Why planter boxes for container gardening?
Because the ordinary garden-variety backyard garden (pun intended) can become a nuisance rather than a pleasure if one’s not careful. Small is fun. Big becomes work. Let me explain. The conventional backyard vegetable/flower garden is planned and begun in the spring. Usually too big to easily manage and with too little thought as to how much work will be entailed later on. It’s usually muddy or dirty. Hands, shoes clothes all get filthy and take a beating. Your arthritic knees, hips and shoulders all ache from the bending, lifting, digging, stooping and weeding. It’s an expensive investment for all those hoes, rakes, hoses, shovels, fertilizers and possibly even a mechanical tiller that may need purchasing. One might even poison one’s self with pesticides or herbicides. Varmints like the rabbits, squirrels, armadillos, raccoons and possums will gladly share your produce as it matures. Moreover, the effort of maintaining a garden through the long growing season becomes a burden by the t
