Growing Vegetables

Because I have a small garden I don't have room for a proper vegetable plot. However, I have a load of pots and tubs on the patio and have grown tomatoes, peppers, culinary herbs like mint and rosemary, onions and carrots too. This year I tried a trick my Dad used to use, we had some lengths of plastic pipe which we cut and tied together in a bundle and planted parsnips and carrots, the pipes meant that they could grow straight and they did very well. I also managed to plant some troughs with lettuce, spring onions and a few beetroot.

I havent done thi sbut amke for some thing interesting to do but I would have to grow them out side for no place for them in the hoouse.

You should be able to grow most vegetables in pots, many herbs too. In fact, with hydrophonics, you can grow all the vegetables you need in a very small space. Check it out on the internet - there should be sites explaining the whole process.

We an grow in small pots with ginger , onion upto some limit. Iam growin chilligreen and southindian thulasi,camphor odour plant.It is an pleasure and satisfy to grow a live plant with life.

I have grown herbs in pots before, but I've never been successful. I don't know if they get too hot in the window, they are over watered or underwatered. I can easily force bulbs flowers indoors, but I don't do well growing herbs indoors. I haven't tried any thing else in pots. I am building a greenhouse so grow these things in a protected environment, but they will be in the ground.

hi perry! we grow vegetables in our backyard. we have a compost pit wherein we get the soil for our garden plot...that serve as fertilizer. we grow all the vegetables in that garden plot because we have observed that they grow better and faster there than in pots. of course proper care and water is needed to have a healthy vegetables (we dont use any chemical fertilizer) :-)

I grow vegetables at the back of my kitchen. I have a small space where I put my vegetables in pots. I have ginger, lemon grass, sili plant, onion leaves, aloe vera for my hair and kangkong. That's about it. Since I use only a small portion for cooking I can save money not buying vegetables in the market.

hey P2007, My Momma had a green thumb & could grow anything-even if her friends had a dying plant she would ask to have it & bring it back to life-me I have a brown thumb ( I even killed a cactus) but I love fried green tomatoes & I'm gonna give it a shot next summer. +'s |:)

I don't grow any vegetables in pots or in the garden. Its a good idea though, one I might start when I retire. Some vegetables lend them selves well to pot growing, such as various herbs. Containers for your vegetable gardens can be almost anything: flower pots, pails, buckets, wire baskets, bushel baskets, wooden boxes, nursery flats, window planters, washtubs, strawberry pots, plastic bags, large food cans, or any number of other things. No matter what kind of container you choose for your vegetable garden, it should have holes at the base or in the bottom to permit drainage of excess water.

Absolutely, as we live in a condo and cannot grow them any other way. I grow sweet potatoes and ginger and some pot herbs, too, and just about anything else that is edible and makes a nice houseplant. We travel a lot so I don't like plants that would die when we are away from home. That is why if you can't eat them, I don't usually buy them, but prefer to grow things from roots and seeds left over from our meals. If the plants are edible and delicious then maybe I will buy the seeds to get a better quality plant, but most of the plants I grow for free, like the avocado.