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#198541 - 04/02/08 04:56 PM advice needed
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Hi everyone,

I would love to grow a few veggies for my hubby and myself, but i do not have alot of room to work with. My question is, can you grow veggies in 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled in them or small flat boxes with drain holes in them?

thanks for all your help
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#198577 - 04/02/08 06:30 PM Re: advice needed [Re: tboss]
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You don't mention what you had in mind for vegetables, but my wife & I have had good luck growing tomatoes, bell & hot peppers in 5 gallon sized planters. We were given some long plastic box planters like the kind most people use for flowers but we did bush beans & radishes in them. All turned out well. My only advice is from finding out the hard way- is to anchor your tomato pails down-with stakes, sticks and/or twine or something because as they get bigger the wind loves to blow them over! I also pruned the tomatoes to keep them a nice bush size, but you can get hybrid tomatoes bred for container planting, we just never bought them.

Good luck!
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#198588 - 04/02/08 06:51 PM Re: advice needed [Re: Soilmover]
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i've grown nearly everything from beans to zucchini in 5 gallon buckets. it all went as well as i monitored the water. i prefer it as i get older. i'm just not up to hoeing a long row (or short one for that matter) of veggies of any kind.

and i used food grade buckets that various restaurants gave me. drilled holes in the bottoms and went for it.
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#198617 - 04/02/08 08:06 PM Re: advice needed [Re: Jiffymouse]
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Hi Jiffy! Good advice.
Yep, anything can be grown in containers. Corn would be a challenge, but tomatoes, cukes, squash, you name it, will do fine as long as you water. 5 gallons may be more than you need for some. I grow peppers and some tomatoes in 3 gallon containers. Leaf lettuce and radishes, spinach, others do great in anything with a depth of 6 or 8 inches of soil.
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#198802 - 04/03/08 07:14 PM Re: advice needed [Re: peppereater]
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would you believe, i grew corn 3 years ago in buckets? i had 4 stalks, 2 per bucket, and got one ear. but i'd have done better if i had remember to water that was a bad year for me, but everything i started came up and gave me something to eat!
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