Let's Talk Containers

Still considering a small space garden? Let's talk containers.

Whether you've definitely decided that you are going to build a small space garden or you're still mulling the idea around a bit, I want to 'talk containers'.

The containers can be made of clay, wood, plastic, metal, or even recycled materials. Containers for small space vegetable gardens need to be big enough to support your plants when they are fully grown, have adequate drainage possibilities, and if they are recycled, they should never have held any kind of product that could be considered toxic to plants or people.

A few container suggestions include barrels, flower pots, large water jugs, window boxes, large baskets plastic lined (be sure you have drainage holes punched in the plastic lining for drainage purposes.)

Perhaps you would rather buy or build a wooden planter box. Keep in mind that cedar wood is the most resistant to wood rot. Other attractive containers are bamboo planters and willow planters.

There are a variety of very attractive and efficient planters available online. Simply Planters has a great variety of wonderful containers and they're having a great 'pre-season' sale right now. Over 250 Styles Of Garden Planters! Most Items Ship Free!

Windowbox also caters to container gardening needs and they have some nifty little growing lights to get you 'jump started' Let WindowBox.com help you experience the joys of growing plants in containers!

I could talk containers for hours, if you let me go on and on. I have so many ideas. But, if I want to get down to the business of growing a small space container garden, I almost always opt for something that was made for container gardens. It cuts down on the planning and preparing stages and lets me get right to the planting and tending.