HI all,

I'm curious if any of you have your own gardens at home, specifically container gardens. I'd love to have a huge garden, but the family who lived here before us worked on cars a lot and had lots of oil and transmission fluid and who knows what else on the ground. I'm very leery to plant food in that soil! I tried a mini container garden many years ago--scallions, carrots, etc., but worms ate my tomatoes and our dogs (or climbing rabbits) got to the carrots. And unfortunately the huge containers are more expensive than I can afford--at least in large quantities.

If you do container gardens, what do you use for soil? Pre-packaged stuff from the nursery, mixtures of some sort?

Or is it just easier to let the experts do it and just buy stuff at the grocery? ;)

I'm going to do online research, but am curious as to actual experiences.