2010 Vegetable Container Garden

We have always wanted to try our own vegetable garden and this year we are going to give it a shot. We dont have space for a garden so we are doing it in containers. We found a book that explains self watering containers, and knew this would be perfect for us. Once we realized how much water vegetables need, we realized thats why we have never been successful in the past. Hopefully with the help of these self watering containers we will have better luck.

First of all I will quickly explain what a self watering container is. Basically, it is a pot with a fake bottom that has a water reservoir below it. There is an opening in the bottom, or a tube that sticks up, which allows you to fill the reservoir and this encourages the roots to grow deep to get the water.

We planned on trying to grow basic stuff like tomatoes, Herbs, and peppers, but that quickly changed once we saw all the vegetables at the garden center, and it changed even more when we visited my parents and they sent us home with more. We now have broccoli, peppers, lettuce, cabbage, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, arugula, tomatoes, eggplant and onions. Here are some pictures as of this weekend.

This is our herb pot, it contains parsley, chives and cilantro.

These are white onions, once we put them in the pot they really began to grow tall. I cant wait to see how they turn out.


The pot on the left is our broccoli and on the right is arugula and a pepper plant.

On the left is 2 more peppers and on the right is more broccoli and some basil.

There were so many onions in the pack we did plant a few in the ground. Who knows if these will survivie.



This isn't a vegetable, but its a rose bush my granny gave me when Rod and I got married. This thing grows like you wouldnt believe. If I didnt trim it, it would be taller than the house. Last year I cut it back and it didnt do so well, and I was afraid I might have killed it, but this year it is growing strong as ever. I can't wait to see how many blooms it makes this year.

This also is not a vegetable, but I had to post this one too. This is a mum that Mike gave us a while back. I thought we had lost it but this year we fertilized it and it is taking off like crazy. I look forward to this one blooming in the fall.