Growing a garden in containers is rapidly becoming more and more popular. Also, it is very simple and sometimes easier.For years we have seen people growing flowers in containers and hanging baskets. Now the growing trend is to have a vegetable garden grown in containers. This is especially helpful for people who have no yard or a limited yard available to plant vegetables.Favorite container garden plants are: tomato, pepper, herbs, strawberries.You can purchase special tomato plants called deck tomatoes that do especially well in pots. You will need to stake them in the pot but they do not grow especially tall or large and produce tomatoes throughout the summer.Plants not very well tolerated for container growing are the vine variety that need to crawl along the ground. These would be pumpkin, zucchini, yellow squash, eggplant and cucumber. Of course, corn and potatoes also fall into this category.With herbs the easiest way to start them is early in the spring with seed packets. You can go to your local dollar store and purchase seed packets and a plastic starter seed growing flat for a couple of dollars. Once you have started your seeds and have seedlings about 2 to 3 inches
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GROW YOUR GARDEN IN CONTAINERS