| ... we're not going to get rain until late this afternoon, so now might be a good time to get into the garden. last week our home and garden expert larry pharr showed us how to, to create a container garden for the season. well, this week, he's showing us what flowers and vegetables you can plant in that garden. >> that's right. we are talking about container gardening today and what to actually plant in those containers. let's start out with the vegetables. if you want peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, you can do all those in the container, plus, bush crops like bush zucchini, tomatoes, only plant one of those for a container. have a container that's at least 14 or more inches across. the bigger, the better. only one plant per container, but if you are growing herbs, same thing, grow them in sun, but you can put more than one plant in that container. what about if you have got shady conditions? here's something different. start out with the hosta and the coral bells. both of these are perennials, and usually plant it directly in the garden, put those in your containers, dig them out, and then plant them in your garden. i also like to mix things like the indoor ferns, the indoor filadendrum. and you can mix indoor plans. this combination, i will use the tuberous begonias in orange and yellow, and some orange imparish, and we have things that will hang over the side, but a different look for the shady conditions, and now down to the sun, we will continue with some perennials, this is asedum, and we're going to mix that with the black velvet petunia and some other petunia, and we'll mix the grasses in there, and the mexican grass works really well, and the fountain grass, and then we're going to mix a succulent in there. they are very hot right now, and all of that, for some condition so there you go. some tips to make your containers look really great. ... |