Container gardening has a huge place in the spring garden. Don’t just use it for summer gardening!
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I’m trying quick cropping brassica like the various 40/50 day Italian sprouting broccoli and oriental vegetables plus mixed polyculture like you say. Love the spiller, filler, thriller analogy! Judicious pruning for cut and come again may help free up space below ‘thriller’ crop. Also focusing on feeding the soil and to encourage mycorrhizae and microbes.
I treat broccoli and cabbage leaves as greens, they are tasty raw and cooked, yum
I've recently became a big fan of growing in pots. It gives so much more flexibility which is especially helpful for those of us in the heartbreak zone.
I’m giving myself a little grace because I’m doing this for the first time. But I’ve found the trap I ran into with a container and raised-bed combination garden is that I talk myself out of planting things in the beds and thus I’m accumulating what I feel is too many grow bags/containers. I’m still building the beds so I guess I consider it prime real estate right now. And I also think about plants that leave a permanent seeding and question if I want that to be an issue in the raised-bed.
I’ve been growing beets since I started and my first successful sowing is when I left them in a grow bag by themselves. I’m actually on the verge of getting a harvest. It seems that they struggled in the bed (light being blocked by other things) and have moved significantly slower when planted with other things.
I always plant my broccoli in large containers, in my z10b they last at least two seasons so don’t want to take up raised bed space. I jam lettuce, onions, shallots plants in with other plants all of the time. Cabbages are in my raised beds because when it time to plant squash, tomatoes they are usually ready to be harvested. I like planting sweet potatoes in 25 gallon pots also, along with raised beds.
Last fall I converted my raised beds to 100% containers (6-55-gallon barrels split longways, and 6-16-gallon pots) placed the same area. With the conversation I increased my actual growing space by more than half going fully container. I love the flexibility I now have. I just need to learn the how-tos of container gardening.
Thank you for the tips.
I live in a rental in Auckland, New Zealand, my entire vege and fruit garden is in pots. We are currently at thr beginning of a severe cyclone and my 6 year old helped me move all the pots closer to the house and under our porch- he counted 45 pots 😬 the only ones we left out were the Strawberries because they are lower to the ground.
I grow everything possible in pots and do crop rotation to continually improve the soil quality. Totally agree with your comment about keeping them watered – it can be a struggle.