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It feels like I have a new favorite guerilla-planting every week, and this week, it’s this amazing stenciled utility sink planter on the corner of SE 25th and Ivon in Portland. File under f’n awesome.

This one gets major points for the following reasons:

• Displays polycultural planting in a small space, with tomato, beans, lettuce, basil. (That said, it’s probably planted a little too densely, with one tomato and one bean plant too many.)
• Upcycles an old utiliy sink.
• Water that drains out of the sink flows into another planter below the sink planted with lettuces, which thrive in the shady microclimate underneath.
• Great signage (“Respect Our Local Food” & “Niche Repurposing Public Space”)
• Beautiful stenciling.
• Placement directly on the corner demands attention, but it’s still out of the way enough for pedestrians to navigate around.

It’s been slow on the posting front, as I’ve gotten addicted to Twitter (follow me!).  I’ve been coming across a lot of great container gardening-related resources, and thought I’d throw up a quick list of a few:

Vegetables

• Great list of specific vegetable varieties well-suited to container growing.
• This page has a good chart (scroll to bottom) showing the minimum container sizes for various vegetables.
• Lifehacker’s post about self-watering tomato planters.

Fruits

• Basic tips for growing fruit in pots.
• An article specifically about apples.
• A pdf all about growing blueberries in containers.
• From the Royal Horticultural Society, a great list of fruit varieties suitable for container growing.

For all troubleshooting related to container gardening, post questions to the forum at GardenWeb.

Finally, if you like the tactile experience of a book, pick up a copy of McGee and Stuckey’s Edible Container, an encyclopedic work on the subject.

Have fun!