Ask Joanna...she will know.

Take a mason jar with a two piece canning lid. You don't need the inner lid piece. A local health food store will often carry the piece of round wire screen to fit in the lid in the appropriate sizes for canning jars (you could use a piece of cheese cloth, but it probably get yucky quickly when you are watering the seeds). You can buy seeds to sprout at your health food store also. Alfalfa, sunflower, peas. Be careful not to buy seeds for planting in bulk at the nursery for your sprouting, as many seeds are treating with fungicides to inhibit rot and also peas are inoculated with something... I forget what it is... get back to me on this... So best to use seeds that are sold for the purpose of edible sprouts.

This is what I do. A great way to get some veges in a small space and it also cuts down the bending down to work. I like nasturums as they trail in a vine and are edible flowers. You can mix herbs like basil with tomatoes. Fresh mint in a pot is handy to grab for your iced tea.

That's a great idea - its called container gardening - I've done tomatoes and herbs before and they do well.

It is fun, decorative, and you can eat your patio garden with vegetables and herbs in your potted garden. Try planting a tomato and surround it with parsley, basil, and bush beans .These plants all "like" each other . Also you can put some cucumbers in a pot with a standing trellis , or even just some bamboo poles teepee style and wrap some sturdy twine around them for the cucumbers to climb or you can let them trail out of your pot. Larger pots are desired for this and buy a bag of chicken or steer manure and put a good amount of this in with the soil to feed your edible garden. Try some companion planting such as the tomatoes , beans and basil. I also have found that peppers and eggplant enjoy being together. You can plant three of each in a large pot and plant basil and parsley around them. Don't forget some flowers for color and to attract bees for pollination. Marigolds, calendulas, and nasturtiums.... A bit of allysum trailing to soften the potted bouquet. If you are in a warmer state ,Citrus are a great patio garden plants . There are dwarf varieties. When you have a potted garden, when you are young and nomadic, moving from one rental to another, you can take your garden with you! A nice potted fruit tree is also a nice gift for a friend who likes to grow things and is into a sustainable lifestyle. Also a nice gift for friends buying and moving into their first house and for friends having babies.