Creative Container Gardening

Almost 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.

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."