Container Gardening

Last fall, in the midst of my jamming phase, I decided that I would try to grow some vegetables in the spring. I had forgotten about my spring plans until I noticed a display of vegetable transplants at the Home Depot. Looking at the displays of all of the varieties of tomatoes, peppers, and herbs left me excited at the idea of growing my own garden.

One problem: I live in an apartment. I don't have the space to dig up dirt to create bountiful rows of crops. I then read somewhere that vegetables could be grown successfully in containers.

And so started my obsession with growing vegetables in containers.

My container garden - started on March 22, 2008

Cinnamon Basil

Sweet Basil
It's in a pot with a tomato and banana sweet bell peppers. I am thinking about transplanting it because I think it may get too water from my constant watering to the tomato plant.

3 Sweet Banana Pepper Plants and 2 Bush Lake Bean 47 plants.

Harvest Sweet Bell Pepper Plant (Seedling)
It'll be exciting to see if this plant can actually grow into something one day.

Chocolate Sweet Bell Pepper Plant
This bell pepper is supposed to have a dark brown flesh. We'll see.
Sweet Green Bell Pepper Plant
This is my largest Bell pepper plant at the moment.
Lilac Sweet Bell Pepper Plant
Yummy Petite Orange Sweet Pepper
This plant should produce small orange peppers. The leaves were all yellow a week ago. (I think I overwatered it.) The plant seems to be recovering.
Bush Champion Cucumber
I grew this from seeds. I'll be excited if this actually grew into something.

Picklebush Cucumber
I grew this one from seed as well. It should produce small cucumbers that can be pickled. Sounds like another project...pickling.

Spacemaster Cucumber

It's there...somewhere.

Squash - Crookneck

Squash - Straightneck
Zucchini Plant
At the moment, this is one of my favorite plants. I like the leaves.

Zucchini Plant 2

My second Zucchini Plant. Strangely enough, I'm not sure that I even like Zucchini. Oh well....I have about two months to grow to love it.


Bush Early Girl Tomato
This plant is supposed to produce tomatoes in less than two months. (By May 19th according to my calculations). It's already producing flowers.
The plant has produced three stems that come from the ground. I don't know if I am supposed to cut 2 of the stems and leave the one plant or leave them as is. Any ideas??

Super Sweet 100 Tomatoes
I really needs to get a cage or something for this plant. It's an indeterminate variety, which means its supposed to grow alot...all through the season.

Bush Celebrity Plant

This poor plant. I have no idea as to why it isn't getting bigger. It was the biggest plant I had when I purchased it, but I had to bury 80% of it underground. Now, I'm left with 3 wimpy leaves tied to a stake.

Eggplant - Ichiban

Another beautiful plant. I just can't figure out what's going on with the brown leaves.

Cloud Nine White Eggplant
Supposed to produce white eggplants.