VEGETABLE-- TYPE OF CONTAINER-- RECOMMENDED VARIETIES:
 
Beans, Snap: 5 gal. Windowbox-  Bush types such as blue lake, contender, and 
montpellier
 
Beans, Lima:  5 gal. Windowbox- White Dixie Wonder
 
Beets: 5 gal. Windowbox Early Wonder, Detroit Dark Red
 
Broccoli:  1 plant/5 gal. pot 
3 plants/15 gal. tub Super Blend, Italian Green Sprouting
 
Brussels Sprouts:  1 plant/5 gal. pot
2 plants/15 gal. tub Evesham
 
Cabbage: 1 plant/5 gal. pot
3 plants/15 gal. tub Discovery
 
Chinese Cabbage: 1 plant/5 gal. pot
3 plants/15 gal. tub  Michihli
 
Carrot: 5 gal. Windowbox at least 12" deep  
Short & Sweet, Danvers Half Long, Tiny Sweet, Baby Finger Nantes, Goldenhart, 
Little Finger, Royal or Red Cored Chantenay, Ox Hart, Baby Finger
 
Cucumber: 1 plant/gal. pot 
Patio Pik, Spacemaster, Pot Luck, Bush Whopper, Bush Champion, Burpee Hybrid, 
Salad Bush, Parks Burpless Bush, Burpless Early Pik 
Eggplant 3 gal. pot Slim Jim, Ichiban, Black Beauty, Modern Midget, Mission 
Bell, Small Ruffled Red, Thai Green, Bambino
 
Garlic: 8-inch deep container 
Most Varieties
 
Lettuce: 5 gal. Windowbox 
Salad Bowl, Ruby, Grand Rapids, Oak Leaf, Buttercrunch, Dark Green Boston, 
Little Gem, Bibb
 
Onion:  5 gal. Windowbox  
White Sweet Spanish, Yellow Sweet Spanish
 
Pepper: 1 plant/2 gal. pot 5 plants/15 gal. tub 
Sweet Banana, Yolo Wonder, Long Red Cayenne, Bell Boy, Keystone Resistant, 
California Wonder, New Ace, Red Cherry, Long Red Cayenne, Jalapeno, Thai Hot
 
Radish: 5 gal. Windowbox 
Cherry Belle, Icicle, Champion, Scarlet Globe
 
Spinach:  5 gal. Windowbox Dark Green Bloomsdale, Melody, America, Avon Hybrid
 
Squash:  2 gal. pot  
Scallopini, Baby Crookneck, Creamy, Golden Nugget, Gold Rush, Zucchini (most 
varieties)
 
Tomatoes: Bushel baskets5 gal. pots 
Tiny Tim, Small Fry, Sweet 100, Patio, Burpee's Pixie, Toy Boy, Early Girl, 
Better Boy VFN, Pixie, Red Robin, Sugar Lump, Tumblin' Tom (hanging baskets)


source: ContainerGardening.com 
