Most people at Lemuria know that when I am not here, I am either reading or in my garden. I love being “in charge of” the gardening section at Lemuria. It mixes well with my Southern Fiction duty! Think Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle as well as her Bean Trees or Poisonwood Bible. This spring and summer I have decided to try my gardening hand at container grown vegetables, so I have planted tomatoes of all types, squash, and okra in terracotta pots. I do have some tiny cherry tomatoes appearing this week, but the verdict is still out on the others due to all the rain we had a few weeks ago. Now I have discovered a brand new book at Lemuria which I wish I had found in April: Organic Crops in Pots! The author, Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell, knows her stuff about growing veggies in containers! Picture anything that will hold dirt, and this book tells you how to do it! From tin buckets to plastic kitchen bowls or metal colanders to woven sacks and colorful shopping bags, anything can be grown, including herbs and fruits, as well as vegetables! Be creative! Let this book be a jump start for you to get excited about any type of container grown vegetables! -Nan
P.S. Also check out another container book of merit for flowers: Pots in the Garden by Ray Rogers!
-Nan
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