I used to have time to have a rather nice sized vegetable garden, but this summer I decided to try planters instead of tilling the ground and dealing with all of the other aspects of an outdoor garden.
Yesterday we were able to harvest our first tomatoes from the one outdoor planter -- they were just as sweet and amazing tasting as the ones grown from the traditional garden. My pepper plants also in outdoor planters are not quite ready yet, but should be in a few days.
I've also planted several herbs in an outside window box. I plan to move them into indoor planters when the weather gets too cold for them to be outside. That way I'll have year round access to fresh basil, dill, oregano and cilantro. The only down side to planting in containers is you do have to be much more diligent about watering, but the ease in being able to protect your plants if a severe storm rolls in and the extremely reduced weeding more than makes up for that.
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