Seed companies realize that homeowners have less and less space to devote to vegetable gardens. Every year they come out with new vegetable plant varieties suitable for growing in small spaces and vegetable container gardens.
Be on the look out for key words like: bush, compact, and space saver. Here are some vegetable plant varieties to get your vegetable container garden growing.
- Cucumbers: Salad Bush Hybrid, Spacemaster, Bush Pickle
- Eggplant: Bambino, Slim Jim
- Green Beans: (Pole beans give a higher yield in a small footprint) Blue Lake, Kentucky Wonder, French Dwarf
- Green Onions: Beltsville Bunching, Crysal Wax, Evergreen Bunching
- Leaf Lettuce: Buttercrunch, Salad Bowl, Bibb
- Peppers: Frigitello, Cubanelle, Sweet Banana, Apple (Hot) Red Cherry, Jalapeno, Robustini
- Radishes: Cherry Belle, Scarlet Globe, (White) Icicle
- Squash: Ronde de Nice, Gold Rush
- Tomatoes: Patio, Pixie, Tiny Tim, Saladette, Toy Boy, Spring Giant, Tumbling Tom, Small Fry
