Starting a container vegetable garden is simple but it is not easy. I’m going to tell my story using photos of my container garden. There are a number of tips and tricks that you can easily find in a wide variety of books, but nothing compares to tried and true experience. I’m [...]
Read More...The deck container garden has done very well during it’s first month. The container gardening drip irrigation system appears to be working without any problems or major leaks. The planter boxes are holding up well. The plants appear to be growing healthily with just enough water to each plant pot. The heat hasn’t been bad [...]
Read More...Spring time has arrived in Central Texas and it’s time to take all the lessons I learned from last year’s deck container gardening and apply them to a new round of education, fun and starting a deck garden. I had some success last year and am excited to get started again and take advantage of [...]
Read More...Winter is quickly drawing to a close here in Central Texas and it is time to begin thinking about planting a new deck garden. My deck container garden ended poorly last year, primarily due to very high temperatures from the heat radiated from the deck back into the planter boxes. I used a soil thermometer [...]
Read More...Soil Temperature Problems Start Arising in the Deck Container Gardens… I asked the County Extension Agent to visit one day and help me find out what might be holding back the growth of my plants in the deck container gardens. The typical summer temperatures in Texas in the Summer range from 80 in the morning to [...]
Read More...My container tomato plants are tall enough now that they need some support. I wanted to build a support system that would be usable for all of my plant containers. I bought “hog panels” at the Tractor Supply Store and some inexpensive aluminum conduit to build the support system. I measured and cut them all [...]
Read More...Some plants are doing OK and some are dying. I’m still not sure why but someone suggested that is might be possible that my soil temperature is too high. I’ve ordered a soil thermometer. The beans continue to struggle. The cucumbers are growing, but very slowly. The spinach is officially dead. It’s probably not a [...]
Read More...My experiment in container gardening is going very slowly and I’m beginning to get suspicious that I’m not doing something properly as compared to a raised bed garden. The bush beans appear to be dying. The cucumbers are thriving. The tomato plants in the planter boxes are growing too fast and too high.
Read More...I continue to have trouble with my deck container gardening. The plants are not performing at the level that they should and I’m not sure why. The beans in my planter boxes look OK. The climbing beans are in back and the bush beans are in front. The cucumbers are proceeding nicely. Again, the climbing [...]
Read More...My container garden just isn’t doing as well as the raised bed gardens I’ve had in the past. The beans in the planter boxes continue to grow but appear to be doing so slowly. The cucumbers are growing unevenly. My research said they should do well with container gardening. I’m not sure why they appear [...]
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