Note: A version of this column ran Jan. 15, 2016. Virtually any container that you can cut or punch drainage holes into can be used for vegetable gardening. Styrofoam ice chests, livestock watering ...

For several summers, John Erman has harvested bushels of ruby red tomatoes – all grown in buckets done in a special design he first created about a decade ago. Voles and moles can’t get to the plants, ...