Container Garden/Dutch Bucket Growing Systems
CONTAINER Gardening is the method of growing fruits, vegetables and other plants in containers instead of growing in a garden. Since the focus of this website is on sustainable living, the focus will remain on growing fruits and vegetables in containers unless flowers are being used in a symbiotic relationship with the crop plants ie: planting marigolds in the container with a tomato plant.
THERE ARE two types of Container gardening, Conventional and Dutch Bucket. Conventional container gardening utilizes a container, soil, and the plant. Dutch Bucket utilizes a container, a non-soil growing medium and either Hydroponics or Aquaponics system. Container Gardening is most commonly used in Urban areas where space is limited. Container gardening is also used where in ground gardening...