How to Plant Vegetable Container Gardens
Tips, Tricks
Listen as Carol Allen shows how to raise vegetables in containers. Click "Show More" for a detailed list of important points in the video! - To create a Salad Bowl of Chives, Parsley, Thyme, Lettuces and Radishes, Carol recommends a container like the one shown above. - Her favorite planting medium is Fafard Complete Planting Mix, shown above. It provides good drainage, which is key. - No need for packing peanuts or stones at the bottom of the container to improve drainage -- it won't. And anyway, that excellent planting mix (Fafard) is what creates great drainage. - Fill the container 2/3 to 7/8 full with the potting medium. - Starting at 3:16 watch Carol put the tiny plants ("starts") into the medium, first spreading the roots apart so they're not rootbound. (She calls it "tough love" and it's best seen!) - She places the plants and potting medium so that it comes to about 3/4″ from the top of the container. That's important so that water doesn't run out of the container, but stays and seeps down to water the roots. - Carol slips the plant tags into the soil along the sides -- out of sight but right where she can find them to remember the variety planted. At the end of the season they're still there and can be removed for one's garden journal. - Having planted the "starts" around the edge of the container she next plants lettuce and radish seeds in the middle - starting at about 8:00. They'll grow really fast, germinating at about the same time. - The larger plants around the perimeter will be harvested first, then ones started from seed in the middle. - Beginning at 9:30 Carol demonstrates watering using a regular watering can but recommends using one with a "rose" on the end -- shown below right. - Carol then turns to a preplanted Early Girl tomato, the indeterminate type that keeps on growing. Starting in July she'll be pinching it back to encourage fullness, and removing the suckers, too. - Insert a tomato cage into the pot and then stakes to hold the cage in place (connecting them with a twist 'em). Tomatoes in containers need the extra stakes because the cages aren't be anchored as deeply in them as they are in open garden space. - Throughout the season water thoroughly and deeply, but only when the surface of the medium is dry. This potting medium changes color when it's dry, which is very helpful. At home Carol uses a hose to water containers. - For feeding vegetables in containers Carol uses Espoma Bio-tone to start, then switches to Plant-Tone or Tomato-tone later in the season. With those slow-release organic products, you don't have to worry about polluting the Bay.
Comments
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Thank you, very informative!
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This was wonderful! This nice lady is the kind of person we all would like to get our gardening advice from...I wish you would do more on veggie containers. Watering is still an issue as the hot days sometimes make it difficult to keep them as wet as they need to be.
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Thanks for the good tips-
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Best video I've seen! Thank you :-)
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This is awesome she made me start my own I have 3 pots with cucumbers and 2 big lettuce containers
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Great teaching. I am looking to start a few containers of veggies and as a true beginner this is the most helpful and well done video I have found! Thank you!
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Wonderful teacher, thank you so much.
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I wasnt able to see where she planted the seeds.
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Hi Carol I would like to see a picture or video how your salad bowl and see how it turned out! Love it thank you!
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Excellent and helpful video. Thank You
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Do you have to change soil every year or just add to pot. Thank you.
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Wow, thanks so much for LOTS of information here! This is the first video I've watched where I really felt I could do the entire process with no additional info.
I love your beautiful voice. Your presentation is very nice, friendly and warm-hearted. -
Great video. Thank you. Feeling incredibly inspired and educated.
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Thank you! Very informative and lovely to view!
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I really enjoy watching this video, this lady has a lovely voice and she is not dragging and boring like other videos I had watch today about the same subject.
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GREAT INFO GONNA USE IT IN MY APARTMENT I GET LOTS OF SUN THANKS.
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I love this video. I will be using this. Thank you.
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Excellent Video... Thank you.
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great video and great info. thank you
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