Container vegetable gardening has become more commonplace in these times of lesser back yards and more dangers with our food supply. More individuals would like to cultivate some of their own fresh vegetables so that they can refrain from purchasing non-organic merchandise or having to pay the high costs of organic food. With the present incidence of breakouts of e. coli and salmonella among other things from food items like spinach and green onions, we are left thinking about whether or not any of the fresh foods we purchase is actually safe. The thing is, the food we consume is mass produced and mass processed. This simply means lots of hands are holding every single product we end up eating. Once you cultivate your own fruit and vegetables, you are aware of whose hands are pressing the food!
Needless to say, many of us do not have the room for large home gardens. A lot of us have extremely small back yards. Condo and apartment residents might have no space! This is where container vegetable gardening is extremely useful. Growing vegetables in pots means you can cultivate your own veggies on a patio or terrace, or possibly inside your home with the use of special grow lights. Because of container gardening, we are able to grow our own vegetables regardless of where we reside.
Several varieties of vegetables tend to be more suitable for container vegetable gardening than others. A few of the larger varieties will not do as well in pots. Case in point, corn is so big that an individual would need to make use of a huge, extremely large container to hold it. Big melons grow on lengthy vines and can put down several root systems; therefore they won’t prosper in containers. Large types of squash and tomatoes might be hard to grow in containers.
Several varieties do particularly well in containers. Spinach, lettuce, and various other leafy vegetables usually prosper in containers. Smaller types of tomatoes like plum tomatoes, salad tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and grape tomatoes are ideal for container vegetable gardening. Various kinds of bush peas and beans flourish in containers. If you utilize huge containers, it’s also possible to plant potatoes. It certainly is not challenging to accomplish this, plus they grow extremely well in this particular way. The reality is a good number of smaller types of vegetables will flourish perfectly in containers.
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The Watch Us Grow Team
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About Stephen Follett Company… Our company has its roots on a farm outside the Village of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, where in 1952 our founder, botanist and horticulturist Stephen Follett, began production of his newly developed liquid plant food concentrate Follett’s Watch Us Grow®.
He spent the previous decade experimenting with various compounds of fertilizers, trace elements and other organic and inorganic materials to find a formula that would foster healthier and better plant growth. He based his studies on the ancient idea of foliar feeding; the theory that plants can absorb nutrients through leaves, branches, stems, buds, fruits and even flowers as well as its root system. After years of trial and error, Mr. Follett perfected his gentle 8-8-8 liquid formula . . . a 256 to 1 concentrate of three major elements (nitrogen, phosphorus and potash) and five micronutrients (boron, copper, iron, manganese and zinc) plus his proprietary compound Fol-Ade® which contains eight ingredients that react on the elemental plant foods in the formula.
Since his death in 1992 at the age of 81, Mr. Follett’s grandson Phil Faustini has run the 50 year old family business. Few things have changed over the years. We’re still located on a farm a few miles from where the company started and the Watch Us Grow formula remains the same. We just don’t see any reason to tamper with something that works so darn well on everything — flowers, shrubs, trees, grasses, vegetables, fruits and house plants. Mr. Follett, known for his sense of humor, jokingly said in his later years, “why it works so well is my little secret, but I think plants grow up to get away from the stuff.” He did share his secret but only with his family. We’re glad he did. You will be, too.
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