Smaller Vegetables for Your Container Vegetable Garden

Think you can't grow a vegetable garden because you don't have enough land? Think again. There are so many new varieties of compact or baby vegetables available today that growing enough veggies to feed an army in containers right on your patio is possible. Apartment dwellers no longer have to suffer buying no-taste tomatoes at the corner grocery store. People with small yards don't have to spend an arm and a leg just to have healthy organic vegetables on their plates. In fact, even if you do have a large backyard, you can enjoy more of it by planting some of your favorite vegetables in containers that can be moved before starting that huge volleyball game.

Container gardening is nothing new but today's variety of compact vegetables is so huge that there are barely no types of vegetables that can't survive nicely in a pot. And just because these vegetables are small in size, doesn't mean they are small on taste. No sir, these babies taste just as good as their larger-sized cousins.

Looking for a little spice in your life? I haven't found a pepper plant, either sweet or hot that didn't grow well in a container. A new tiny pepper variety to try is Golden Baby Belle peppers - The plant grows only to about two feet high and gives forth the cutest little yellow skinned peppers you will ever see. These tasty treats are ready for picking when they are only an inch or two large. Great when used in salads or stuffed as appetizers.

Eggplant is another vegetable that does consistently well in containers but Fairy Tale eggplant has been developed to be a perfect fit for containers. They produce tiny marble colored (purple and white) eggplants that are only four to five inches long and about one inch wide that grow in clusters of six.

Cucumber vines and leaves taking over your yard? Not if you plant Little Leaf cucumbers. Little Leaf cucumber plants have leaves that are only half the size of regular cucumber plants making them perfect for a patio grown veggie.