Container Gardening

Container gardening lets you grow food and flowers almost anywhere there's light: a fire escape, a front step, a sunny corner of the driveway. This category covers choosing pot sizes for what you're growing (a tomato wants at least 5 gallons of soil), potting mix versus garden soil, drainage that actually drains, and watering schedules that shift with the season. You'll also find container garden ideas for shade, compact vegetable and herb varieties bred for pots, and fixes for yellow leaves, leggy stems and other common container problems.