact. These smaller versions are designed especially to grow well in containers.
As far as which vegetables to grow you are only limited by personal tastes. Salad lovers may want to grow a variety of lettuces. Buttercrunch and Bibb lettuces do well in vegetable container gardening. Cucumbers are also a popular choice. Varieties you may want to try are Bush Pickle and Spacemaster. Toy Boy, Small Fry, and Pixie are tomato plants that grow very well in containers. They make an excellent addition to a salad themed container garden too.
Don't forget about the vegetables that are great cooked as well. Eggplant grows well using the Bambino and Slim Jim varieties. Your Eggplant Parmesan will be the freshest ever using home grown eggplant. Squashes are an excellent choice as well. They also work so well in fall dishes. Vegetable container gardening can add a lot of choice and variety to your dinner table.
When choosing a container to use for your vegetable garden, there are some factors to keep in mind. You could use the plastic pots for sale everywhere or buckets, washtubs, and bushel baskets have been used with a lot of success. As long as you can put drainage holes in the bottom, any container will work well. You may want to avoid dark colored containers as they attract more heat and may make it too hot for your plants' roots.
Tomatoes and eggplant will grow better in larger pots, like a five gallon bucket. Most of the other vegetables will do fine in smaller containers averaging 2-3 gallon size.
Vegetable container gardening is a fun, productive hobby. You have control over what you grow and have the peace of mind of knowing your vegetables are clean and disease free.
Container-Gardening Online News
Powerful quake kills at least 6 in N. Italy - CBS News
 The Hindu | Powerful quake kills at least 6 in N. Italy CBS News (AP) SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy - One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least six people, toppled buildings and sent residents running into ... At least 7 dead after quake rocks northern Italy 6-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy, at least six dead Six dead as earthquake hits northern Italy |
Nato leaders confront flagging Afghan war - Hindustan Times
 Hindustan Times | Nato leaders confront flagging Afghan war Hindustan Times AP Afghan youth play football in the evening in the city of Herat. AFP/Aref Karimi It was what President Barack Obama called a "war of necessity," a conflict thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks. As Nato's mission winds down in Afghanistan nearly 11 ... Afghan attack kills two NATO soldiers, two children NATO says 2 service members killed 2 NATO Service Members Killed in Afghanistan |
NATO won't pay $5000 per truck to Pakistan: Panetta - New York Daily News
 CTV.ca | NATO won't pay $5000 per truck to Pakistan: Panetta New York Daily News Washington, May 20 — US Defence Secretary leon Panetta has ruled out paying Pakistan $5000 for each truck carrying supplies via its territory for NATO troops in Afghanistan. In an interview to the los Angeles Times before his arrival in Chicago where a ... NATO protesters gather for Chicago rally Nato summit to discuss withdrawal from Afghanistan World leaders set to tackle Afghanistan's future |
Chinese human rights activist Chen arrives in US - CNN
 Telegraph.co.uk | Chinese human rights activist Chen arrives in US CNN Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng arrived Saturday evening in the United States, bringing an end to a diplomatic firestorm that erupted after he escaped from house arrest and took to YouTube to complain about abuse he said his family ... Chen Guangcheng arrives in New York Chinese activist renews call to fight injustice Chinese activist who fled house arrest heads to US |