{"id":10495,"date":"2009-08-01T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=10495"},"modified":"2009-07-31T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T16:48:23","slug":"container-gardening-ideal-for-city-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/container-gardening-ideal-for-city-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Container Gardening Ideal for City Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"container gardening\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/container-gardening-ideal-for-city-living\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tomato-plant-gardening2.jpg\" alt=\"tomato plant gardening\" width=\"200\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve always dreamt of owning a house one day and having a backyard full of vegetables that I could pick from to make dinner each night.\u00a0I&#8217;ve since ended up settling down in Brooklyn with no yard to speak of and felt the dream fade away, or so I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Container gardening has become a growing trend and a great way to grow fresh produce at home that hasn&#8217;t traveled over 1,500 miles or been sprayed with all types of <a title=\"organic produce\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/an-argument-for-organic-cleanest-and-dirtiest-produce-items\/\" target=\"_self\">pesticides and herbicides<\/a>. I started small with some herbs, tomato plants and jalapenos.\u00a0Not feeling quite confident, as I don&#8217;t have the greenest thumb, I thought it was a great start I could build off of each year once my first crops were produced.\u00a0\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Getting started is simple!<\/p>\n<p>The four things you will want to get yourself are some containers, soil, seeds and of course water from your local hardware store or nursery.\u00a0Make sure to\u00a0get a container large enough based on what you plan on growing; I found my local nursery very helpful in picking mine out.\u00a0You will also want to check\u00a0on\u00a0what is in season, as all produce have their own times of the year for harvest. If this is your first time trying container gardening like me, keep it simple, some produce can be more temperamental than others to grow and you want it to be easy and fun.<\/p>\n<p>My first tomato just arrived on the vine this week and should be\u00a0ready\u00a0to be picked very shortly.\u00a0I can&#8217;t wait\u00a0to\u00a0make a salad with my <a title=\"garden salad recipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/fresh-cucumber-and-tomato-salad\/\" target=\"_self\">fresh vegetables<\/a> I have grown on my own, giving my body wholesome, <a title=\"healthy recipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/\" target=\"_self\">nutritious food<\/a> that I didn&#8217;t have to go out to the store and buy.\u00a0So, whether you have a big yard, small yard, window sill or any form of outdoor space, try growing some produce of your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Container gardening has become a growing trend and a great way to grow fresh produce at home that hasn&#8217;t traveled over 1,500 miles or been sprayed with all types of pesticides and herbicides.  <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/container-gardening-ideal-for-city-living\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[3187,345,29,242],"class_list":["post-10495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-gardening","tag-healthy-eating","tag-nutrition","tag-vegetables"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10495"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10567,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495\/revisions\/10567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}