Wherever you live, in some condominium high-rise in the city or in some suburban community, you don't need a plot of land to grow fresh vegetables. A lot of good food can be grown using simple containers that can be
adequately drained.
Container gardening allows you to have a window box
growing food, from herbs for your pastas or vegetables like tomatoes
and cucumbers. Select the bush or dwarf varieties of the vegetable you
want to adapt to growing in a pot. And even if you want full-size plant
varieties, all you needs is a large enough pot and plenty of soil and
water, and your greens will grow like sexy Mazone and reward you with
plenty.
Choose among vegetables that take up little space like carrots, radishes and lettuce, or goodies that bear fruit over a long period of time such as tomatoes and peppers for your container garden blessings. Choose the bush varieties for vegetable staples to have better choices adapted to container gardening.
You are only limited by the size and number of containers you can keep at your place that won\'t be intrusive to your living space. Use your imagination too, wall-hanging containers that still get air and sunshine save a lot of precious space and give you a wall of oxygen to boot. What you can grow in a container vegetable garden is limited only by the size of the container and your imagination!
Containers and Pots for Vegetable Gardens
When selecting containers for your vegetable garden, you can have almost any kind of useful container from flower pots, pails, wire baskets, wooden boxes, window planters, to even washtubs and large food cans.
Drainage
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. Containers should drain so that excess water won\'t soak and rot the roots.
Soil and Fertilizer
There are garden specialists located at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City who offer very affordable heirloom seeds, seedlings, and cheap and readily available garden soil mixes and composted organic fertilizer. In other countries, you might get your own potting mixes at gardening shops. You can make your own, of course. Mixing in one part compost to two parts planting mix (soil or potting mix) will improve fertility.
Watering
You need to water your vegetable container frequently to keep your plants growing well. Once the root systems of your crops expand, more water will be needed. Check your garden patiently every day to gauge your watering requirements.
Heirloom Seeds
The Bureau of Plant Industries of the Department of
Agriculture also offers heirloom seed varieties that have been proven
and tested as productive food growing specimens for any local farmer to
avail of as starter stock for his own farm. Keeping stock of seed is always a good habit for any community that wants to be self sufficient and start its own food supply resource.
Contrary to expectations, container vegetable gardening can give you a really bountiful harvest!
Having free food available always so you can scale whenever there are emergencies and food from the garden can go a long way for sustaining you in a fix or for survival in the long run.
In the Miyazaki movie, Graveyard of the Fireflies, suburban Japan was really desperate during severe war rations and people bartered expensive heirloom goods for even a small vegetable to sustain them for their next meal.
Living off the grid means less reliance on the support systems of the grid so that when the grid goes offline or conks out completely and cannot be restored, you survive when all the world goes to hell.
