What Are Your Best Tips For Gardening In Small Spaces?

Some time ago I found some interesting container gardening on facebook. Here is a site with a good number of them. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.287816784637432.69425.167318430020602&type=1 Here are some more but you have to go through some other stuff too. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.268329663252811.64983.167318430020602&type=3 This also has some interesting do it your self recycling.

I recommend the book, "Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew. He tells how to plant all your vegetables to make use of every square inch of garden space that you have available. You'll know how much space each plant needs and which ones are the best companion plants. There are also a lot of plants and herbs that you can grow in containers wherever you can find room. You'd be surprised at how much you can grow in a small space. I've used the "square foot" method and it really works. You can also grow a lot of things vertically. Anything that vines like snow peas and beans can be grown up a lattice so with very little ground space, you can get a large yield by letting them climb. I increased my tomato production by growing them upwards in large cages. Each plant took about 18 inches (round) of ground space but grew over 4 feet tall and provided a plentiful bounty of tomatoes. There are lots of tricks you can use to maximize your available space and lots of useful info in the book. Happy gardening!

You should check out a book at the library called Joy of Gardening. It has some awesome tips on smalls gardens. Also planting in flower pots is great for smaller like plants and for plants like tomatoes you can use buckets. Or get those topsy turvy tomatoes planters and even strawberries there is lots of options.

Though I have a Garden,I'm not a Gardener..Is there anybody out there with green fingers and lots of time on their hands that would want to make a project out of it? As for growing veggies,My Grandfather grew spuds,beans and other things,though He had a bit of a field at the back of the house..I'd have helped in picking them. For someone with limited space,(and green fingers!) the idea of a "Grow Bag" to grow tomatoes in,or hanging basket planters for strawberries and such seems like a good idea..

I moved from a house with a large yard into a condo two years ago. I grow veggies and herbs in containers and have a flower garden as well this year. I'm growing lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs this year. Really you can grow virtually everything that you can grow in the ground in a pot. I would go to a nursery to find out what plants they recommend in your area.

Like what other mylotters advice, use pots or empty cans. Powder milk cans, the bigger ones will do. I use pots and empty cans for gardening due to minimal space as well. Happy gardening

Gardening in small spaces, huh? Have you seen the commercials for the hanging tomatoe plants? That could save alot of space. And hanging planters are always decorative and nice. There are several types of tomatoes. Peppers are good too. I guess it depends on whether you want root vegetable or vine.

Certainly, small spaces are best suited to growing in pots and tubs. We have a very small are at the back of our house (mainly concreted) for growing vegetables. I've found through experiencing, that carrots, onions, broccoli and pumpkins don't take too kindly to being grown in pots, but they are very amenable to grow-bags - strange but true! My pumpkins this year, have flowered and are starting to bear fruit! YEY! We grow potatoes in canvas growing bags that have a successful enough crop every year. And we grow tomatoes in large tubs that always do well if we plant them out early enough ( so that they're not ripe come Autumn when the first frosts arrive ready for winter). And, because that area leads on to next door back yard, we use the small soiled area between us to have a hedge of lilac to make the place look pretty for us and for next door too. They don't really want to look out over a veggie garden! And just for good measure, to make the place look prettier still, I grow some annual trailers in a couple of hanging baskets hooked on to brackets along the wall. Hope this helps.

For gardening in small places I like pots. Pots in all sizes and shapes. I layer them, put them in stands, have little ones around the edges of big ones and plant all kinds of things in them. I find that pots are easy to water and when something is past bloom or harvest I just replace it with a fresh new plant that is in season. I have a lattice for climbing flowers and veggies and I have stackable pots for the layered look. I am amazed at how much I can grow just by being creative with my pots. Happy potting and lotting!