How to Start Your Own Vegetable Container Garden Using Self-Watering Containers

Since I started apartment gardening, I’ve been using self-watering containers.

I make them using recycled materials, so they are inexpensive.

They also work really well.

Since I’m interested in showing you how to grow your own food in limited space, I want to show you how to start your own self-watering container garden.

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You don’t have much space or want to utilize a smaller outside space like your deck or patio.

And since getting your hands on 5-gallon containers is easy and inexpensive, anyone can use them and they fit nicely in most locations.

When is the perfect time to get started with your container garden?

Now. There is no such thing as the perfect time. There is only now. Here are some articles to get you started.

Self-Watering Container Basics

• How self-watering containers work
• What my balcony garden looked liked after going away for 10 days
• Is growing food in plastic containers safe?

Making Your Self-Watering Container Garden

• What you need to start your container garden
• Where to get containers for your container garden
• Why use two containers when making a self-watering container
• How to make a self-watering container
• Decorating your self-watering containers

Maintaining Your Self-Watering Container Garden

• Amending the soil
• Using a rock as a garden marker

That’s just the beginning.

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