You can grow them in containers and get fruit. However you may need a 15 gal min. container. Also don't expect to get baskets filled with fruit. I would expect more like 4-6 nicely sized pomegranates per container on a 4 year old plant. I would recommend pruning off the fruit the first couple of years to thicken the trunk. Here is some pictures; Angel Red From Mar 27, 2011 Parfianka From Mar 27, 2011

Fig and pomegranate are best planted when they are dormant -- Jan-Feb is good. It doesn't matter whether they are bare-root or caontainerized. Fall planting is, as you say, "okay". Avocados are best planted in late-winter-earliest spring -- Feb-Mar is good. Joe

You don't state where you live or if the container will be indoors or outdoors or outdoors, good drainage, etc. which can affect the herbs. However, off hand, I would suggest Corsican mint and some of the creeper thymes, i.e. elfin, red-flowered, pink chintz, coconut, caraway, and Annie Hall to name just a few.

Beware that the nursery industry lies... Uhhh, gee thanks. :( But, "lies", no. That is an unfair statement. Dry gallons and liquid gallons aren't the same amount. 1 gallon, dry = 1.1636 gallons, liquid So what you are seeing in the nursery industry is a liquid gallon label since that is the U.S. Customary usage but which actually hold the equivalent dry gallon measurement of a dry material like potting soil. A 5 gallon nursery pot will hold 5 gallons of water (if you plug up the drain holes) it just won't hold 5 gallons of potting soil. A 5 gallon paint bucket (liquid) = 4.3 dry gallons. Or approx. 4 dry gallons of soil if not filled to the rim. Dave