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Container gardening: What to know about how to grow vegetables and herbs in containers

Container gardening can mean using small containers, raised beds or just bags of dirt.
Container gardening can mean using small containers, raised beds or just bags of dirt. Jodie Valade

Gardening for a bargain

Container gardening allows for gardeners to have more flexibility than traditional gardens. Plants can be raised or lowered, moved into sunny or shady areas, and protected from wildlife.

Here is the best advice from Mecklenburg Extension Master Gardener Volunteers for how to create your own container garden.

This story was originally published July 20, 2022 at 6:00 AM.

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The Charlotte Observer
Jodie Valade is a former Planning and Enterprise Editor at The Charlotte Observer. She has also worked at WFAE as a digital editor, and freelanced for publications such as The Athletic, The Washington Post and The New York Times. She was a longtime, award-winning sports features and enterprise reporter at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. She also worked at The Dallas Morning News covering the Dallas Mavericks — where she became Mark Cuban’s lifelong email pen pal — and at The Kansas City Star. Support my work with a digital subscription
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