veggies growing in containers

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My neighbor has strawberries and tomatoes in containers. I have lavender, basil and chives. My brother-in-law has several chili peppers growning in small pots. I had good luck with tomatoes until a bright green bug ate them. DonnaAmy <sandpiperhiker wrote:

> I wonder, along this line of conversation, if anybody has successfully> grown vegies in containers? We are shortly to move to a new apartment > that has a spacious screened porch/patio, and I am thinking seriously > of trying to grow 'maters, peppers, and such like in big pots.> Thanks for any help--Bron, I have grown some but this was only my second summer attemptingit, and it was quite disrupted by the move, which I knew about, so Ionly planted herbs this year. But last year I had tomatoes & peppers.Be careful which varieties you get, as the plants I picked up at thelocal Home Dpot were more tolerant of cooler areas than Jax was! Theydidn't do well at all. I planted some others though, and gottomatoes... if you eat eggs, crush your egg shells and put them in thedirt around th tomatoes, as

well as coffee grounds/leftover coffee. Peppers liked the direct sun better than the tomatoes, but that was inFL where direct sun last many hours a day, so you'll have toexperiment with it.I don't know if this true, but it seemed to me that if the porch wasscreened, it was hard for pollinators to get in... so I did someflower shaking, on recommendations for the organichomesteading list. I think the conversation actually started a bit ago with containercrops, and I had recommended a book (not entirely organic butlots ofgreat info) Bountiful Container, which I have, and posted aboutanother that also had high reviews at Amazon, that I hope to get. Hereare the links again so you don't have to search...http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0761116230/qid=1126977106McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container (5 stars in

the reviews on Amazon)This one also has a high rating (4 1/2 stars), and I would like to getit as well someday:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1881527700/qid=1126977106"In the present position of the planets, it's impossible to say;Just when I'll find my course again, with the boulders in my way.I should be rolling down the skyway on my cosmic wheels;Instead of stumbling down this highway on my boots of steel"Source: Cosmic Wheels by Donovan

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