5 Container Garden Options
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
For you apartment gardeners, here are 5 different options for growing in containers to absolutely maximize your limited space.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast everyone. Kevin here and we're hanging out |
| 0:17.8 | on what I'm pretending is my balcony today because this is a episode about small space container options. |
| 0:26.0 | So while I have this really long side porch, for today we're pretending it's a balcony and let's discuss rapid fire five different options that you can use to |
| 0:35.6 | maximize your growing space in these smaller container or balcony apartment |
| 0:41.2 | style gardens. Now the first one is going to be the basic rectangular |
| 0:45.7 | thin planter. |
| 0:47.1 | When I say thin, I mean, maybe they're about six inches deep. |
| 0:50.7 | Oh, there's a squirrel on my roof right now. |
| 0:52.6 | Look at that. |
| 0:53.7 | Wow, these guys are so mobile. |
| 0:56.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:57.0 | Anyway, sorry for that interlude, but we have one of these. |
| 1:00.2 | It's really nice. |
| 1:01.0 | It's like maybe 24 to 36 inches long, but it's really nice it's like maybe 24 to 36 inches long but it's six inches deep and |
| 1:06.3 | six inch depth to the actual container itself so it's very thin which means you |
| 1:11.1 | can place it on a ledge you can place it on a little very, |
| 1:15.0 | very nice and you can place it on a little balcony flat railing. |
| 1:17.0 | Very, very nice, and really all you do here is |
| 1:20.0 | you use your lettuces, your leafy greens, your herbs. |
| 1:23.2 | You can even do root crops like a Parisian-style carrot or any sort of |
| 1:26.7 | Cherry Bell-style radish. |
| 1:28.7 | Just anything that doesn't go super deep, because remember, |
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