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GARDENING is possible
anywhere, and more and more
people are growing some food in
containers according to a recent
survey,
Examples include:
¢ An entire salad garden — in
one container; :
¢ Pounds of potatoes from a’
plastic trash barrel; ;
* Two pounds of potatoes from
an ll-inch pot;
¢ Thirty pounds of tomatoes
from one container plant;
¢ Beans growing in’ a bushel
basket;
® Vining crops srowing in boxes
with trellises; n
- @ Chives,.” onions and | ‘garlic
growing all year in eight-inch pots.
Statistics show that a large per-
_ centage of households grew some
vegetables in containers, on patios,
balconies and roofs, window
boxes, along with flowers or in.
photo Tom Burley border Plantings. :

KNEE-DEEP in bedding plants, Bey Campbell ‘searches the plant selection thoroughly for nemisia at a North

Shore garden shop. Although most local gardens have already been planted, garden centres are still recording
‘a brisk business.

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