If you find yourself with insufficient space to grow a vegetable garden you can always use containers to grow a delicious vegetable garden. You can use 80 percent potting soil and 20 percent black cow manure in your containers and your plants will love you. To be sure your plants don't get water logged you need plenty of drainage holes in the bottom of your containers and you want 3-4 inches of gravel in the bottom of your containers to insure proper drainage.

Almost any vegetable that will grow in a regular garden can be grown in containers. Your ideal vegetables for container gardening are squash, lettuce, beans, green onions, egg plants,cucumbers, peppers, and of course delicious tomatoes. You can set up two containers over in the corner with a bamboo tee pee set up in each and grow pole beans all season long. The pole beans will grow up and cover your bamboo tee pee and they will be real pretty growing there also. Just be sure to keep the pole beans picked off and they will produce till frost.

Your cucumbers will need a large container also and you can let them grow up and over and down the sides of their container. Be sure that in hot weather that you water your cucumbers every day either early morning before the sun gets up or late evening after sunset.

Most vegetables will need water daily especially in hot weather. And again water your plants either very early before the sun is on your plants or late evening after the sun is gone down. Avoid getting your plants wet to avoid disease. You can plant a few marigolds in your container garden area to keep away garden pests. Use Miracle Grow for vegetables to feed your plants on a regular basis. Again apply it at the base of the plant and not on the plants.

You will want to use the heavy duty leaf bags to grow your potatoes in. Cut a series of very small holes in the bottom of the bag for drainage. And now fill the bag with top soil and black cow manure with the mixture being 80 percent potting soil and 20 percent black cow manure. Potting soil and black cow manure can be purchased at your local area Wal-Mart.

Some people build a small wooden frame to hold the potato bag in place. All you need is 4 up right pieces of wood and a rail around the top to staple the open top part of the bag to before you fill it with dirt. If you have potatoes in your potato bin that have sprouts on them you can plant these and they will grow a potato plant and in time potatoes underneath as in the photo above. You should grow a nice large crop of potatoes in your potato bag or bags.

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