Starting a potted vegetable garden is not only fun, but can be a fantastic experience for all the family.
Container vegetable gardening need not be chore but an experience that you grow with.
Over time you will trial grow and appreciate many different tastes, textures and scents.
The best part is you get to eat it! Many would agree that a home grown Tomatoes tastes three times better than one purchased from the supermarket.
These were possibly picked green, then sprayed to make it ripen! Yes, it's true some fruits they induce the ripening process.
Thank goodness you don't have to.
Why? Because today you are going to learn how to create your very own Potted Vegetable Garden the healthy way! Growing Tomatoes In Pots Growing tomatoes in pots is where most people seems to start out.
The humble Tom is not only tasty but very popular on the kitchen table.
It's just so versatile! The Tomato is used in sauces, sandwiches, salads the works.
I bet your saying "Come on get on with it!" So, okay! Let's get into it! What Potting mix for Tomatoes? Well, I recommend a high quality premium mix that is full of Blood and Bone, Seaweed and yes, water-crystals! This will provide your Tomatoes with enough nutrient to get a great head-start in life.
A high quality organic mix will help flower set, repel pest and diseases and best all! PRODUCE TOP AWESOME FRUIT! Companions with Tomatoes in your potted vegetable garden The best companion for planting with your tomatoes in your vegetable container garden is the herb, Sweet Basil.
Sweet Basil helps repel pests such as the fruit fly and also creates a better flavor in the Tomatoes.
You will also find that you can pick both your Basil and Tomatoes at the same time.
Most Pasta sauces contain these main two ingredients.
Liquid Fertilize your Tomatoes! You will also want to liquid fertilize your Tomatoes at least once a week.
The key is start off with a weak solution that looks like watered down tea.
Then as the plant matures increase the dosage.
Your Tomatoes will love you for it and give back three times over.
One healthy Tomato can supply over a dozen fruits.
It is recommended to have 3 plants for one family.
Throw in a Cherry Tomato just for good measure as these guys are super hardy and very prolific! Recommended vegetable to grow in containers! Luckily these days there are many available dwarf species that grow perfect in the potted vegetable garden.
These plants have been handpicked by specialist nurserymen just for containers.
You see on the odd occasion a plant may develop a certain way and the nurserymen spot this.
Before this time such plants would of been thrown away as poor producers because they grow small and don't produce over a large area.
But this is what we container small space vegetable growers want.
Here is a list of plants that you can look for at your local nursery that will grow well in a container vegetable garden.
These plants will have a wide range of common names, so ask at the nursery which are available.
Mini Cucumbers - These are great and grow to about one meter (3 ft) and are very prolific and tasty.
Fruits need to be picked and eaten at about 10cm long (4 inches).
Grow them vertical in full sun to save space.
Mini Watermelon - Usually a yellow texture with a sweet flavor growing up to one meter in length and producing fruit the size of a tennis ball.
Also can be grown vertical.
Tomatoes - All varieties.
If you don't have much success with Tomatoes grow Cherry Tomatoes as these guys are super hardy, prolific, pest free and very tasty.
Full sun minimum six hours! Lettuce - All varieties can be grown in containers in the potted vegetable garden.
Many like to grow them in foam boxes.
Lettuce needs to grow fast to avoid bitterness in the leaf.
Plant with nasturtium (companions) in a quality premium potting mix full of blood and bone.
My tip here is to grow lettuce in a self watering container for optimum growth.
Second tip- Grow varieties where you can pick the leaves and come back, so you have an abundant supply of lettuce.
Strawberries- There are many varieties of Strawberries and virtually all of them can be grown in containers.
Use a premium organic potting mix and liquid fertilize in the main growing period.
Full sun is required and watch out for snails.
If you do have snails place a hard bark mulch around the Strawberries, snails will not climb over this! I hope you enjoyed my article The Potted Vegetable Garden? If you require more information on this subject please visit my website at http://www.
pottedvegetablegarden.
com Happy Gardening!
Container vegetable gardening need not be chore but an experience that you grow with.
Over time you will trial grow and appreciate many different tastes, textures and scents.
The best part is you get to eat it! Many would agree that a home grown Tomatoes tastes three times better than one purchased from the supermarket.
These were possibly picked green, then sprayed to make it ripen! Yes, it's true some fruits they induce the ripening process.
Thank goodness you don't have to.
Why? Because today you are going to learn how to create your very own Potted Vegetable Garden the healthy way! Growing Tomatoes In Pots Growing tomatoes in pots is where most people seems to start out.
The humble Tom is not only tasty but very popular on the kitchen table.
It's just so versatile! The Tomato is used in sauces, sandwiches, salads the works.
I bet your saying "Come on get on with it!" So, okay! Let's get into it! What Potting mix for Tomatoes? Well, I recommend a high quality premium mix that is full of Blood and Bone, Seaweed and yes, water-crystals! This will provide your Tomatoes with enough nutrient to get a great head-start in life.
A high quality organic mix will help flower set, repel pest and diseases and best all! PRODUCE TOP AWESOME FRUIT! Companions with Tomatoes in your potted vegetable garden The best companion for planting with your tomatoes in your vegetable container garden is the herb, Sweet Basil.
Sweet Basil helps repel pests such as the fruit fly and also creates a better flavor in the Tomatoes.
You will also find that you can pick both your Basil and Tomatoes at the same time.
Most Pasta sauces contain these main two ingredients.
Liquid Fertilize your Tomatoes! You will also want to liquid fertilize your Tomatoes at least once a week.
The key is start off with a weak solution that looks like watered down tea.
Then as the plant matures increase the dosage.
Your Tomatoes will love you for it and give back three times over.
One healthy Tomato can supply over a dozen fruits.
It is recommended to have 3 plants for one family.
Throw in a Cherry Tomato just for good measure as these guys are super hardy and very prolific! Recommended vegetable to grow in containers! Luckily these days there are many available dwarf species that grow perfect in the potted vegetable garden.
These plants have been handpicked by specialist nurserymen just for containers.
You see on the odd occasion a plant may develop a certain way and the nurserymen spot this.
Before this time such plants would of been thrown away as poor producers because they grow small and don't produce over a large area.
But this is what we container small space vegetable growers want.
Here is a list of plants that you can look for at your local nursery that will grow well in a container vegetable garden.
These plants will have a wide range of common names, so ask at the nursery which are available.
Mini Cucumbers - These are great and grow to about one meter (3 ft) and are very prolific and tasty.
Fruits need to be picked and eaten at about 10cm long (4 inches).
Grow them vertical in full sun to save space.
Mini Watermelon - Usually a yellow texture with a sweet flavor growing up to one meter in length and producing fruit the size of a tennis ball.
Also can be grown vertical.
Tomatoes - All varieties.
If you don't have much success with Tomatoes grow Cherry Tomatoes as these guys are super hardy, prolific, pest free and very tasty.
Full sun minimum six hours! Lettuce - All varieties can be grown in containers in the potted vegetable garden.
Many like to grow them in foam boxes.
Lettuce needs to grow fast to avoid bitterness in the leaf.
Plant with nasturtium (companions) in a quality premium potting mix full of blood and bone.
My tip here is to grow lettuce in a self watering container for optimum growth.
Second tip- Grow varieties where you can pick the leaves and come back, so you have an abundant supply of lettuce.
Strawberries- There are many varieties of Strawberries and virtually all of them can be grown in containers.
Use a premium organic potting mix and liquid fertilize in the main growing period.
Full sun is required and watch out for snails.
If you do have snails place a hard bark mulch around the Strawberries, snails will not climb over this! I hope you enjoyed my article The Potted Vegetable Garden? If you require more information on this subject please visit my website at http://www.
pottedvegetablegarden.
com Happy Gardening!
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