Finally, container vegetable gardening requires frequent watering.  Their root system would require more water and will expand as the season goes on and the plants grow.  Check your containers daily to make sure they have enough water.

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You’ll be happy to hear the answer is absolutely yes!

Rocket is incredibly easy to grow.  And the great thing is, it grows fast.  Rocket grows from seed and is edible within 5-6 weeks.

You can plant rocket in a variety of ways.

First find the container you want to use.  Depending on what container you go for you can do different arrangements of how the rocket grows. 

With rectangular shaped containers you can plant in rows.  The great thing about rows with rocket is that you can plant one row, then once that has started, a week or so later, you plant another row. 

With this method there is continually fresh rocket growing in circulation.  I wasn’t so smart the first time I planted rocket and didn’t do that.  But with experience, you learn!

If you have a rounded container you can again plant in sections as you like.  Although you do want a fair few plants growing at once to have enough leaves to pick for eating.

Give your seeds a little space between themselves when planting.  One to two inches is enough. 

Don’t plant your seeds too deep – less than 1 centimeter is fine and water well once planted. 

You will find your rocket will be sprouting within three to five days.  Then watch the speed at which it grows!

Within 5-6 weeks your rocket will be ready for eating.

Once you get to taste your own rocket from your container vegetable gardening efforts, you will find it tastes much better and stronger than that in the shop. 

Also it is such a joy to pick the rocket as and when you need instead of having bags of rocket in the fridge that you have to eat before it goes soggy.

Container vegetable gardening is a great way to grow rocket that is great tasting and saves you time and money from buying shop bought rocket.

Best of luck for your container vegetable gardening.

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Some people have these gardens in their sunroom, in the kitchen window, or even in the window of a spare bedroom. Others utilize a closet space to grow plants by using a grow light.

Another major benefit of container gardening is the ability to move plants if you need to. If you’re growing your plants outdoors and bad weather comes, you can bring them inside where they’ll be safe. If your vegetables are getting too little sun or too much, you can easily move their containers to a better location. And you can even move your plants on a whim if you decide they’d look better elsewhere.

Vegetables grown in containers don’t have the same issues with diseases that traditionally-grown plants have. Although some container-grown plants do get diseases, it is far less likely than it would be if those plants were grown directly in the soil. Potting soil is generally free of disease-causing organisms, so your plants will be safer.

It’s easier to feed your vegetables when they’re in a container. You can make sure that the fertilizer you put in with the plants will get to them. When you use fertilizer on plants in traditional gardens, often it will end up going to other plants or just drain away. When the plants are in containers, this is not as likely to happen.

You do have to remember that because there is less soil, the fertilizer may drain out much faster. So you need to remember that the frequency of fertilizing will be increased as opposed to what you would do in an outdoor vegetable garden. But on the plus side, plants will be able to use more of the fertilizer you apply because it is less likely to wash away.

You’ll also be able to extend the growing season of your vegetables when you have them all in containers. You can wrap the pots that your plants are in with blankets or other materials for insulation that will help keep them warm. This way you can easily start plants inside and then move them outside when it gets a bit warmer. The right use of insulation can allow you to keep growing your vegetables outside even after the first frost. Also, you can easily bring the plants inside if it gets too cold for them to be outside, even if they are well insulated.

Of course one great benefit of using container vegetable gardens is that it makes gardening easy and accessible for everyone. People who are dealing with disabilities often find that it is much easier to go with a container garden, since they can put the plants where they can get to them easily. Those who are in wheelchairs often find that putting their plants on low tables makes it easier to get to them. Even those who are elderly, who find it hard to work in a traditional garden, can enjoy container gardening. Young children will also enjoy container gardening because it takes a lot of the work out of traditional vegetable gardening, such as removing weeds, and less adult supervision is required.

If your space is limited for vegetable gardening in a traditional landscape, then using pots instead is a great alternative to allow you to enjoy your plants.

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