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Three things change when vegetables move into pots: roots get less room, soil dries in hours, and you can chase the sun. Everything in this hub is written around those three facts.
Last guide added: Potatoes, 1 Aug 2026
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Aug 2026 12 min
Highest yield per pot on this site. Which varieties, 10-gallon minimum, and the one hilling mistake that halves your harvest.
10 gal · Full sun · 90 days Read
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Jul 2026 13 min
Patio Princess, Bush Early Girl, Roma. Not Brandywine. Watering that prevents blossom-end rot, and when to stop feeding.
5 gal · 6–8 h sun · 65 days Read
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Jun 2026 11 min
Spacemaster, Bush Champion, or Salad Bush. A 5-gallon minimum and why a leaning trellis snaps stems in August wind.
5 gal · Full sun · 55 days Read
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May 2026 12 min
Ranked by ease and yield. What fits in a 5-gallon bucket, what needs two, and what's a Pinterest fantasy.
5 gal · Mixed Read
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Mar 2026 8 min
A 6-inch-deep tray is enough. Sow every two weeks, shade it in July, and it pays for the seed packet ten times over.
6 in deep · Part shade · 30 days Read
Every guide here names varieties bred for containers and gives a minimum size in gallons — so the list is sorted by what actually earns its pot, not by what photographs well.
A raised bed buffers your mistakes. A 5-gallon pot doesn't. Three rules cover most of it: size up (the chart is the minimum, not the target), feed little and often (nutrients wash out with every watering), and mulch the surface so July doesn't cook the roots.
Not tomatoes. Lettuce, bush beans, radish and chard forgive nearly everything and crop within six weeks. Tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes are the big wins of year two — they reward you once you've learned how fast a pot dries.
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