Purplemem: Here is a site that you can peek at regarding container gardening.http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8105.html

For those interested, google container gardening or gardening and cooperative extension. Each state university has wonderful gardening articles, fact sheets specific for your state.

Tulip

Do I need to put holes in the bottom of the containers? Does it need full sun?

Yes, holes at the bottom are good. I actually use an old wash tub, holes drilled in the bottom for mine. A bucket would work, or a pretty pot. Not full Sun....mine is in my front yard, gets shade at afternoon.
Tulip, I will check it out...Thanks!

CarrieAnn
Thanks for answering all my questions.
I'll go to the website now.

This will be my year!!

Yeah, a new gardener. You will save a nice chunk of change growing your own.

Just got a box from Gurneys last week. Watermelon seeds and planting trays. The trees will come later- Black Walnut and dwarf cherry.

Placing an order at Burpee's for blueberry and raspberry bushes.

Our garden is 40 x 40 and growing! I love to garden and can. Nothing like getting a jar of tomatoes from the basement, knowing they were picked fresh from our garden.

I use all natural fertilizer- AGgrand. Made by AMSOIL. When we were setting up the garden we brought in a load of mushroom soil to boost the soil. We get a ton of produce!

So itchy that we got up the last of the leaves out back and spread 50# of grass seed LOL

Here's some pics from me 8-)

Ladies, your pictures are SO pretty!!!!!!!!!!! I mostly do veggies right now, because of the cost, and we all need to eat, lol, but cant wait to do more flowers!!!!!!!!!

I have been gardening for many, many years. It gets harder and harder every year to get down and up to pick and pull weeds, but I am going to keep at it for as long as possible.

In Ohio, I can get in 3 successive plantings each year. Early in the spring, late March or early April, I plant peas, spinach, lettuce, broccoli, beets, swiss chard. In early or mid May I plant tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and green beans and cucumbers. Then in early to mid August I plant a fall garden of more spinach, lettuce, broccoli. etc. They will grow throughout the cooler fall months and will last often until mid November.

I would love to have enough space for corn, but it takes up so much room in the garden for the amount of return.

I also have flowers of all kinds all over my yard.

Maybe one of these days, but we for sure need a green house, kind of a short growing season here.