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Creative Container Gardening - wicker basket, burlap bag, and wash tub plantersAlmost anything can be used for growing veggies when you have limited space, or in my case, need the beds raised up a bit off the ground. For potatoes, you can use burlap feed bags, wicker laundry baskets, or anything with good drainage and room to "hill-up" around the growing plants as they get taller. Peas do nicely in an old wash tub. Later, I'll add strings for them to climb.

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Bonus Tip: The black plastic mesh w/rocks on top is my way of keeping the chipmunks from devouring everything I plant.' When sprouts appear, I remove the mesh and surround the little plants with rocks until they are big enough to fight for themselves :)

"Necessity is the mother of invention", or as I always say, "Mothers are the inventors of necessities."

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June 20, 20130 found this helpful

Nice pictures, very helpful! Also like the idea of peas in a container, I wonder if this would work for pole beans too?

We're moving house in a few months and so my husband wasn't inclined to plant the veg patch this year. So I thought I'd do some on a small scale using pots and found things (LOVE the wicker basket idea, wow!).

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Your idea about strings for the peas is inspiring and now I think I'll make a peas pot and a teepee pot for the beans.

I've got salad greens in a window box and cherry tomatoes in several hanging baskets-now I'm going to have peas, potatoes (rescued from where they've sprouted in the compost heap), and beans. Thank-you!

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