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I am finding some good prices for containers right now - Lowes and Home Depot have sales on. Got great pots for cheap from Lowes yesterday and just bought on line to pick up at Home Depot tomorrow window boxes that are 7.88 inches deep and 24 inches long for $6.97 each - they have the drainer pan attached underneath. Got two and will transplant the lettuce from paper cups into these planters and put them on the deck. Two of them will hold a lot of lettuce.

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That's excellent! Another advantage to container gardening is not having to stoop down as much, which is a blessing to those of us with old knee injuries (or even just old knees!). With containers on the elevated deck, slugs are never a problem, either.

Next year, we're definitely going to have to grow some lettuce and other greens after our unexpected success with our years-old basil seeds. What a wonderful surprise that was!