Looking at my pictures you may be wondering why I plant everything in containers when I have that nice big piece of dirt just past the concrete patio. After all, planting in the ground conserves and retains water, gives plants more root-growing room, and in general leads to healthier, stronger plants. My reasons are three-fold:
- I rent, and when it comes time to move, it’s much easier to take my plants with me if I don’t have to dig them out of the ground
- I am not the first to rent, which means I have absolutely no idea what may or may not have been poured into the ground by previous tenants
- My apartment is built on landfill and no matter how good the topsoil is that they imported, there’s no way to know what lies beneath, and with food crops, I’d just rather not risk it