Gardening in a pot

The weather is chilly and the gardens are finishing up for the season. Feeling forlorn about fresh vegetables without room for a hoophouse?

Well, despair no more! While the title of the article sounds a wee bit unfortunate - Grow Food Scraps Indoors - the article does offer some good ideas for growing food in pots, including green onions. A good list of vegetables and some nice details about how to manage the indoor container garden can also be found here.

And just as a little extra, this blog post focuses mostly on growing in containers outdoors, but it offers sound advice on selecting containers and the unique needs of such plants. Enjoy!

Old Dodge, New Tricks or a Different Take on Container Gardening

This new short film about a slightly different take on a truck garden is brilliant and brings a smile to the face of any gardener. The farm travels about Brooklyn visiting CSA customers who can literally pick and choose straight from the soil. Visit Wicked Delicate to follow the farm's progress through the summer, and prepare to be delighted and inspired.

While we hope folks on our wait lists don't necessarily have to resort to this, we still love it!

(Image courtesy of Curt and Ian - the same folks who brought us King Corn, by the way - over at Wicked Delicate.)

Herb Garden in a Pot!

This time of year finds most gardeners out tending rows of vegetables, flowers, and herbs that are adjusting to a new life outdoors. Not every gardener, though, works a plot of land. Some work a series of pots and containers containing favorite herbs and vegetables, and beginning gardeners often begin greening their thumbs with a pot of basil on the porch. This great little Q&A in the New York Times offering tips on growing herbs in pots is invaluable. Covering annual and perennial herbs for a variety of uses and suggesting new ones for experimentation, the novice and the experienced gardener alike will find useful information to explore a whole new realm of gardening.