Container Selection

COMMENTARY

• Selecting containers that won’t leach chemicals into your edibles
• Container size needs to match mature size of the plant
• Ensure container drainage and what its draining onto
• Cardboard boxes as starter container

Planting your container garden

COMMENTARY

• Find a local planting calendar
  • Farmer Greg’s PlantingCalendar.org for Arizona desert regions.
• Start from seed, plant starters or both
  • Look for locally grown plant starters
• How to Harden Off a plant

Watering Container Gardens

COMMENTARY

• Handeling Hydrophobic soils
• Water when dry top few inches dry out
• Add a little fertilizer each watering as minerals are leached out with each watering

EVENT

• Load up on local seeds at the annual Great American Seed Up