I can't remember, Joybell, are you in a temperate or subtropical zone?

I do pretty well with container gardening of cool weather veggies and with herbs. Not so good with tomatoes. Can't seem to keep the nutrient and water mixture right with them. (even if I had enough sun.) I haven't tried other summer crops, such as cukes and squash, in containers but figure I would have the same problems.

'course, I have little time for gardening, and cool weather stuff and herbs are easier to grow regardless if in the ground or in containers. The only pest I have to deal with in cool weather are slugs.

I think I'll try the Salanova lettuces in my raised beds, as much as ornamentals as food, but think from a practical standpoint I'll stick with mesclun mixes and leaf lettuces in containers for the bulk of our salads. With such a small family I usually grow a small bed of mesclun mix, and then grow 6-8 leaf lettuce plants to maturity that last us all season long because I just go out and harvest a few outer leaves from each at a time. Makes all the salad 2-3 people can eat at a sitting.

fwiw, I have found kale does really well in containers. I'll be planting Red Russian soon and expect harvests both this spring and in fall.

Would like some recommendations for salad spinach. There are so many different varieties of spinach. I have yet to settle on a favorite for salads. (me no like cooked spinach - associations of slimy piles of canned spinach on the school lunch tray that I just can't seem to overcome:>)

Do you figure turnips would do well in containers? I love the small, sweet, white round varieties sliced and lightly sauted in butter, garlic and lemon.