Apartment or City Garden / Bucket Garden

Just because you don't have a garden plot to plant in doesn't mean you cant grow something beautiful or beneficial.

Container gardening presents many options for growing a variety of plants, from asparagus to zinnias. Its also a great opportunity to be creative. Almost anything can serve as a receptacle for soil with a modification or two. From overturned football helmets to watering cans to old boots, you can create a patio- or window-full of eclectic containers holding exciting plants.

Even if you're just using plain old Terra cotta pots, consider painting them in interesting ways to help liven up your balcony. Drainage holes are the main necessity for any container being used for plants. If you cant or don't want to put holes in a particular pot, think about how to fit a smaller container already equipped with drainage holes inside the pot in question. This can be a good way to hide the not-so-pretty plastic containers you might buy your plants in.

You may have to empty the larger containers of water and clean them every so often, but its a small price to pay for having better-looking pots.

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• Apartment
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• stealth
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• Gardening
• self-sufficiency
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• tomatoes

[IplayD20]

i wonder if you can grow weed like that?

[murphyld66]

I grew peppers and tomatoes on the patio of my third floor apartment in Houston. It was fun to eat fresh tomatoes that I grew myself. Because my stomach couldn't take it, I only ate a few of the jalapeno and habanero peppers, I gave most of them away to the people I worked with. I was also able to grow a softball sized pineapple, but they take a long time for the plant to mature to the point where they will bear fruit.

[tjsei]

dam dude how did u get thoes tomato plants so big lol???

[joeybognar]

you have a green thumb, nice job man.

[rataMacue22]

Nice