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Crop Type and Variety
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Potting Setup
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Yield (does not include any fruits lost to disease or damage)
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Notes
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Peppers
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Bell Pepper
(Carnival Mix and California
Wonder)
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4 plants per square
6.5 gallon container
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33
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Good yield, seems to
take to crowding well, 20% crop loss due to blossom end rot
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Banana Sweet Pepper
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7 plants in a long 7
gallon window planter
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54
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Very high yielding
plants… these just keep producing!
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Tomatoes
Tomatoes
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Sweet 100 Cherry
Tomato
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2 plants in a 7
gallon container
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185
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Excellent flavor,
continuous production right up to frost
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Jellybean Grape
Tomato
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2 plants in a 6
gallon container
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58
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Good flavor,
moderate yield in this growing condition, 20% loss due to high winds knocking
immature fruit from plant
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Yellow Pear Tomato
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3 plants in a 12
gallon flexible plastic tub
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255
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Extremely high
yield, mediocre flavor with mealy texture
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Green Zebra Tomato
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2 plants in a 12
gallon flexible plastic tub
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61
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High yielding plants
with large clusters of fruit, amazing flavor when picked yellow, 25-30% loss
due to blossom end rot early in season
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Black Krim
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2 plants in a 12
gallon flexible plastic tub
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43
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Great flavor and
texture, good yield, 20% loss due to blossom end rot
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Brandywine
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1 plant in a 12
gallon flexible plastic tub (with one Evergreen tomato plant)
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7
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Incredible flavor
(best of the garden this year) but not high yielding. Could have been
crowded.
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Evergreen Tomato
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1 plant in a 12
gallon flexible plastic tub (with one Brandywine
tomato plant)
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5
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Great flavor (sweeter
than Green Zebra), low yield
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Tomatillos (Giant)
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2 plants in a square
6.5 gallon container
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39
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Healthy plants, good
yield, but I will stick to the smaller tomatillos for container gardens
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Eggplant
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Round White Eggplant
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2 plants in a square
6.5 gallon container
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18
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Very good yield in
likely crowded plants, excellent flavor and texture, last batch of fruits in
early fall turned yellow when ripe and were inedible due to bitterness
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Black Beauty
Eggplant
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1 plant in a square
6.5 gallon container with 1 round white and 1 long eggplant)
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4
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Amazing that we got
anything from this highly crowded plant.
Yielded 4 very large (approx. 1.5 pound) eggplants! Great flavor and
texture.
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Long Purple Eggplant
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1 plant in a square
6.5 gallon container with 1 round white and 1 long Black Beauty)
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14
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Good yield, also
very crowded. Seems perfect for a container. Very pretty plant.
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Okra
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Red Okra (Burgundy)
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4 plants in one 6.5
gallon square container
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37 pods
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Attractive plants,
very large and healthy, but not high yielding enough at any one time.
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Green Okra (Clemson
Spineless)
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4 plants in one 6.5
gallon square container
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21 pods
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Attractive plants,
very large and healthy, but not high yielding enough at any one time.
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Cucumber
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Straight 8 Cucumber
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7 plants in one 12
gallon flexible tub (w/ 3 Lemon Cucumber plants)
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11
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Delicious and high yielding, but plant with dozens of immature
fruits was killed by powdery mildew in late July
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Lemon Cucumber
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3 plants in one 12
gallon flexible tub (w/ 7 straight 8 plants)
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14
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Another very high
yielding plant, good flavor, pick before they turn too dark yellow or they
will be tough. Also killed by powdery mildew in late July.
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Miscellaneous Crops
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Rainbow Swiss Chard
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5 plants in one 6.5
gallon square container
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5 large meals
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Delicious, highly
productive cooking green well suited to containers. Leave the center leaves
when you cut and it will continue to grow back until it bolts in late summer.
Then, plant again in same container for a fall crop, as it likes the cool
weather.
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Red Potatoes
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3 plants in 7 gallon
nursery pot
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About 2 pounds
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A fun experiment,
and delicious flavor, but they take up a lot of room for the yield.
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Detroit Red Beets
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Various small
planters
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6 medium sized beets
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These were planted
in very small containers as they became available, good flavor, would be well
suited to dedicated containers for a better yield.
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Zucchini
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1 plant in a 6.5
gallon square container
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1
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Delicious fruit,
enormous plant (so plan on it needing some space) but killed by powdery
mildew soon after it bloomed.
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Broccoli (major
hybrid)
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3 plants in a 6.5
gallon square container
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3 large crowns
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Delicate, sweet, and
tender flavor. Not a great yield to space invested ratio, as the crowns don’t
grow back (you do get smaller side shoots though)
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