I have a couple of containers I've started using for growing vegetables in. They aren't BIG containers so I don't harvest much, but I make the most of what I have for sure! One of the containers is just outside the kitchen window and currently has Scarlet Beans in it.
They are a bush bean variety and so the trellis was unnessessary but you live and learn eh? I planted some pole beans in there, which are growing right now :) Good job too as the bush beans gave me their last harvest I think:
Also in a container out in the side yard off the dining room is this 1/2 wine barrel. I blogged about it before but here are the plants growing in there. Only 1/2 the barrel is planted, bush beans on left, and mesclun on right. I have tomatoes to transplant in the back once they get to a decent transplanting size and I get something to train them up against :)
I love container gardening, so much easier than regular gardening, less watering and less bugs! I just need to get ontop of the succession planting and I'll be set :)
You are quite aggressive about putting two or three different plants in the same container. That will definitely save space and in the end we have a little bit of everything.... I just tried spinach, pak choy , choy sum, chive, parsley and chilies. Somehow chili doesn't like to share container. Its root ball is big!!
Happy Containeering!!
~ bangchik