Container Gardening for Kinder-gardeners (appropriate, eh?)

I've decided that container gardening is what I'm doing this year since my happily anticipated actual garden in the back yard never happened since it requires actually digging up the yard, raking and seeding. As much as I loved growing up in a rural community and eating foods picked from Mom's garden, and as much as I LOVE driving through what remains of the rural Garden State and the scenery of Lancaster County, and as much as it pains me to see the demise of the American Farmer, I'm afraid I'm just not one who can pull it off. However, I desperately want to grow my own veggies (especially since we use so many tomatoes, bell peppers and onions when we cook); so I've decided that I'll grow these things in containers with bagged soil (already full of nutrients and not the mystery chemicals that may be part and parcel of our back yard courtesy of a toxic dump next door that was to have had a school built on it. I kid you not! See the picture below. If the sign wasn't there announcing the building of the school (originally canceled because the state authorities in charge of the money SPENT all the money set aside for these schools on their own offices instead!), you'd be able to see our house as we're right on the corner!

Bill WolfeGloucester City - middle school to be built on Superfund site. Millions waste on cleanup and relocation of residents (http://blog.nj.com/njv_bill_wolfe/2008/06/polluted_land_and_urban_school.html)

Bill WolfeGloucester City - Polluting industry located directly across street from proposed school on Superfund site.

Bill WolfeGloucester City - school located in an industrial zone on a Superfund site (we live on the left just before the street bends a bit to the left)

The area inside the yellow perimeter on the bottom left is where we live. See the bare area? That's the field where the school was to be built. We're directly across the street. (from http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/welsbach/images/welsbach_aerielmaplayout.jpg)
So, I think containers are the better way to go, no matter what. This despite the fact that somewhat behind the photographer here and to the right there is a community vegetable garden where people who can't grow at home can go to grow their veggies. Regardless, it's probably better than I do containers. 
I will, however, be putting my rose bush out back. It requires little maintenance and plenty of sun and water, AND we don't eat roses. I think I'm good there.
So, here for your perusal and use is a chart supplied by Ohio State's Extension service about which vegetables work best in which containers. Now I need to figure out where a child's beach bucket and a couple of 8 qt round totes fit in.

Vegetables	Varieties/Cultivars	Container Size
Beans, Lima	Bush Baby, Fordhook Bush Lima, Fordhook 242	12" wide, 8-10" deep
Beans, Snap	Bush Romano, Contender, Provider, Tendercrop Stringless, Bush Blue Lake	8" wide, 8-10" deep
Beets	Baby Canning, Spinel Little Ball, Red Ace Hybrid, Burpee Golden	6"-12" deep
Broccoli	Any variety but Crusader	20" deep
Brussels Sprouts	All varieties	12" wide, 12" deep
Cabbage	Baby Head, Dwarf Morden, Minicole, Fast Ball, Flash	8"-10" wide, 12" deep
Carrots	Short root or round, Nantes, Gold Nugget, Best of the Bunch, Little Finger, Baby Spike, Short & Sweet, Thumbelina	10" wide, 10" deep
Chard	Any variety	8-12" deep
Chinese Cabbage	Bok Choy, Michihli, Wong Bok	20" deep
Collards	Any variety	12" deep
Corn	Space saving varieties, F-M Cross, Golden Bantam, Kandy Korn, Precocious	21" wide, 8" deep. Need 3 plants per container to assure pollination.
Cucumber	Salad Bush, Burpee Hybrid II, Bush Crop, Spacemaster, Burpee Pickler, Bush Champion, Fanfare, Pickalot, Picklebush, Pot Luck	20" wide, 16" deep
Eggplant	Dusky, Morden Midget, Bambino, Millionaire	16" deep
Horseradish	Maliner Kren	5 gallon or larger
Kale	Any variety	8" wide, 8" deep
Kohlrabi	Grand Duke	12" deep
Lettuce	Black-seeded Simpson, Red Sails, Salad Bowl, Tom Thumb, Green Ice, Little Gem	8" wide, 6-8" deep
Onion	Bunching types work best: White Pear, Japanese Bunching, Beltsville Bunching, Crystal Wax Pickling PBR	10-12" deep
Peas	Little Marvel, Sugar Bon, Sugar Mel, Laxton's Progress, Sugar Rae, Melting Sugar, Burpee's Blue Bantam, Early Patio, Snowbird	12" deep
Peppers	Any variety	16" deep
Potatoes	Charlotte, Kennebec, Red Pontiac, Irish Cobbler, Epicure	1-20 gallon containers
Pumpkins	Autumn Gold Hybrid, Bushkin, Jack Be Little, Small Sugar, Baby Boo	5 gallon tub
Radish	Cherry Belle, Early Scarlet, French Breakfast, Sparkler, Burpee White, Comet. Avoid winter radishes.	4-6" deep
Spinach	Any variety	4-6" deep
Squash, Summer	Early Yellow Summer, Crookneck, Goldbar, Park's Creamy Hybrid, Straightneck, Scallopine, Peter Pan, Gold Rush, Pic-N-Pic Hybrid, Richgreen Hybrid, Sunburst	24" deep
Squash, Winter	Butterbush, Bush Acorn, Table King, Cream of the Crop	24" deep
Tomatoes	Patio VF, Pixie, Small Fry VFN, Yellow Pear, Sweet 100, Tumbling Tom, Container Choice, Rutgers, Tiny Tim, Husky Red, Husky Gold, Yellow Canary, Whippersnapper, Basket Pak, Red Cherry, Gardener's Delight, Sundrop	Dwarf--12" deep Standard--24" deep
Turnips	Any variety	10-12" deep

Courtesy of the Ohio State University's Extension Service. http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1647.html