Re: Container Gardening
Container gardening, start with a good soil and a good container. Make sure you water regularly (daily or more often, containers dry out very, very quickly).
On seed packets, look for code-words "compact" "container" "low growing".
Tomato cages work great for peppers, but suck for tomatoes (they're too lightweight for most containers).
The best peppers I've ever had are marconi peppers. The giant marconis are HUGE. And the colored marconis are gorgeous. These grow amazingly well in containers.
Tomatoes - juliet is a great small paste tomato. Sun gold or sun sugar are amazing grape tomatoes (they get up to cherry tomato size). I don't know where you live, but you can extend the season by bringing them in at night and on cooler days.
I love container gardening. It's especially wonderful if you believe in organic gardening, you don't have to worry about what might be in the soil.
For organic fertilizer - alfalfa pellets smell wonderful and provide nutrients. Eggshells are good for tomatoes. Compost (you can vermicompost almost anywhere) adds micronutrients and aid water retention and draining (seems like a contradiction).
I'm about ready to start my garden, so I'm sure it will start coming back to me.
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