Container Gardening: herbs and vegetables
If you are going to use a container for vegetables and herbs, you won’t necessarily need to worry about straight rows and neat raised beds. One more advantage: you can move your plants during hot summer days. But you’ll need to heartily water, fertilize and provide light. Vegetables and herbs are fastidious creatures.
Vegetables and herbs need a lot of sun both in containers and in bed. Plant them in wooden or concrete containers so that you can provide an adequate drainage.
Vegetables and herbs grow best when they have quality organic soil with plenty of compost. Also you will need to change the soil each year. Start composting if you haven’t done it yet.
The question about the amount of plants depends on your desire and abilities, but you’d better to start with small quantities of vegetables such as carrots, broccoli and beans. Once you’ve successfully grown a few shoots, add some more beans or other vegetables. But growing some plant together, don’t forget to consider symbiotic relationships.
If you have little space for your plants, try growing radishes, since they don’t mind crowded conditions: they will perfectly grow either in hanging pots or in cordoned containers. And they’re edible just three weeks after the seeds sprout.
In large containers can grow well dwarf varieties of cabbage and even corn. But corn varieties such as sugar buns will need a barrel-sized container, so be ready for that. Potatoes will need a very large and firm container. To begin with start with potato eyes set in about a foot of soil. When you see first sprouts, cover the shootings with grass and continue this process of layering and watering until harvest time.