Gotta great deal, NOW WHAT???

I just bought 4 large $10 plastic pots at a local nursery for $2 each. I have been looking for a good deal like this so I could have pots to put my tomatoes in this summer. (I have lots of deer and have too many garden ventures going on to start a fenced in veggie garden.)

So since I am pretty new at container gardening -- a couple questions:

1) Can I put a tomatoe plant and a bush bean plant in the same large container?

2) Could I also add some trailing type annual flowers to this "veggie arrangement" to cover up the ugly white plastic containers? (any suggestions?)

THANKS!! :)

i would go with the trailing annual rather than the bush bean. if it's the pot size i'm thinking of, the bush bean and tomato plant might get to big for each other.

The pot is a 1 1/2 ft. diameter. and about the same deep.

I agree with farmgirl. The bean and the tomato would probably get pretty tangled in one another as they are both viney type plants, and should probably not be potted in the same pot. One might even choke the other out. Perhaps some lobelia, nasturtium, or even some creeping thyme would be low enough to the soil so as not to interfere with the tomato or bean and would act as some great creeping cover for the pot. Nasturtiums would keep any pesky bunnies away from the pots if they are outside.

This message was edited Thursday, Jan 23rd 4:10 PM

do some research on companion planting. some plants do better with others. I know that basil(i prefer the genovese) grows good with tomatoes go figure.