Container & Community Growing

The question isn’t “what should I grow?” It’s “what will actually work in the pot I’ve got, or the one I’m about to buy?” Most beginner growing advice works backwards: it picks a crop first and mentions the container as an afterthought. That’s how people end up with a radish that’s forked and stunted, or…

My first container garden was three pots on a rented balcony and a lot of guesswork. I killed things. I overwatered, bought the wrong soil, and put a tomato in a pot that was genuinely too small to sustain it. What I learned from that is that balcony growing works — it works really well…