Vegetable Garden - Hanging Bell Peppers and Cucumbers
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Growing Peppers in Hanging Containers
Every Spring I struggle over how to plan my garden for the largest vegetable yield. I live in a small City and do not have a very big area for my garden so I need to be creative.
Last spring, I decided that I would hang my tomato plants in order to free up space in my raised bed garden for other vegetables. When it came time to plant my garden, I realized that I still did not have enough room for all of the vegetables I had planned for. This is where vegetable garden design came in handy and I had to get creative. If I can plant and hang my tomatoes in containers, why not other vegetables? That is exactly what I did - I planted tomatoes, green peppers and cucumbers in separate containers and hung them all from large, outdoor plant hangers. To my surprise, the pepper, tomato and cucumber's I picked last summer were big, flavorful and yielded more than I had ever had when planted in my conventional garden.
How to Start Your Hanging Vegetable Plants
I obtained 5 pound buckets with removable lids from our local home improvement store, drilled a 1 Inch hole in the the bottom of the container, filled them with compost and dirt from my garden and planted my all-ready established pepper and tomato plants in the containers. The cucumbers seeds were planted directly into the containers and left in the sun on the ground until they reached about two inches long - then they were hung from the hangers.
Hanging vegetables do require much more water than
those in a conventional garden because water drainage is very efficient
in these containers. I water these vegetables, along with my herbs that are planted in planter boxes, every evening and include organic vegetable fertilizer every 5 weeks or so. In the summer and fall you will reap the rewards of your hanging containers. Enjoy
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Thanks Max - my next dilemma is to try and figure out how to find room for melons - I will definitely try lettuce in window boxes this year.
How very sweet! The sunniest place in my yard is a concrete patio adjacent to my porch. My peppers have never done all that great out back since there's not as much sun as they like. I think I'm going to try this!
Mesclun works well in windowboxes. I grow it all winter long, though I do have to supplement the light with a growbulb for them. And most herbs love growing in boxes, don't quite know why. I keep some thyme and oregano going all winter long.
GreenGoodsGuide,
The peppers really do well when planted in hanging buckets - I also hang cucumbers and that works great too.
Maxvon 2 years ago
Some great ideas. Modern gardens are so small that you have to be imaginative to grw your own fruit and vegetables. I have Ballerina apple trees in pots and I also use pots for lettuce, courgettes etc. I'm going to incorporate some of your ideas - there's nothing nicer than eating your own produce. Many thanks - Max :)