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Container Gardening VEGETABLES

Vegetable production is not restricted to the countryside or in gardens, but can be grown around the heart of the city or just in your house, even with only a limited space.

If your house has an area of ample sunshine - a requirement for growing vegetables, you can grow them successfully. What are the places that can be used for container gardening? You can use your patio, balcony, patio, rooftop patio, window tracks, etc.

Be aware of the need for sunlight for each type of culture. For leafy vegetables, sunlight is necessary should be about four hours every day, for fruit, vegetables at least 7-8 hours of sunlight daily is necessary, and root vegetables take about 6 hours of sun day.

Besides producing your own vegetables in a safer way, the attack of pests and diseases can be significantly reduced. You can also improve soil conditions by adding soil amendments, manure, such as, compost and other essential dietary nutrients required by plants.

Everything in your home that are considered waste can be used up in making them into compost. Even your domestic wastewater can be used to irrigate your plants.

In other words, the pot is considered the practice makes the use of unnecessary things.

What containers are ideal for Container Gardening?

Growing vegetables can be implemented in all types of containers such as cans, plastic buckets, tires for vehicles Split, cement bags, food bags, water bottles, plastic cans gallon, cylinder blocks, containing milk, cuts of bamboo or any containers that have been thrown. Even the coconut shells, banana bract, leaves, coconut is ideal as potting materials especially for short-season vegetables, such as, pechay, lettuce, mustard, etc.

Good growing containers must possess three important characteristics as suggested Relf (1996);

1. They must be large enough for plants to mature.
2. They must have adequate drainage.
3. They should not be held products that are toxic to plants and people.

The containers that drain poorly can affect the success of a garden container. It is therefore essential to have your containers above the ground or any other medium that would bring containers such as; slats, hollow blocks or anything to provide the space below to allow the excess water to flow freely.

For larger plants, you must use containers large and small containers for the use of small plants.

Small containers of tomatoes (1-2 gallons) are suitable for lettuce, spinach, mustard, pepper, radishes, green onions, carrots, beans and dwarves. container medium (3-10 gallons) are best for the eggplants while for large (over 10 gallons) are good for cabbages, cucumbers and tomatoes.

For most plants, containers must be at least 15 cm minimum depth for particular seasonal vegetables shooting.

Recommended container size and type / culture

5 gal. window box - Bush beans, lima beans

1 plant/5gal.pot, 3plants/15 gal. pot cabbage, Chinese cabbage

5 gal. window box at least 30 cm deep - the carrot

1 plant / gal. pot - Cucumber

5 gal. Pot - eggplant, tomato, okra

5 gal. pot window - Lettuce

1 plant/2gal. jar, 5 gal plants/15. Pot - Onion

5 gal. window box - pepper, spinach

Plants grown in containers depends on the type of soil mix to provide a maximum development growth. It is essential that you provide the best composition of the soil media to the possible return of your labor. Failure to give plants the nutrients from food necessary for their growth period, growth performance was poor, skinny and stunted plants that will result in your failure.

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