Growing plants in containers (referred to as container gardening) is an easy way to grow and maintain vegetables. Vegetables grown in containers can easily fit on a window sill, balcony, deck, door step or any other place where space is limited but where environmental conditions are suitable for vegetable production. See the table below for recommendations on varieties of popular vegetables that are well-suited for growing in containers.
Tomato
- ‘Amish Paste’
- ‘Atlas’
- ‘Baby Boomer’
- ‘Bush Big Boy’
- ‘Bush Champion’
- ‘Bush Early Girl’
- ‘BushSteak
- ‘Celebrity’
- ‘Champion Bush’
- ‘Cherries Jubilee’
- ‘Cherry Cascade’
- ‘Cherry Falls’
- ‘Cherry Punch’
- ‘Cocktail Red Racer’
- ‘Container Superbush’
- ‘Early Resilience’
- ‘Fantastico’
- ‘Husky Red’
- ‘Jet Star’
- ‘Lizzano’
- ‘Maglia Rosa’
- ‘Orange Pixie’
- ‘Patio’
- ‘Patio Choice Red’
- ‘Patio Choice Yellow’
- ‘Patio Paste’
- ‘Patio Princess’
- ‘Peardrops’
- ‘Pony Express’
- ‘Power Pops’
- ‘Primo Red’
- ‘San Marzano’
- ‘Sunrise Sauce’
- ‘Super Bush’
- ‘Sweetheart of the Patio’
- ‘Tasmanian Chocolate’
- ‘Terenzo’
- ‘Tidy Treats’
- ‘Tumbler’
- ‘Tumbling Tom Red’
- ‘Tumbling Tom Yellow’
- ‘Veranda Red’
Author: Vijai Pandian, Extension Horticulture Outreach Specialist
Last Revised: 02/08/2021
X-number: XHT1273
