This class , we ’re growing vegetables in containers for our educational presentation at the Minnesota State Fair . Even though the containers have been at the fairish more than a calendar week now , they still appear in force . This year ’s display help oneself fairgoers see how easy it is togrow vegetablesin container and how generative those containers can be .
Growing veggie in container has several advantages and a few challenges compared to vegetables in the ground .
Container Advantages
These Brazilian Star Fish peppers grew well in a grow bag with caging. Aren’t they a pretty fruit?
Because you utilise a potting mix , vegetable maturate in containers be given not to have the soil - deport disease so common in Lycopersicon esculentum and other vegetable . you’re able to rank the container in the idealistic spot in your yard for Sunday , and one of the large advantages of container , is that anyone with a piffling external space can revel grow vegetables . The weed and grow bags we are using at the fair would count great on a balcony or deck . you could even usestraw bales to grow vegetable !
Container thoughtfulness
If you decide to grow vegetables in container , be sure to choose a container that is large enough to grow and endorse the industrial plant you need to get . Herbs , such as parsley or basil , can be uprise in fairly small containers while tomato plant require a larger pot . For myhome garden , I chose containers with a diameter of 18 inches or more . At the fair , we chose a variety of container sizes and all of them seem to be doing well . The University of Illinois has ahelpful charton which size of container to prefer for various vegetable .
A fair visitor checks out the tomatoes growing in containers at the MSHS Educational Display.
No matter what the size of you container , be sure to sum up appropriate caging and staking for the plant you desire to grow . All of our container at the fair have hardy cages to keep the tomatoes , capsicum and eggplants we grew upright .
Growing vegetable in container also ask more watering than those in the flat coat and making sure the potting soil has plenty of food . tot compost when you plant the vegetables is a good estimate and you may want to bestow additional nutrients during the growth season . I use compost teatime or diluted fish photographic emulsion on my container tomato .
Enter the Drawing
This year , we will be having a drawing off after the fair for visitor to our educational kiosk . Be certain to ratify up to deliver the goods a mythological container planting designed byHeidi HeilandofHeidi ’s GrowHaus , a $ 25Seed recoverer ExchangeGift Card , aBloem Bagz Pocket Planteror a copy of the book , Pot it , develop it , corrode it : Homegrown Produce from Pot to Panby Kathryn Hawkins . The drawing will be held Sept. 6 . You do n’t need to be present to win .
It ’s the last weekend — we hope to see you at the fair !
