Whether it's to save money, an act of preparedness, or just a fabulous hobby, container gardening is a fantastic and flexible way of growing food for you and your family.

Growing your own food is such a great idea...

Immediate benefits:

• You save a LOT of money!
• Its a fantastic, rewarding and fun hobby
• Your food tastes SO much better, and can be more nutritious
• You are much less dependent on supermarkets
• Your living space is converted into a fantastic green Eden
• You know your food is not laced with chemicals and pesticides
• You’ll enjoy a much healthier and calmer lifestyle, and be more in-touch with nature
• It’s a wholesome, excellent and educational activity for the kids

Less considered benefits:

• You gain great knowledge and life-skills
• Growing your own food dramatically reduces your carbon footprint
• Insurance - You are protected from potential food shortages or break-downs in “the system”
• It’s safer! You know the history and origins of your food See this article

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Why Containers?
Container gardening will open up opportunities to you, allowing you to grow food virtually anywhere with much greater control and flexibility, and with less disease and pest issues.
Essentially, all you need is some dirt, something to contain it in, some seeds, sunlight and water.
If you do it with some simple planning-ahead, for example, by combining container gardening with other methods such as vertical gardening, square foot gardening, raised bed gardening, and using hanging or wall-mounted containers, you should be able to utilise every inch of space available to you, and have your own flourishing Eden, enjoying an abundant crop of fresh healthy vegetables and fruits throughout the growing season.

No need for specialised equipment
With container gardening, you don’t need to go out and buy expensive pots or containers, tools and equipment. Those old pots and pans you were going to throw out, that broken leaky kettle, those empty cola bottles, those lengths of scrap wood you were planning to throw out, even old compost bags – all can be used as containers for growing food plants in.
That old bucket with the hole? - A perfect container for hanging up to accommodate your cascading tomato plants!

Low to Zero Budget?
If you are inventive or resourceful enough, then growing your own food, or even Urban Homesteading can be done on a very low budget. Obviously there are consumables that are needed, such as growing medium, seeds and feeds. Where these come from depends on your budget and your choices, but it should be noted that some things are not worth scrimping on, and could mean that all your efforts are in vain if your crop is virtually non-existent from say, using poor soil or compost.

It also doesn't pay to scrimp on buying seeds. For example, you might try saving them from supermarket-purchased fruit and vegetables, but many of these mass-produced plants come from F1 Hybrid seeds that are designed to give a high-yielding crop once only. Any subsequent specimens grown from the resulting seeds, if they do actually grow, may provide an inferior and much smaller crop.

See my article on seeds for more information.

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