What Other Veggies in Pots

FlipTX · March 29, 2007

This topic is a few months old but I wanted to reply. I'm very limited on space so I grow a lot of things in containers. I have several pots of green onions going. I've grown bok choy, lettuce, collard greens, okra, and summer squash in containers. My favorite containers are some styrofoam coolers, a little over five gallons apiece, that I painted with some UV-resistant spraypaint to keep the little styrofoam balls from flaking apart. I grow on concrete, and the styrofoam seems to help insulate the soil in the summer.

This year I'm growing melons for the first time in containers. I grew them inground last year but was frustrated at the way we kept getting heavy rains just before every ripening period. It meant bland watery melons.

March 29, 2007	#17
FlipTX Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 271	This topic is a few months old but I wanted to reply. I'm very limited on space so I grow a lot of things in containers. I have several pots of green onions going. I've grown bok choy, lettuce, collard greens, okra, and summer squash in containers. My favorite containers are some styrofoam coolers, a little over five gallons apiece, that I painted with some UV-resistant spraypaint to keep the little styrofoam balls from flaking apart. I grow on concrete, and the styrofoam seems to help insulate the soil in the summer. This year I'm growing melons for the first time in containers. I grew them inground last year but was frustrated at the way we kept getting heavy rains just before every ripening period. It meant bland watery melons.