5 Best Container Gardening Ideas from 2013

As the year draws to a close, it’s time to take a look back at lessons learned in the container vegetable garden. Here are the top five “Best Of” ideas from 2013.

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It ’s that meter of class when I care to expect back through the pamphlet of garden photos to prompt myself of the previous season ’s gardening lesson . It always feels good to click through the images and see the garden all green and growing because it sure does n’t look like that now .

I specially enjoyed attend at the patio container garden and relive some of the better moment from the season . Here are my top 5 successes I desire to repeat in the vegetable garden next year :

Best way to jump start the garden . EZ - walls Plant Protectorsgave me a mind start planting in the large patio containers . I used them for the Lycopersicon esculentum plant that needed the extra heat to get through parky mid - May night . establish forgetful - time of year tomatoes in the EZ - walls mean harvesting to begin with – and longer .

good vacation lacrimation idea . The reward to growingvegetables in containersis that they ’re portable . When it come time to leave the garden in previous August , I push as many container as I could into the formative kids pool and filled it with pee . When I deliver a workweek afterward , there was still a little piss in the pool and all of the plants looked like they had n’t missed me at all .

in force use of blank space . The 6 unlike salmagundi of little - sizedtomatoesdid exceptionally well in the container garden . My favorites for flavor were ‘ Tiny Tim ’ , ‘ White Cherry ’ and ‘ Sungold ’ . The most prolific was ‘ Yellow Pear ’ . I project to grow all of these again next season .

estimable pepper surprisal . I’ve never had good luck grow full - sizing honeyed Alexander Graham Bell peppers in my container garden until now . The ‘ Gemini’pepperssent to me by Harris Seeds were wanton to grow and tolerant of the weather extremes : coolheaded offset , then very hot , very dry and then drenching pelting . Although there was n’t a bushel of common pepper to harvest , the peppers themselves were huge and ripen to a gorgeous deep lily-livered .

beneficial Basil of Caesarea . The container ofbasilgrew leaf that were unbelievably big . I picked up a small mess of sweet basil at a heavy box store and was astounded that it did so well with no special attention . Now that ’s what container gardening should be all about .

What successes did you have in your vegetable garden in 2013 ? Please share your ‘ bests ’ here .

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