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Tips on Vegetables

Image: Brand X Pictures/Home and Garden/Alison Miksch | 16 Aug 2007

Beginner container vegetable gardeners will enjoy fast, edible results by planting radishes, spring onions and leaf lettuce. These can be washed and eaten right in the garden and provide encouragement while waiting for slower crops like beans and carrots.

Try growing a mixed planting of various kinds of greens (lettuce, chervil, arugula, endive, radicchio, etc.) in a wide, shallow container for your own instant salad mix. Harvest the tender leaves when they are very young. Re-seed a new container every four weeks for fresh salad all summer.

When growing tomatoes, choose the pot size that fits the selected plant: miniature tomatoes (9 L/2-gal. container); cherry or patio tomatoes (13.5 L/3-gal. container); large tomatoes (22.5 to 31.5 L/5- to 7-gal. container). Tip: Try growing cherry tomatoes in a hanging basket.