Here are some tips to get you going on your planting.
1. No-Space Plants: Plant in pots. Tomatoes, lettuce, you name it. Tomatoes can be staked and then water until the fruit appears. Mixing deodorized sheep manure in will keep the fruit coming. The, when it's time for frost you can bring them in for another couple of months. Lettuce leaves can be harvested without plucking the plant so you can have lettuce for a while too.
2. No-Space Composting: Just take a plastic container with a snap lid ( 2' X 2' X 1' ) and add soil. Now take some shredded newspaper and mix it in with the dirt. Now add some red worms (you gardening store sells them). Over the weeks add coffee grounds and some vegetable matter. About once a month open the lid, shine a light on the dirt to make the worms go to the bottom and scoop out the beautiful soil.
3. No-Space Potatoes: Get 4 old tires. Fill the first one with earth and put in seed potatoes. Water and then fill with earth to the brim. When the plants appear place second tire and fill to the rim just letting the potato plants peek over. Repeat with the third and fourth. Then just leave until the middle of August. Then take off each tire and collect the potatoes.
A lack of space shouldn't prevent you from getting some great produce from a garden. Just look at what you want and think in miniature.
Great tips there, thank you! I especially like the composting one. I know personally the thought of having a huge compost pile put me off but I'd love to have the benefits of composting at the same time. That sounds like an excellent solution.
Another good reason to use pots is if your soil is substandard. It can be much simpler and less work to plant in a pot than try bring it up to scratch enough to give you a decent yield. Plus if you move, you can take them with you!
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