●Beets & Radishes: Both of these root crops yield well in pots. You can also pick some leaves from these plants to eat as greens. Squash, cucumbers, pumpkins--these plants all come in mini sizes known as bush types that are well suited for a vegetable container garden. These, too, wi...
A container with a capacity of at least 5 gallons is best forsugar pie pumpkins. Even though the pumpkins are small, the prolific vines will soon overtake a small container. Drill or poke a drainage hole in the bottom of the bucket because vegetable plants rot quickly in muddy, soggy soil...
Ontario grown root vegetables including rutabaga, carrots, turnips, and squash are hardy keepers and can be found in most grocery stores throughout the winter months. So, think soup! It’s a great winter project and there’s nothing like a steaming boil of soup to take away the chill on...
I hope this post has provided an answer to the question “What one can grow in an 8″ pot?” I’ve given you some handy tips for the most popular plants grown in containers, ascontainer gardening has its particularitieswhich you need to observe for a successful crop. And don’t forget ...
Can lavender grow in pots? Any lavender variety will grow in a container, but some are better suited than others. Dwarf Blue, Munstead, Hidcote, Sweet, Sharon Roberts, and Lavender Lady produce flowers fast and stay a manageable size in pots. – Cut lavender stems when the lowest blossom ...
It can be fixed by clearing the float after the floated elements in the container but before the close of the container.The .clearfix hack uses a clever CSS pseudo selector (:after) to clear floats. Rather than setting the overflow on the parent, you apply an additional class clearfix ...
Plant them in a container inside until sprouted to a few inches tall, when they can then be transplanted outside. Peppers, cucumbers, pumpkins, winter squash, and microgreens can all also be re-grown by salvaging their seeds. Turn those composting scraps into new,...
Mix well and put into a clean pint jar. I like using a glass jar as opposed to any other container because it allows you to see bubbles on the top and sides. This is very important as it reassures you that it is alive. Even if it is not doubling in size as you’d like, it ...
Watermelon is one of the most well-known members of theCucurbitaceaefamily, along with other fruit such as pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, and a ton of other melon types. Watermelon itself grows in several different varieties, from large to small, seedless to seeded, and red-fleshed to yellow-...
Birds appear to know intrinsically when it is time to move on. To go south for winter, north for summer. Come October and November, we see ribbons of geese veeing on their way, with the chatter of children in the backseat of a station wagon. I expect within a month or so, here in...