Organic Home Vegetable Garden - Container Gardens By Raymond Kante

Answer this question. Do you live in the city where dirt has given way to concrete and asphalt and do not have the space to plant a healthy organic home vegetable garden? I used to be the same way and what I found out was that you can still have a produce filled garden right in your own apartment or out on a small deck.

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a huge backyard that they can turn the soil and plant their favorite herbs, vegetables or fruits, but there is a pretty easy solution to this problem, it is a Container Garden.

What is a Organic Home Vegetable Container Garden?

A container garden, as the name implies is just a garden that has been planted in small containers of some sort.

Container gardens can be planted in milk cartons, small pots, boxes, plastic buckets, and even an old potato sack, if you have one. There are limitless items you can use to plant organic vegetable home gardens with limited space at hand.

Stay away from metal containers even though they are strong they conduct heat and will expose the roots of the plant to a lot of temperature change that is not good for the growth of the plant.

All you need is the willingness to take action and start collecting the containers that you wish to plant your vegetables or herbs in.

If you have the space a small 5' by 5' box is ideal for planting quite a few different organic vegetables.

What you can plant in small areas!

Here are just a few ideas of vegetables that you can plant and the size of container you will need. Some of these may take a larger container than a milk carton or small box but this will give you a basis to work off of.

Baby Finger, Gold Nugget, Kinko Carrots can be planted in round containers that are about 6" deep.

Early Snowball Cauliflower are fast growing vegetables that will grow well in an 18" wide by 24" deep container.

Pod Peas in the Sugar Ann, Sugar Bon or Sugar Daddy type will grow well in a 12" wide by 12" deep container.

This should give you a good start to getting your organic home vegetable container garden off to a great season. There are many more types of organic vegetables that grow very well in containers. I urge you to learn all you can about the types of plants you are wanting to grow before jumping into container gardening to quickly.

I jumped in a little to fast and I found out that not everything will grow as you had planned if you do not have the knowledge. I have linked a great website for you to checkout to more knowledge on all types of organic gardening. You can just click this link for best organic garden tips or you can also visit http://bestorganicgardeningtips.info. Do not wait to find out what works and what does not on your own. It will become frustrating to have your plants not produce like you had hoped. Get the information you need first.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Tomato Blight ... Do you need to read this?


This fungal disease firsts manifests on a plant's lower leaves as very small brown on black circles with lighter-colored centers. Eventually, the number of spots increases and the leaves turn yellow. As the disease moves up the plant, it damages its ability to photosynthesize, flower, and set fruit.
You have to be ruthless to root out tomato blight. First, remove any damaged leaves you see; if too much of a plant has been damaged, uproot it entirely and dispose of it. DO NOT put the diseased plant material in your compost heap or bin; it needs to be either buried far away from your garden, or burned. Wash your hands with soap between inspecting each plant so you won't infect healthy ones.
As far as getting rid of tomato blight goes, you'll either have to wait it out or turn to container gardening, because the organisms responsible can survive in the soil for 3-5 years. That's why you should never replant new tomato seedlings in an area recently struck by blight. To be safe, you'll need to move your tomato patch somewhere else for several years.
If you're growing tomatoes in containers, dispose of the infected potting media (again, NOT in your compost) and scrub the containers vigorously, inside and out, with warm, soapy water followed by a bleach solution. Be sure to rinse the bleach residue off the pots before replanting in them.
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