Container Gardening: The Great Equalizer

Container gardening can allow almost anyone to have and maintain their own organic garden pretty well anywhere. It is the great equalizer.

What is Container Gardening?

Simply, it is just gardening in a container. Have you ever seen baskets of flowers hanging from front porches? Or flowers growing from a neighbor's window box?

Well, that is what we are talking about. Now using the same principles you can grow your own herbs, tomatoes or lettuce. If you have difficulty with bending or reaching, this type of gardening allows you to benefit from your own home grown organic food. That is because you can put the container wherever works best for you. You can raise it as high as you need so that you don't have to stoop.

How to get started?

1. Decide what you want to grow. Herbs are the easiest and offer large cost savings by not having to buy them. Tomatoes and lettuce are also easy as a first project.

I suggest using the miniature tomatoes and any of the numerous leaf lettuces. Buy your seeds organic or even get some from a friend or neighbor to get started.

2. Decide what you are going to use to grow your plants in. Actually, you can use pretty well anything to contain your garden as long as it has drainage and never contained toxic materials.

A large clay pot can hold several herbs all in the same pot. The size and shape is your choice. You can even buy containers for this purpose in most garden stores or hardware stores.

3. Use potting soil. Dirt from the field or garden would just tend to clump and be a solid mass of clay like earth. Maintain the drainage hole by putting stones or broken pieces of clay pot around the hole.

4. I suggest when starting out that you use herbs from a friend or neighbor. Have them take a patch out of their garden with roots and some soil still attached. Then you just need to transplant them into the container.

5. For the tomatoes and lettuce, you can plant from seed. But, I suggest using seedlings for your first go at it. Once you have been empowered with the feeling of growing your own food, you will be eager to do more.

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