Container Vegetable Gardening: What Grows in Pots?

Container Vegetable Gardening: What Grows in Pots?

All but vining and root crops grow in containers. Best: determinate tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, eggplant, bush beans. Keys: size (min 2 ft wide × 18 in deep), drainage holes, organic soil mix (compost, manure, peat). Wood (cedar) preferred over plastic/clay.

Container Rules

• Match pot size to root depth (tomatoes deep, lettuce shallow).
• Space plants properly (tomatoes 12–18", lettuce 6").
• Use bush varieties to save space.

Recommended books: "Square Foot Gardening," "The Edible Container Garden," "Container Gardening for Dummies."