Pacific Northwest Gardening: Vege Gardens in the Puget Sound area, 1 by katie59

katie59 wrote:
Carol - thanks for posting. I'll have to read In Defense of Food, clearly. Thanks for the reccomendation, both of you.

Here's a picture of a little "potager" I put together for my elderly folks so they could have fresh tomatoes in the summer. One thing I'd add is that when you're gardening in close quarters like this, you should plant plants that like the same food. I put scarlet runner beans up the middle and tomatoes around the outside. My dad was great about feeding the tomatoes with traditional nitrogen-heavy tomato food. But beans fix their own nitrogen and so don't need any extra. You can see here that the beans just went leaf-crazy. Really pretty, but no beans.

Another thing this illustrates is that growing things up can be easier on your back and give you more gardening area. There are hanging tomato planters, as well:

http://www.gardeners.com/Gardener s Revolution Planter/PotsP...

Kathy