To Pot or Not To Pot
Bambino eggplant If your home does not include space for a garden, you might like to grow some food in pots. Or, if you do have a yard, you might like to expand your garden by adding a few pots. You can produce lots of food by growing vegetables in containers. You just need a little background knowledge. I am going to separate this article into two parts. The first part is about choosing the plants and varieties which grow well in pots. The second part is about the advantages and disadvantages of different pots and about potting soil mixtures. In general, when choosing food plants to grow in pots, you want to choose smaller size varieties of vegetables. The reason: you want to maintain a balance between roots and leafy vegetation. The limiting variable in growing plants in containers is water. While in a pot, the root system cannot grow as large as it would in garden soil. On a hot or windy day, the vegeta