pfr, you can grow veges and herbs in pots.

I'm not an expert. Our veges sink or swim with very little help from us.

At present we have some rectangular self watering pots with lots of oregano and in our raised vege beds we have an overrun of mint - not a bad thing. It's always touch and go with my attempts on growing thyme.

We recently bought some Japanese eggplant seedlings and they have already yielded about four long thin eggplants the size of large zucchinis.

A pumpkin vine has escaped from the compost bin and so far we have two large ones sitting in the sun waiting to ripen and two medium ones still on the vine. They can take a long time to ripen but when ripe the pumpkin can be baked or steamed and then frozen for future use. I wouldn't recommend pumpkin vines because they take up too much space but there might be smaller plant varieties which could be grown in a big pot. Zucchinis can be good but I've had no luck recently partly because of the drought, and partly because I'm a forgetful gardener.

Onions take too long to mature, but spring onions etc are quicker.

Hubby discovered a trick for growing basil. Buy one of those pots of basil in the supermarket and chop the tops off, strip all but the topmost leaves and put the cuttings in water, making sure that there is a leaf node on each stem under water. After a while some rootlets form and then you can plant them into pots to grow more basil. Repeat ad infinitum.

I took the seeds out of a chili and planted them a couple of weeks ago and now there are lots of seedlings. I'll plant them in a bigger pot, socially distanced of course, to give them room to grow.

I'm thinking about getting some cos lettuce seedlings. We've had problems before with tomatoes and capsicums because something eats them but I have a little section on the front verandah with pots of this and that including the chili seedlings so I'll probably try some there. There is mesh on the verandah to stop the cats taking a flying leap but it should also prevent those annoying Indian mynah pest-birds from getting at the chilies, capsicums and tomatoes.

We have a blueberry bush but it doesn't yield much. A raspberry plant has popped up thanks to the pest-birds and their poop, I'm guessing. The last one yielded enough to make it fun so we'll see how this one goes. It's in a big pot. Strawberries are good too.