Growing Vegetables in Pots - be self sufficient!

Lynne Level 1

October 16, 2016, 4:20 am

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With the growing food prices everyone is moaning about the cost of vegetables,fruit and salads....

I've done plenty of moaning myself in the past few years.

However I grew up on a 2 acre small holding and we grew loads of our own food. The benefits of growing your own food go so much further than just the cost benefit but also because you know exactly what is going into your food.

Most of the food you buy from the shops has been sprayed with chemicals and who knows what else.

I am renting at the moment which makes growing food in my garden a bit tricky. Firstly I am not free to just chop out the owners plants to make way for the big veggie garden I would love to have, but also it will be heart breaking for me one day to leave a veggie garden. I did this once in a rented house where the owner was very happy for me to make a veggie garden. When I moved out I had to leave all my hard work.

The answer now is to get into pot gardening. Did you know what you can grow loads of things in pots? Even if you don't have a garden you can at least make a little potted herb garden in one of your sunny window sills!

So many plants grow beautifully in pots and when you move home you just take your garden with you!

Right now I am growing cherry tomatoes, rocket, coriander,parsley, rosemary and chives in just a few pots outside my front door!

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ermini2

ermini2

I wish i had a green thumb because then I would have totally been growing my own stuff. The town I live in right now, we pretty much just have a super walmart, save a lot, and a marketplace (which is super expensive). The fruits and veggies are always hit or miss from walmart, and the marketplace is too expensive.

I may really try to focus on gardening and planting and trying to get good at it because all these things they put in our foods to make them last longer and grow bigger is just sooooo not healthy for us. Thanks for sharing, because I think I may try to do this, at least next year. (winter is approaching here) =]

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Lynne

Lynne

Seriously give it a go, my kids are loving it. They water the plants every day and their job is checking them daily for any snails and caterpillars which they must remove.

They take their job very seriously and when they saw the green tomatoes recently they were just over the moon. Your daughter will love it!

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Lynne

Lynne

Seriously give it a go, my kids are loving it. They water the plants every day and their job is checking them daily for any snails and caterpillars which they must remove.

They take their job very seriously and when they saw the green tomatoes recently they were just over the moon. Your daughter will love it!

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galegatling

galegatling

My grandma used to have vegetable pots all over her garden before and sometimes the smaller ones will be hanged uniformly along with the others. They look so nice with the screens and all. Now in our current house, we don't have vegetable garden because we are living in a village and there isn't any free lots for gardening. :/

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Heatman6190

Heatman6190

That's very thoughtful of you and it really a nice plan to grow some of the foods one consume and vegetables are a good part of such food stuffs. As much as I would agree that growing these vegetables are good, I won't be supporting the suggestion of doing so inside of a pot.

This pot planting is definitely going to cost extra in trying to maintain good conditions of those plans and so therefore, one should be very careful with what he or she does planting with.

If there is a garden around, I don't think it would be advisable to still cultivate vegetables using a pot. Only flowers are what I could agree to be grown inside of a pot.

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overcast

overcast

I think container gardening can be a good solution for those who want to be self sufficient. And they can add some value to their existing plants etc. And I have found that some of the herbs and the vegetables works just fine with that. For example aloe vera, coriander, mint leaves and few other herbs can be good for the planting. I think on that note we have to consider these set of the vegetables for the container gardening. You can also plant them in the unused aquarium bowls and the racks. That would be more than the good for many people. I have seen that working in many ways.

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Blank629

Blank629

The price of the vegetables in the market continue to rise as time pass by. I regret in not listening to my father at that time he told me to plant more vegetables. But thanks to his hardwork, we grow not that much vegetables but it always saves our everyday lives. We used to make dishes out of it. I really love eating vegetables. And now, I help my father planting more vegetables than before. So that we can eat plenty foods as well as earn money from it.

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