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...

is limited or not available due to concrete patios, swimming pools and fully landscaped yards.  Container gardening enables the grower to move the containers during the day to catch the best sunlight or falling rain. 

CONTAINER gardening also works well in a greenhouse setting.  Container gardening can be used for decorative purposes, creating an edible landscape or for functional purposes allowing plants to be mobile so they can be brought indoors during inclement weather. 

BETTER YET, Container gardening can utilize both decorative and functional concepts creating a garden of Eden in your Urban backyard.

HERE IS ONE of my favorite youtubers showing you how to raise carrots in a container on his porch.  He is using a conventional gardening system so the only difference betwen his demonstration and the dutch bucket system described here is in how the water and nutrients are introduced into the dutch bucket system and the growing media. 

Click here for a very infomative video showing how to set up a dutch bucket system.  Click the image link to the right for a FOLLOW-UP video showing the results and any changes the grower made going forward.   

Utilizing different types of growing medium will ensure that your plants retain moisture and retrieve needed nutrients for optimal growth and production. Avoid using soil for growing media in your Dutch Bucket Aquaponics system as it will clog filters and muddy your system.  Clay pebbles lava rock, and others linked below will work much better and enable the proper bacteria to grow in your system.  

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