We all have it in us to be a gardener it is one of the easiest hobbies that a person can have. We also don't need a large garden either just a small space where you can fit a few pots or containers will do, in fact even if you live in an apartment block and have a small patio outside your apartment even that will do.

Let me explain how you can even grow a few vegetables that you can enjoy even if you are quite a distance of the ground and in a large city.

The secret is containers and pots, by using containers and pots and planting at the right time of the year you can grow tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and garlic, even blueberries and even small apple trees.

Just think getting up one summer morning looking out of the window and seeing a bush full of juicy blueberries that you can pick and eat for breakfast, how fresh can that be, or getting home from work and picking your own potatoes for your supper,

The freshness will be sublime and I bet that you have never tasted better.

How about one Sunday afternoon and you go out and pick your very own tomatoes to go with your very own grown lettuce that you are going to eat for your tea, all this could be yours if you follow these simple little instructions. Let us take tomatoes first these are very simple to grow all you need for a full summer crop of small sweet cherry tomatoes are two 15inch hanging baskets.

Take the baskets and fill with good compost, you can buy compost from any good garden centre or hardware store. Once you have filled the baskets take three small tomato plants, again you buy these plants from your garden centre, or you can seed your own, what ever your choice you will not need more than three in each basket.

Once you have planted the tomato plants you will need to water them. Keep them indoors until all sign of frost has gone then hang them on a wall. You will need to water them every day and once a week feed them with a good tomato feed. That is all you have to do with them. Pick them when the fruit becomes red, at the end of the growing season if any are left and they have not gone red pick them and put them next to a ripe banana they will soon ripen.

Potatoes next, for a good crop of potatoes you will need a large container, or you can like I did this year buy yourself a potato grow bag, this is a bag that is 4ft long and 2ft high and has handles so that you can carry it. Again, you will need good compost and a bag of seed potatoes. This time there is a little bit more work

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