How to grow vegetables in containers

Join now

Create a Yates account today!

Sign up to join the Yates Garden Club for monthly e-mails packed with seasonal inspiration, tips for success & exclusive promotions.

Plus if you’re a Garden Club member you can take part in the Yates Growing Community - a blog to share successes, get advice & win prizes in fun challenges along the way!

Sign In

Email Address *

Password *

Forgot password?

growing-vegetables-in-containers_1566200301338

Plants are grown in containers for many reasons. The increasing number of people who live in flats or home units must, by necessity, do their gardening on windowsills or balconies. Here is your guide to growing vegetables in containers. Ensure you use good quality potting mix, like Yates Premium Potting Mix and feed well with Yates Thrive Fish Blood & Bone Plant Food Concentrate to help boost growth and maintain healthy plants.

VEGETABLES	MOST SUITABLE VARIETIES	RECOMMENDED MIN, DEPTH OF CONTAINER
Cabbage	Sugarloaf	25 cm
Capsicum	All	40 cm
Carrot	Baby	25 cm
	Chantenay	25 cm
Chilli	Burke’s Backyard Thai	25 cm
Cress	Curled Cress	10 cm
Cucumber	Lebanese	40 cm
Eggplant	All	40 cm
Herbs	Many types	20 cm
Lettuce	Cos	25 cm
	Mignonette	25 cm
	Buttercrunch	25 cm
Onion	Spring or Straight Leaf	20 cm
Pumpkin	Golden Nugget	30 cm
Radish	All	20 cm
Rocket	All	30 cm
Silver beet	Fordhook Giant	25 cm
	Compact	25 cm
Tomato	Small Fry	30 cm
	Tiny Tim	30 cm
	Roma	30 cm
Zucchini	Blackjack	40 cm
	Greyzini	40 cm
	Lebanese	40 cm