I turn growbag s on the very end bang soil down and cut open then roll down the sides then plant beans in and put canes up in a tripod. You only need 3 growbags. Just remember to add drainage holes.
Tumbling toms for hanging baskets. Or a nestursion (no idea how it is spelt) but its an edible flower to top up your salads
Our new house a few years ago was perfect in lots of ways, but, horror! -- the back "garden" was totally paved over. Honestly, what idiot.....? Anyway, before I managed to get some of the slabs up, (my husband is disabled), I grew broad, runner and French beans, mangetout peas, courgette, tomatoes, cucumber, radish, lettuce, rocket, borage, nasturtium, chillies, very tastily. Carrots always a disaster though, and beetroot tough as old boots. Can't win 'em all, but it's great fun, so have a go!
If you have as much as 4 foot square, please try 'Square foot gardening'. Using the special mix I get a Six foot row of carrots in two one foot square units i.e. two foot by one foot! You can also get very good results with Beet, Beans, Peas, radish etc. I grow No tomatoes outside as there are too many potato growers in the area and the blight is the same on spuds and toms. Nature grows nothing in rows, and neither do I! The special mix is free draining but holds moisture and is 1/3 Peat, 1/3 Garden Compost and 1/3 INSULATION grade Vermiculite. the seedsowing grade Vermiculite from Garden Centres is much too fine. I am 75 but still get good crops.
Don't forget the fruits... I grow tomatoes with my strawberries in an old round washing up bowl - holes in bottom for drainage and hung up in a lilac tree. Also grow with nasturtiums, (I can't spell that either) and have had gr8 success with marrows in a 12" pot, need to feed regularly, I have bilberries in pots, and in a thin wedge of soil about 9" deep by 9" across, up against a east facing wall I have a peach, kiwi and cherry, plus summer green beans, oh and a passion fruit (also edible, but haven't had any fruit off that yet). Radish did so well, I don't like them anymore - I grew cucumber in a pot in a shed converted into a greenhouse and although spindly it cropped really well. Best thing about pots, if you have to you can move them and last year with all the rain, I kept taking them out of their trays in order to drain the water, also extended the season by dragging stuff into the shed! I also store home made compost in a dustbin, and if I have any surplus compost not in use elsewhere, I just bung some spuds that have chitted in the cupboard, and get a few extra for no cost, they would have gone on the compost anyway! I also grow strawberries in the cracks between the slabs on the patio, they sometimes get trodden on and then the birds eat them, but the presence of birds tends to keep the slugs and snails under control too.
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Tumbling toms for hanging baskets. Or a nestursion (no idea how it is spelt) but its an edible flower to top up your salads
Ooh yes I do have some Nasturtium seeds, they are lovely in salads, thanks again for all the advice!!
Red Dahlia I do like your advice about growbags, seems to me they are not as deep as they used to be!?
in my container i tried with chille and tomoatos..
Do well with tomatoes,runner beans,cucumbers and early potatoes.
Our new house a few years ago was perfect in lots of ways, but, horror! -- the back "garden" was totally paved over. Honestly, what idiot.....? Anyway, before I managed to get some of the slabs up, (my husband is disabled), I grew broad, runner and French beans, mangetout peas, courgette, tomatoes, cucumber, radish, lettuce, rocket, borage, nasturtium, chillies, very tastily. Carrots always a disaster though, and beetroot tough as old boots. Can't win 'em all, but it's great fun, so have a go!
If you have as much as 4 foot square, please try 'Square foot gardening'. Using the special mix I get a Six foot row of carrots in two one foot square units i.e. two foot by one foot! You can also get very good results with Beet, Beans, Peas, radish etc. I grow No tomatoes outside as there are too many potato growers in the area and the blight is the same on spuds and toms. Nature grows nothing in rows, and neither do I! The special mix is free draining but holds moisture and is 1/3 Peat, 1/3 Garden Compost and 1/3 INSULATION grade Vermiculite. the seedsowing grade Vermiculite from Garden Centres is much too fine. I am 75 but still get good crops.
Don't forget the fruits... I grow tomatoes with my strawberries in an old round washing up bowl - holes in bottom for drainage and hung up in a lilac tree. Also grow with nasturtiums, (I can't spell that either) and have had gr8 success with marrows in a 12" pot, need to feed regularly, I have bilberries in pots, and in a thin wedge of soil about 9" deep by 9" across, up against a east facing wall I have a peach, kiwi and cherry, plus summer green beans, oh and a passion fruit (also edible, but haven't had any fruit off that yet). Radish did so well, I don't like them anymore - I grew cucumber in a pot in a shed converted into a greenhouse and although spindly it cropped really well. Best thing about pots, if you have to you can move them and last year with all the rain, I kept taking them out of their trays in order to drain the water, also extended the season by dragging stuff into the shed! I also store home made compost in a dustbin, and if I have any surplus compost not in use elsewhere, I just bung some spuds that have chitted in the cupboard, and get a few extra for no cost, they would have gone on the compost anyway! I also grow strawberries in the cracks between the slabs on the patio, they sometimes get trodden on and then the birds eat them, but the presence of birds tends to keep the slugs and snails under control too.