I haven’t tried that kind, but we grew tomatoes in pots last year and it worked beautifully. We were pulling cherry tomatoes off the plants by the dozen.
We do container gardens too. This year we’re up to five containers, all along one side of the house. We’re growing broccoli, onion, garlic, strawberries, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, carrots, zucchini, beets, bell peppers, eggplant and herbs. The herbs we’re trying are basil, oregano, chives, thyme, peppermint, rosemary, dill, stevia, cilantro and parsley.
I also planted some annuals in pots, added hyssop to my butterfly garden, and plan to start a bed of lavender along one side of our yard.
In the vegetable patch, there will be:
Hungarian Wax Peppers
Tomatoes
radishes
green onions
In the spice planters there will be:
peppermint
spearmint
basil
thyme
parsely
sage
In the flower garden there is:
lobelia
pansies
a geranium
petunias
rose moss
allyssum
agertum
dianthus
bleeding hearts
snow in summer
viola
forget-me-nots
3 fushias
We divide the flower beds by color. The heart bed gets red, pink. salmon, and white flowers. The foot bed gets white flowers. The Illinois bed gets purple flowers, and the Wisconsin bed bluish violet and white flowers. The Illinois and Wisconsin beds are shaped like mirror images of the states and border each other; this was not intentional. The flower beds are bordered with low limestone walls and the vegetable garden is a raised bed surrounded by timbers.
Bell Pepper!
I wanted to make some fajitas lastweek, but had to make do with a bag of frozen mixed bell peppers. The fresh bells were $3.99 a pound! And I wanted all the different colors.
So, I’m ending my 'No More Gardens Until We Get A Non Squirrel Infested Yard" strike.
My mother claims that putting dryer sheets around your plants will keep pests off them–deer, squirrels, whatever. Dunno if it really works, haven’t tried it, none of my plants are bearing fruit yet.