Roots and All - Gardening Podcast Episode 248: The Container Victory Garden
This episode I’m speaking with author and expert gardener Maggie Stuckey about growing food in containers. We talk about growing a container garden of vegetabhttps://rootsandall.co.uk/podcast/episode-52-grow-fruit-vegetables-in-pots-with-aaron-bertelsen/les, herbs, and edible flowers and the inspirational history of wartime Victory Gardens and their legacy for today’s gardeners.
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What We Talk About
Victory gardens
Growing food in containers
With container space at a premium, how can you choose what to grow?
Essential equipment
Cool season and warm season plants
Maggie’s neat trick for planting garlic cloves
Root vegetables in containers
Should you try to focus on one type of plant or can you grow a mixture of things?
Succession planting
About Maggie Stuckey
Bestselling author Maggie Stuckey is an expert in the art of growing good things to eat in containers. For more than twenty years, Maggie has been enjoying vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers grown in her own container garden — and inspiring others to transform even the tiniest spaces into vibrant personal foodways.
In her book The Container Victory Garden, Maggie shares practical and comprehensive tips and techniques for container gardening alongside the rich history of the original wartime Victory Gardens, which date back to 1917.
Links
The Container Victory Garden: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries by Maggie Stuckey - HarperCollins Focus, April 2023
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