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The Container Gardening for Food blog is the ongoing log of my journey and challenge into growing my own food in a small urban patio garden.It covers the latest page updates as well as my personal banter.

Grow your own food, and save a LOT of money! Container vegetable gardening is the practical solution for those of us who do not own a large garden

Vertical Gardening
Vertical gardening can be combined successfully with container gardening. Excellent if you do not have a large footprint area on the ground where you can grow things.

Gardening Tools
The great thing about container gardening is that you don't necessarily need a whole host of gardening tools to run and maintain a successful food-growing garden.

Container Gardening
Container gardening for food is one of the greatest options available to those of us who do not have large gardens, or have access to areas where more traditional gardening can be achieved.

Urban Gardening
Whether it’s a small apartment window, a roof, or an expanse of tarmac, urban gardening can transform any area into a full flourishing Eden

Getting Started
When first starting a garden with container pots, a good place to start would be to start gathering the basic items you'll need from this list....

Urban Homesteading
Urban homesteading is about embracing the simple living of our past generations, but doing it whilst living in the modern urban world.

How to Grow Tomatoes in Abundance
This article summarises some golden rules of how to grow tomatoes in order to get the absolute maximum yields from your crop.

Growing Tomatoes Upside Down
I've recently been hearing good things about growing tomatoes upside down, so I decided to not only investigate, but also to have a go myself....

Composting
Compost containers are open-bottom bins used for turning used organic waste, such kitchen scraps into a rich, fertile humus, otherwise known as compost.

Natures Larder: Dandelions
To most people, dandelions are a nuisance weed, but to the better educated, this little plant is a miracle that can provide a whole myriad of healthy edible benefits.

Natures Larder: The Stinging Nettle
To most people, the Stinging Nettle is just a nuisance, but to the better educated, this luscious green plant, is an amazing provider of food and medicine.

Garden pests are a fact of life, but I'm trying to deal with them in ways nature provided instead of using chemicals...

Dealing With Garden SlugsWithout The Chemicals
How to deal with garden slugs without the use of pesticides and chemicals. This year I am turning to whatever nature can provide for me to address the problem.

Raised bed gardening is a great idea if you have poor soil conditions, but think carefully before opting to install them if your soil is already of a high quality.

Raised Bed Vegetable Gardens
A raised bed vegetable garden is a fabulous way to grow food, with a minimum of fuss and with greater control over your growing conditions.

Constructing Raised Bed Gardens
This page and video shows how I have been constructing raised bed gardens for my patio area in order to grow the most food.

Growing herbs in containers, in general can be a wonderfully easy thing to do, and can be done both indoors and outside.

Growing Basil
Climate and temperature are key factors in successfully Growing Basil. It is a sun lover, and will do well in pots if the temperature is kept above 10 Degrees C. There is also another article on 'how to grow Basil successfully' here.

For those of us growing vegetables in containers, below is a list of plants that will do particularly well in pots as long as they are given the right care.

Growing Tomatoes
Growing tomatoes can be quite a hit-and miss affair for some. Not any more! This page tells you how to grow more tomatoes than you can shake a stick at!

Growing Strawberries
Growing strawberries can be a touch more involved than growing regular vegetables, but with some very minor attention to detail at the beginning, you can enjoy an abundant crop.

Growing strawberries from seeds
Growing strawberries from seeds can be a little trickier than growing them from small plants, but the rewards can be fabulous!

Growing Peppers
Growing Peppers is quite easy to do. Here are some useful and helpful tips to help you get the most from your crop.

Growing Blueberries
It’s important to understand when growing blueberries, that they are an acid soil-loving plant. Sandy, aerated ericaceous soil, rich in nutrients is a must, with a PH no higher than about 5.0.

Growing Potatoes
The skill of how to grow potatoes in containers is a surprisingly simple one to learn. Great news for people restricted by the amount of growing space they have.

Growing Asparagus
Growing asparagus is not a particularly quick or easy task. However, Asparagus is a perennial plant so once established, it can go on producing food for as much as 20 years.

Pumpkin Growing
Pumpkin growing can provide a serious amount of food in a short time (4 months). It's easy to do and dare I say it - fun!

Growing Lettuce
Growing lettuce can be a simple and rewarding task, with fast results and a tasty fresh crop. Lettuces grow well in cooler climates and are particularly well suited to the UK.

Growing Carrots
Growing carrots is a very simple and straightforward process. But there are a couple of things you need to know…

Growing Rhubarb
Rhubarb is quite possibly one of the simplest things in the world to grow, but it is a large spreadding plant and definitely does not enjoy being couped up in a pot.

How to grow Asparagus
This web page is a summary of how to grow asparagus in order to get the highest possible yields from your plants.

Green Beans / Runner Beans
There is something extremely satisfying about growing green beans, and in the right conditions they will provide you with a fabulous, delicious crop of food.

It’s easy to be seduced by the glossy pictures in the catalogues, but don’t be too hasty to jump in and buy gardening seeds without at least reading this page!

Heirloom Seeds
Heirloom seeds are, traditional, genetically diverse, openly-pollinated seeds that the multinational seed companies would love to stop you owning!

Survival Gardening
Survival gardening is something many of us might not have ever considered, but as each day passes, the world in general seems to be heading deeper into a tailspin.

What are F1 Hybrid Seeds?
F1 hybrid seeds are first generation seeds that come from plants with two specific parents. They can only be produced by crossing with the same type of parent plants.

Heirloom Seed Gives Amazing results!
I had misguided reservations about using Heirloom Seed, but the truly excellent results speak for themselves!

Do you grow your own food? Tell others how you are doing it by making an entry on the global gardening blog. This is a globally-based gardening blog where anyone in the world who is growing their own food can make an entry. No sign-up needed!

Global Gardening Blog: North America
Do you grow your own food and are located in North America? Let others know how you are doing by making a blog entry here.

Global Gardening Blog: Europe
Do you grow your own food and are located in Europe? Let others know how you are doing by making a blog entry here.

Global Gardening Blog: Asia
Do you grow your own food and are located in Asia? Let others know how you are doing by making a blog entry here.

Global Gardening Blog: Australia
Do you grow your own food and are located in Australia? Let others know how you are doing by making a blog entry here.

Global Gardening Blog: Africa
Do you grow your own food and are located in Africa? Let others know how you are doing by making a blog entry here.

Global Gardening Blog: South America
Do you grow your own food and are located in South America? Let others know how you are doing by making a blog entry here.

Square foot gardening is the name given to an intensive gardening method that employs specifically-sized raised growing plots that are a maximum of 4 feet wide by any chosen length

Here are some Ideas and sketches to consider for your vegetable garden layout ideas. Planning is everything! It will be a key factor in getting the maximum yields.

Straw Bale Gardening
Straw bale gardening provides abundant growing possibilities with minimal maintenance, and saves a fortune on compost and raised-bed construction materials.

My Home Built Solar Food Dehydrator
This is a page all about my home built solar food dehydrator including a how-to video. It should get well-used this summer!

This is the ongoing story of how I am trying to grow my own food and become as self-sufficient as I can, with only my small urban patio garden to work with.

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