Potatoes in bags are very successful for me, so easy to earth up and get lovely clean crops too. Have even kept a bag in an unheated greenhouse to use at Christmas. The 'used' compost goes on the veg beds and rest of garden. Have also grown carrots in large pots, usually the small round carrots and they have come through the awful winter this year. Grow runner and climbing beans in an old 'muck bucket' which had badly cracked with age. If you choose varieties with interesting coloured flowers and maybe include a couple of sweet peas you get a very pretty display. Salad leave do brilliantly, I suffer from flea beetles all over the garden and so cover pots of salad leaves so I have some to eat myself.
I found a brilliant book in the library (and since bought a copy) called Patio Produce by Paul Peacock, it's about how to grow veg, fruit, herbs etc. in the smallest possible space. He uses all sorts of wacky things for containers and gives loads of loads of really good advice on what to grow when. His garden is in Manchester so he knows about weather! I'm having at growing things I would never have thought of trying before.
I've been successful growing salad leaves in biscuit /sweet tins. I just make holes in the bottom (hammer and a nail) and kept high up avoids being nibbled by slugs
Posts
Potatoes in bags are very successful for me, so easy to earth up and get lovely clean crops too. Have even kept a bag in an unheated greenhouse to use at Christmas. The 'used' compost goes on the veg beds and rest of garden. Have also grown carrots in large pots, usually the small round carrots and they have come through the awful winter this year. Grow runner and climbing beans in an old 'muck bucket' which had badly cracked with age. If you choose varieties with interesting coloured flowers and maybe include a couple of sweet peas you get a very pretty display. Salad leave do brilliantly, I suffer from flea beetles all over the garden and so cover pots of salad leaves so I have some to eat myself.
I found a brilliant book in the library (and since bought a copy) called Patio Produce by Paul Peacock, it's about how to grow veg, fruit, herbs etc. in the smallest possible space. He uses all sorts of wacky things for containers and gives loads of loads of really good advice on what to grow when. His garden is in Manchester so he knows about weather! I'm having at growing things I would never have thought of trying before.
I came across this link in reply to another post, but thought I'd share the link here as well, as I thought it's a really neat idea.
Instructions and more info here: http://nestinstyle.com/garden/how-to-make-a-hanging-gutter-garden/