Organic Vegetable Gardening

Many people may think that you need loads of space in a huge garden in order to grow organic vegetables but this is just not true. In fact as long as you have enough room to place a few containers (which everybody does!) then you can easily grow your very own organic vegetables. Many vegetables have ‘mini varieties’ which are absolutely ideal for container gardening, some of the more popular vegetables are cherry tomatoes, asparagus and spinach.

Growing vegetables in containers has some very good benefits over standard growing as well because you are able to provide ideal growing conditions for your veg making sure the soil is just right for them, plus it can be easier to win the war over the pests as well.

You can use a wide variety of different containers to plant in, ranging from terracotta pots, wooden pots, clay, plastic or my favourite things to use are old containers that you may find around the house like paint tins, jars, cake tins, kitchen colander’s, the list is endless! But be sure to make some drainage holes in the bottom of whatever you decide to use so that the excess water is able to drain out.

If you put a layer of broken terracotta pot or chunks of polystyrene at the bottom of your pots this will prevent drainage holes from becoming clogged up with compost and soil from falling out. Also if you stand your pots up on something like bricks then that will help it to drain more effectively.

So you have no excuse for not giving it a go now! You can start off with one or two containers at first but I’m sure once you get the hang of it you will end up with a lot more than that.

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