About Pots & Soil
I'm Carsten. My garden is paved over, so everything I grow lives in a pot.
Nothing can go straight into the ground, so every plant I have sits in a container. I started Pots & Soil out of curiosity about how much of a real garden is possible that way, and the answer has been more than I expected.
So the site is built around the details that decide how a pot does: minimum container size in gallons, the varieties bred for containers, how many hours of direct sun a crop needs, how much water it wants, and what it looks like when something is going wrong. Some of it comes from my own pots, some from gardeners with a lot more experience than me, and some from reading the research until I understand it well enough to explain it simply.
Where the advice comes from
I'm not a professional horticulturist, and I don't garden from a wheelchair or with arthritis. The accessible gardening section is built from primary sources, including Arthritis Foundation and AARP guidance and ADA reach and height ranges, and from asking people who do garden seated to tell me where I have it wrong. That is why those guides lead with measurements rather than with my own experience.
How this pays for itself
Affiliate links, mostly Amazon. If you buy through one I earn a small commission and you pay the same price. Nobody pays to appear here, and no brand sees a review before it is published. If that ever changes, the page will say so at the top.
Corrections welcome
If something here is wrong, tell me and I will fix it and date the change. Photos of your pots are very welcome too.