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Vegggies in Pots
medavidcook
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Can Onions, Carrots, Garlic and Cucumber be grown in pots.
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I have grown them all in pots but the yield is only small unless you have a few pots on rotation. I only have a small garden so I choose carefully
ok at the moment my garden is mainly slabs but plan to build a raised bed and when they have grown a bit will transfer them next year.
Pots are quite high maintanence especially in the warm weather we have been having I know cause I have lots of them
yeh i know, the pots will mainly be used to start growing and i will prob leave cucumber in a big pot not really sure yet!
Carrots and onions don't transplant well in my experience.
You could build you raised bed now and plant your garlic in the autumn - it will grow slowly over the winter and be ready for harvesting in July.
You could also sow some Winter Density lettuce in your raised bed - it's a bit like a larger Baby Gem, and will grow slowly through the autumn and winter so that you have lettuce ready to eat in the early spring. http://www.seedaholic.com/lettuce-winter-density-semi-cos.html
I'm growing lunch-box type cucumbers in large pots outside - a friend with a greenhouse started the plants off for me in the spring and I planted them into the large pots in June when the weather had warmed up. We're picking several each day and they're really tasty. Our niece stayed with us last week and she really enjoyed them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Awesome, might have to try that, if i build my bed now and plant some things what should i cover it with?
Fill the bed with a mixture of topsoil and well-rotted farmyard manure - you can get bags of both from the garden centre.
To grow the things I suggested there's no need to cover it at all. They're all fine outside in the winter.
You could also some some Aqualdulce Claudia broad beans in October - they will grow slowly through the winter and give you a much earlier crop than sowing in the spring.
And also Swiss chard can be sown now - you can use the small leaves as salad leaves in the autumn, leaving the plants to grow bigger through the winter and then you'll have lovely leaves and stems to cook in the spring - it would cost you a fortune at the greengrocers, if they even stock it. Such a lovely vegetable - use it like spinach, especially good in curries etc .
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Are you growing Cucino Dove?
I'm growing courgettes in pots, well big black buckets, they were doing really well but now seem to be a bit sad, I'm not sure they've had enough water so am trying to revive them!!
My tomatoes in the greenhouse that are in grow bags will next year be in pots, I'm not using grow bags again, I've decided!
I've got tumbling Tom tomatoes in pits and also dwarf green beans.
When I very first had a go at vegetable growing several years ago we only had quite a small garden and I grew some carrots in pots, From what I remember they didn't do that well, but I was very inexperienced and don't think I like after them right.
OL you have PM.
Thanks KEF, replied