Peppers need lots of water. I've given up, although it's warm enough here, if I forget watering or go on holiday and leave it to someon else the peppers are small and thin skinned.
Have you seen the photos of Lilylouise's garden? it's amazing and the front is all planted with annuals that she probably grows in one of the greenhouses. She opens it for the NGS.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I'm needing to put all my veg in old bike tyre stacks, pots and chimneys. Last year the wireworm got EVERYTHING This year the land needs to lie dormant but be worked so everything is going in pots. Hoping it will be OK
Sam. I am the queen of pots! Every available square inch has a pot on. Usually quite successful as you can control water feed ect for that particular plant.
Don't know about others but I have always had no luck with beetroot in pots. most other things were ok. Grew potatoes in huge plastic pots and potato bags. The pot proved to be more successful. Cherry toms good in pots. I usually grow special small courgettes in fairly biggish pots. Chantennay carrots are also good.
Don't know about others but I have always had no luck with beetroot in pots. most other things were ok. Grew potatoes in huge plastic pots and potato bags. The pot proved to be more successful. Cherry toms good in pots. I usually grow special small courgettes in fairly biggish pots. Chantennay carrots are also good.
Don't know about others but I have always had no luck with beetroot in pots. most other things were ok. Grew potatoes in huge plastic pots and potato bags. The pot proved to be more successful. Cherry toms good in pots. I usually grow special small courgettes in fairly biggish pots. Chantennay carrots are also good.
I will look into them then Sue, thanks 007, I grew parsnips and they were great but they had twisted roots and were very ugly. I had a guy in that tested the soil because I thought it was club root, not that, checked the soil for stones not that Tried them a second year and found the same problem but the carrots were the same. I was lost until on the third year....I looked out the window when my sister was down with the kids to discover that my nephew had been pulling them up to see how they were growing and then replanting them again lol. We monkey. He was only about 6-7. I couldn't be angry with him as he was always very keen on me explaining how things grew and where his food came from.
I grow my Peppers in flower buckets and usually get a good crop.I feed them the same as tomatoes.
I wonder which varieties you have been growing? Two varieties that I like to grow are Tasty Red and Tasty Yellow Grill - they are the long Peppers.Jumbo Sweet is also good
Forgive me of I am telling you something you already know but Parsnips etc. will fork if grown in newly manured soil.
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Peppers need lots of water. I've given up, although it's warm enough here, if I forget watering or go on holiday and leave it to someon else the peppers are small and thin skinned.
Have you seen the photos of Lilylouise's garden? it's amazing and the front is all planted with annuals that she probably grows in one of the greenhouses. She opens it for the NGS.
Everyone seems so organised. Mines all a bit haphazard.
Loads of fun though.
I'm needing to put all my veg in old bike tyre stacks, pots and chimneys. Last year the wireworm got EVERYTHING
This year the land needs to lie dormant but be worked so everything is going in pots. Hoping it will be OK 
Ahh, ok. Have you found anything that doesn't do well in pots Sue?
I want to grow some parsnips!
I will look into them then Sue, thanks
007, I grew parsnips and they were great but they had twisted roots and were very ugly. I had a guy in that tested the soil because I thought it was club root, not that, checked the soil for stones not that 
Tried them a second year and found the same problem but the carrots were the same. I was lost until on the third year..
..I looked out the window when my sister was down with the kids to discover that my nephew had been pulling them up to see how they were growing and then replanting them again lol. We monkey. He was only about 6-7. I couldn't be angry with him as he was always very keen on me explaining how things grew and where his food came from.
I grow my Peppers in flower buckets and usually get a good crop.I feed them the same as tomatoes.
I wonder which varieties you have been growing? Two varieties that I like to grow are Tasty Red and Tasty Yellow Grill - they are the long Peppers.Jumbo Sweet is also good
Forgive me of I am telling you something you already know but Parsnips etc. will fork if grown in newly manured soil.
Has no-one googled my Peter Peppers yet
Pam LL x