Container gardening can be a very productive way of growing produce, especially when growing space is restricted, such as apartment balconies and villa homes / town houses with small backyards.
Been working on our Container Garden in TN today. Going to add 2 more of the 8' long x4' wide ovals and two more 3' diameter rounds and call it done. That is about all of the garden I want to do now days LOL. Far cry from the 17 acres of market garden I used to grow. Can grow all the fresh vegetables and herbs we need in those. Not enough to can the hundreds of quarts I have until this year. But very productive yet low maintenance way to garden. Not the cheapest way to do it but that was my choice on these, Rings and ovals I have around $500 into and the Fill Dirt I bought 100 bags of the Miracle Grow Raised bed Mix at $7 per bag and 50 of the cheap top soil fill dirt bags at $3 per. My Raised beds in Southern IL were a Lot cheaper since I used scrap slab wood off the saw mill and filled them with tractor buckets of top soil scraped out of the waterways. ANd instead of starting the plants I just bought Bonnies at $6 per and have maybe $150ish into plants.. So around $1500 total into these in the pictures and the two rings not pictured. Hey It ain't like the TN soil is anything resembling the North soil....... If you can even call sandy red clay with rocks soil And techincally raised beds are containers.......... just really big containers
Container berry plants. A wonderful way of getting the kids into the garden and away from their digital nannies.
I got a late start this year, because of my move to the land of Mrs Ippi. But got a patio full of containers going now. Tomatoes, peppers, cukes & zucchini, plus a bunch of herbs in small pots, that I should be able to keep going year round, now that I'm out of the snow belt. Oh, and strawberries! Got to check out that video on berries, since I'm wondering how you'd get the canes for raspberries to work, in a smaller container than mister @Kamp Krap is using?
