Aaah, when I lived in the city, I longed for a garden of my own. I had a tiny little deck that overlooked a manmade pond. What I didn’t know then was that I had all I needed to grow a garden right there outside my sliding glass door.
If you live in an apartment, you can grow a vegetable garden the very same way I grow MY vegetable garden. I might have a big yard, but the way I plant and grow my veggies is the same way you can …

When you start container gardening, you’ll thrill every time one of your little plants starts shooting off new growth. Every leaf makes you smile, and every new blossom makes you want to do cartwheels. It’s a very rewarding hobby that has little pay offs every day. The first time you harvest, you’ll be on cloud nine.
But then what? The vegetables keep coming, and (unless you have a large family or grateful neighbors), you’ll find yourself swimming in a surplus of vegetables. Now, if you’re like me, one of the reasons …

Just because I garden in containers doesn’t mean I escape the drudgery of weeds and weed control. Ergh. In some of my pots, I still get occasional weeds. I figure the seeds are carried by the wind or birds, and dropped in my pots. The great thing is, weed control is sooooo much easier in a container garden that it would be if I had a conventional in-ground garden. In my little containers, I just pinch up the little offenders and go about my day. My larger containers, however, were …

Last summer, I added a container Meyer lemon tree to my container garden. Eight months later, it is already producing fruit. I have three little lemons growing right now. The lemon in the photo is the largest of the three. I thought the tree was a goner, because we got an unusually high amount of rain during the winter, which over-watered my poor little Meyer lemon tree. I foolishly thought that because it was in a container, it would dry out quickly, but apparently it was not quick …

I have been container gardening for over a decade. I hold advanced degrees in horticulture and botany, and naturally enjoy gardening at home. Besides being a gardener, I am a voracious information geek, and enjoy passing on all that I have learned to others who are interested in growing vegetables in containers.
A little about myself: I am married to my high school sweetheart. We have three children. I believe in living well and eating as whole and clean as possible. I grow my home garden in containers because …