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Vegetable Container Gardening for Beginners

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The Spruce: Vegetable Container Gardening for Beginners

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Growing vegetables in containers can bring you both joy and bounty. There's a simple pleasure in biting into a tomato still warm from the sun—picked and eaten on the spot. You can grow just about any vegetable in a container, a practice that can save you lots of money buying produce at the grocery store. However, vegetable container gardening can be a frustrating endeavor if your plants don't thrive and produce. It helps to know that for larger plants to flourish, you may need a deeper container to hold about 12 inches of soil. For example, a 5-gallon container would work for tomatoes and squash but a smaller container is better for plants like lettuce, which has shallow roots. Following are more tips for growing vegetables in containers to help you and your plants get off to a good start....
 
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