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Growing Vegetables in a Small a Garden

Not all people have a garden but have a small space you still can grow plants or vegetables in containers.

Do you have a space like this.

This is just a few vegetable you can grow in containers.

Salad crops are among the easiest and quickest crops to grow, they also need very little room so ideal for your first attempt at growing on a windowsill. Lettuce seeds are best sown on the surface of your compost and covered with a very fine layer of compost as the seeds need light to germinate, sow to deeply and they won’t come up. Lettuce can be sprinkled over the surface of your pot to grow a mat of baby leaf salad leaves or sown at the spacings recommended on the packet if you want to harvest a full head of lettuce.

Baby Carrots
Smaller pots are ideal for baby carrots which are harvested at an immature stage so deliciously small and sweet. Full size carrots will need to be grown in very large and deep pots or raised beds due to their deep root systems.

Peas & Beans
Peas and beans work very well in pots and are a very attractive addition to a container garden especially when flowering before the pods are produced. Make sure you use a pot large enough to hold the plant support, a wigwam structure made from bamboos is ideal.

Potatoes
I am including potatoes here as they are easy to grow in a potato bag planter which is essentially a very large pot. Potatoes are ideal as container grown vegetables providing you keep the well watered, lack of irrigation is the most common reason for small yields. For best (dare I say fantastic) results mix ‘Living Green’ wormcast compost with ‘Envirogrind’ soil improver at a ratio of 60/40.

Early varieties are more suitable for growing in pots as they mature quicker and are usually harvested before the the most common potato disease, blight, becomes an issue in late Summer.

Dwarf bush varieties are also available for smaller pots which don’t climb so don’t need support like pea ‘Tom Thumb’ or the excellent ‘Purple Teepee’ dwarf French bean.

Peas and beans will stay productive longer if harvested vigourously, the more you pick the more you get!

Tomatoes
Depending on the climate where you live tomatoes are grown either outside in a sunny sheltered spot or inside in a greenhouse, polytunnel or bright conservatory.

Tomatoes are easy to grow and well suited to pots providing they are fed well; bear in mind a single tomato plant can produce hundreds of fruit so nutrient demands are high. Mix a poultry manure and seaweed pellet in with the compost and feed plants when required with a liquid tomato feed high in potassium.

Climbing and bush varieties are available depending on your preference, climbing varieties tend to be more productive and can be supported with a single pole fixed in the centre of a large pot.

So as you can see small space needs vegetables can been grown.