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Searching for a way to enjoy freshly grown vegetables without a garden space? Consider growing vegetables in containers on your porch, deck, patio or terrace. The gardening industry has created great options to planting in the garden soil.
A product called “Hot Potato Grow Kit” is available at www.territorialseed.com. This kit contains a cedar potato tower, seeds and bone meal. Soil is then added in layers. A second option is a “Potato Grow Bag,” a specialized fabric “pot” that can produce potatoes in any sunny location. Using this bag, seed potatoes are placed in the bag of moistened soil and covered with three inches of soil. When plants have grown to 8 inches, more inches of soil are added and this process is repeated until the bag is full. This technique encourages plants to produce a great harvest of potatoes. The “pot” is available from www.gardeners.com. Both items may also be found in local garden centers. Either container can easily fit on a deck or patio and be readily available for harvesting.
A “Strawberry Pyramid Grow Tub” that requires a mere one-square foot of space can hold 18 strawberry plants. This option on the deck or porch provides protection from the pesky garden rabbits and squirrels that usually get first dibs on the fruit. This container folds flat for easy storage. www.gardensalive.com offers this pyramid, as well as other online sources, and, again, may possibly be found in local nurseries and garden centers.
The “first ever sweet corn that can be grown in a container” is available from www.burpee.com. The corn plant not only provides two to three ears, seven to eight inches long on each stalk, but also provides vertical interest to your patio veggie garden display. Nine seeds are planted in a 24-inch container and will be ready to harvest in about two months.
Interested in growing your own mushrooms? Check out www.midwestgrowkits.com. You can also take a short field trip to the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Environmental Interpretive Center on Evergreen Road. There are mushrooms being grown on the property just a few yards south of the center.
Pole beans with their twining vines can easily be grown in containers by using stakes and trellises. And, too, there are many varieties of grape, cherry and other small tomato plants suitable for container gardening available at local garden centers. They are generally sold as “patio” tomatoes.
Season all of these veggies with your own homegrown garlic. All you need to plant, harvest and store your own garlic indoors or on a porch, deck or patio is available from www.territorialseed.com.
Take advantage of these new products and enjoy tasty a harvest from your own patio.
Jane Geisler is the Horticulture chair for the Garden Club of Dearborn. She is an advanced Master Gardener, a Master Compostor and a member of Master Gardeners’ Association of Wayne County and a member of the Henry Ford Herb Associates.
Please take a look at the Garden Club’s website at www.gardenclubdearborn.org for more information throughout the months. Have a great summer. Enjoy the flowers along Michigan Avenue in west Dearborn and at the Centennial Library. The club’s new president is Patty Mack. come meet her at the September meeting. Remember, the club meets at noon the second Monday in September through May at the First Presbyterian Church on North Brady.
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Searching for a way to enjoy freshly grown vegetables without a garden space? Consider growing vegetables in containers on your porch, deck, patio or terrace. The gardening industry has created great options to planting in the garden soil.
A product called “Hot Potato Grow Kit” is available at www.territorialseed.com. This kit contains a cedar potato tower, seeds and bone meal. Soil is then added in layers. A second option is a “Potato Grow Bag,” a specialized fabric “pot” that can produce potatoes in any sunny location. Using this bag, seed potatoes are placed in the bag of moistened soil and covered with three inches of soil. When plants have grown to 8 inches, more inches of soil are added and this process is repeated until the bag is full. This technique encourages plants to produce a great harvest of potatoes. The “pot” is available from www.gardeners.com. Both items may also be found in local garden centers. Either container can easily fit on a deck or patio and be readily available for harvesting.
A “Strawberry Pyramid Grow Tub” that requires a mere one-square foot of space can hold 18 strawberry plants. This option on the deck or porch provides protection from the pesky garden rabbits and squirrels that usually get first dibs on the fruit. This container folds flat for easy storage. www.gardensalive.com offers this pyramid, as well as other online sources, and, again, may possibly be found in local nurseries and garden centers.
The “first ever sweet corn that can be grown in a container” is available from www.burpee.com. The corn plant not only provides two to three ears, seven to eight inches long on each stalk, but also provides vertical interest to your patio veggie garden display. Nine seeds are planted in a 24-inch container and will be ready to harvest in about two months.
Interested in growing your own mushrooms? Check out www.midwestgrowkits.com. You can also take a short field trip to the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Environmental Interpretive Center on Evergreen Road. There are mushrooms being grown on the property just a few yards south of the center.
Pole beans with their twining vines can easily be grown in containers by using stakes and trellises. And, too, there are many varieties of grape, cherry and other small tomato plants suitable for container gardening available at local garden centers. They are generally sold as “patio” tomatoes.
Season all of these veggies with your own homegrown garlic. All you need to plant, harvest and store your own garlic indoors or on a porch, deck or patio is available from www.territorialseed.com.
Take advantage of these new products and enjoy tasty a harvest from your own patio.
Jane Geisler is the Horticulture chair for the Garden Club of Dearborn. She is an advanced Master Gardener, a Master Compostor and a member of Master Gardeners’ Association of Wayne County and a member of the Henry Ford Herb Associates.
Please take a look at the Garden Club’s website at www.gardenclubdearborn.org for more information throughout the months. Have a great summer. Enjoy the flowers along Michigan Avenue in west Dearborn and at the Centennial Library. The club’s new president is Patty Mack. come meet her at the September meeting. Remember, the club meets at noon the second Monday in September through May at the First Presbyterian Church on North Brady.
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