Category: Container Gardening

Container gardening is a method of gardening that involves growing your vegetables, herbs and fruits in containers or pots. You will learn about cheap containers to grow vegetables and other container gardening ideas.

This category is the one stop shop for all things container gardening.

  • How Many Tomato Plants Per 5 Gallon Bucket: A Comprehensive Guide

    How Many Tomato Plants Per 5 Gallon Bucket: A Comprehensive Guide

    How many tomato plants per 5 gallon bucket? For the best results, you should only plant one tomato plant per 5 gallon bucket. This will give you optimal growth and yield. Planting too many tomato plants in a 5 gallon bucket or other containers will cause the plants to compete for nutrients and space. Hi…

  • How to Grow Kohlrabi in Containers: Things You Need To Know

    How to Grow Kohlrabi in Containers: Things You Need To Know

    How to Grow Kohlrabi in Containers: Things You Need To Know You can grow Kohlrabi in containers by planting seed directly into your pot filled with nutrient-dense potting mix or by starting seeds 4-6 weeks before your last frost to transplant outside when it is safe. Once you have planted your seeds or your plants…

  • How to grow Blueberries in pots

    How to grow Blueberries in pots

    How to Grow Blueberries in Pots There is nothing better than growing your own fruit at home in your very own garden. Just think about it, you wake up in the morning and go out to harvest your very own blueberries.  Wouldn’t that be amazing?  Yes!  Blueberries can be easy to grow in you have…

  • How to Grow Strawberries in pots

    How to Grow Strawberries in pots

    How to grow strawberries in pots Fall is just around the corner.  Do you know what is amazing?  Picking fresh strawberries during the winter. Even on the coldest of winter days, you can enjoy fresh-picked strawberries for your favorite snacks and desserts without having to pay the phenomenal costs at the grocery store. Here is how to grow strawberries in…

  • How to Grow Garlic in Pots

    How to Grow Garlic in Pots

    How to Grow Garlic in Pots Why grow your own garlic? It is easy to just buy it at the market.  Homegrown garlic is delicious!  Once you have grown your own, you will never buy it again!  You can easily grow it at home by learning how to grow garlic in pots! A little about…

  • 5 Ways to be Frugal with your container garden

    5 Ways to be Frugal with your container garden

    So you want to have your very own vegetable container garden? Are you concerned with the start up costs? Is it worth it?  Absolutely! Here are 5 ways to be frugal with your container garden. Before you know it, you’ll be a frugal vegetable container gardening guru! 5 Ways to be Frugal with your Container…

  • Revitalizing Potting Soil: 4 Incredibly Easy Steps to Reuse Soil

    Revitalizing Potting Soil: 4 Incredibly Easy Steps to Reuse Soil

    Revitalizing Potting Soil: 4 Incredibly Easy Steps to Reuse Soil Ever wondered if you could reuse your old potting soil?  It can be done!  Here are 4 Incredibly Easy Steps to Revitalizing Potting Soil! How do you revitalize and reuse potting soil? Use compost to refresh potting soil from last season and keep your container…

  • What is Container Gardening

    What is Container Gardening

    What is Container Gardening? Container gardens are simply when you purchase or re-purpose containers and fill them with soil and put the plant of your choice inside the container. This is a very simple way to garden and produce a lot of vegetables in a very easy way. All you need is a large container,…

  • From buying to growing our own

    From buying to growing our own

    We want to first thank you for taking the time to learn about us and what we are trying to accomplish here in our little urban homestead.  It has been a lot of work to get to where we are and there is plenty more to accomplish.  This is the story of our inspiration and…