Patio Container Vegetable Garden
A 6×2 container lineup for a sunny patio: cherry tomato, peppers, compact cucumber, and salad on the side.
About This Template
Arranged like pots along a sunny patio wall, this layout proves a paved corner can feed you all summer. The heavy producers — a cherry tomato, two peppers, and an eggplant — take the back line in the biggest containers, with a cucumber given double width to sprawl or climb a balcony rail. The front line stays low: basil beside the tomato (they share water needs and a kitchen destiny), a head of lettuce, and a block of parsley and chives that tolerates the light shade cast by the fruiting plants behind. Every plant here is proven in 30–40 cm pots, so the layout translates directly to real containers.
Benefits
- 1Every crop here thrives in a 30–40 cm pot — no bed required
- 2Cherry tomatoes and peppers produce for months from a single plant
- 3Herbs sit at the front within arm's reach of the kitchen door
- 4Containers warm up faster than beds, buying you an earlier start
- 5The whole garden can move with the sun — or with you
Growing Tips
- 1Containers dry out fast: check daily, water when the top 2 cm is dry
- 2Feed weekly with liquid fertilizer once the first fruits set
- 3Give the cucumber a rail or string to climb and it will double its yield
- 4Use pots of at least 10 liters for tomato, eggplant, and cucumber
Included Plants (9)
Cherry Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
Spacing: 45 cm · 18 in
Jalapeno Pepper
Capsicum annuum
Spacing: 40 cm · 16 in
Bell Pepper
Capsicum annuum
Spacing: 45 cm · 18 in
Eggplant
Solanum melongena
Spacing: 60 cm · 24 in
Cucumber
Cucumis sativus
Spacing: 60 cm · 24 in
Basil
Ocimum basilicum
Spacing: 25 cm · 10 in
Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
Spacing: 25 cm · 10 in
Parsley×2
Petroselinum crispum
Spacing: 20 cm · 8 in
Chives×2
Allium schoenoprasum
Spacing: 15 cm · 6 in
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