Guide to Container Gardening (Page 2)

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Guide to Container Gardening (Page 2)

Container Gardening
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Vegetables

Small salad green such as oak leaf lettuce and mustard cress, or vegetables such as silver beet, which have a quick maturing period are ideal. You may be able to get several crops of a quick maturing vegetable from your container. Cherry tomatoes and other fruiting vegetables, including peppers or eggplant can be easily grown in containers, as can root vegetables such as baby carrots, radishes or spring onions. Try planting quick-growing small herbs and leaf lettuces around you larger fruiting vegetables.

Vegetable	Container Type	Recommended Varieties
Beans, Snap	5 gal. Windowbox	Bush types such as blue lake, contender, and tavera
Beans, Lima	5 gal. Windowbox	White Dixie Wonder
Beets	5 gal. Windowbox	Early Wonder, Detroit Dark Red
Broccoli	1 plant/5 gal. pot 3 plants/15 gal. tub	Super Blend, Italian Green Sprouting
Brussels Sprouts	1 plant/5 gal. pot 2 plants/15 gal. tub	Evesham
Cabbage	1 plant/5 gal. pot 3 plants/15 gal. tub	Discovery
Chinese Cabbage	1 plant/5 gal. pot 3 plants/15 gal. tub	Michihli
Carrot	5 gal. Windowbox at least 12" deep	Little Finger, Thumbelina
Cucumber	1 plant/gal. pot	Spacemaster
Eggplant	3 gal. pot	Black Beauty, Rosa Bianca
Garlic	8-inch deep container	Most Varieties
Lettuce	5 gal. Windowbox	Salad Bowl, Ruby, Grand Rapids, Oak Leaf, Buttercrunch, Dark Green Boston, Little Gem, Bibb
Onion	5 gal. Windowbox	White Sweet Spanish, Yellow Sweet Spanish
Pepper	1 plant/2 gal. pot 5 plants/15 gal. tub	Sweet Banana, Yolo Wonder, Long Red Cayenne, Bell Boy, Keystone Resistant, California Wonder, New Ace, Red Cherry, Long Red Cayenne, Jalapeno, Thai Hot
Radish	5 gal. Windowbox	Cherry Belle, Icicle, Champion, Scarlet Globe
Spinach	5 gal. Windowbox	Dark Green Bloomsdale, Melody, America, Avon Hybrid
Squash	2 gal. pot	Scallopini, Baby Crookneck, Creamy, Golden Nugget, Gold Rush, Zucchini (most varieties)
Tomatoes	Bushel baskets 5 gal. pots	Tiny Tim, Small Fry, Sweet 100, Patio, Burpee's Pixie, Toy Boy, Early Girl, Better Boy VFN, Pixie, Red Robin, Sugar Lump, Tumblin' Tom (hanging baskets)

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