Gardening Tip: Came across these old photos from 2012 when I experimented with growing in pots. I used 5-gallon nursery pots scrounged from the dumpster at work, put them on bricks for good drainage, covered the planting holes with paper bags to keep the soil in, used Miracle Gro potting mix, bone meal and Algoflash fertilizer. I grew some awesome tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers that season - it was also the year of the HUGE drought, so that worked out well, too. This spot got full sun from about 8am until sunset. You really can grow a lot in a small space; the key is proper fertilization and water, water, water when using pots.
Left to Right: Cherry Tomato, Cucumber, Sweet Pepper, Sweet Pepper, Jalapeno Pepper.
Nice pics. We grew some of our best peppers in pots, they love lots of water. Our pots were were about 20 or 30 gallon ones. Early on when the plants were smaller we could grow green onions and lettuce around them and harvest as the plants got bigger.