I've done the raised beds. Starting with decent manure and peat moss for drainage and body. But I have never tried actually growing just in a container for the entire season. Probably a little too worried about the plant becoming root bound. But those plants can't be moved from the weather.
The reason that I discovered the shorter stalk corn is a bad season of wind damage and a co-worker at HD. Before that all corn to me was the field corn that I grew up with growing 8-10 feet tall. But on dairy farms... that is what you want. The corn we humans consumed was only an afterthought and a small percentage relative to the acres grown.
The raised beds were largely the result of getting large bell ends from culverts that got installed and had them cut away. They were three feet across and the black corrugated plastic allowed the soil to warm more quickly in the early season.
I used beef steak with basil at the base. Cucumbers with dill. Bell peppers and oregano. But I am not sure if that would be easy to do with a container unless it was pretty large.
What varieties of tomatoes have you had that grow well? Peppers? Should I look for a short maturation?
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