growing own veggies in bags and pots (Merged)

studentphil

What sort of Pumpkins grow best in pots?

Can you get self fertilizing pumpkins by any chance?

Lord_Gardener

Remember that pumpkins are the Giants of the cucumber family! Best grown in soil rich in humus but well drained. Will also need lots of feeding and watering! I'd recommend cougette and squash for pots!!

tight_jock

Might be better to use a growbag

richyrich7

Get a bag of well rotted horse manure and plant a young plant direct into the top. Make a few drainage hole in the bottom you may need to roll down the top a bit, also works very well with courgettes.

richyrich7

Get a bag of well rotted horse manure and plant a young plant direct into the top. Make a few drainage hole in the bottom you may need to roll down the top a bit, also works very well with courgettes.

richyrich7

2 posts how did I manage that ! :rotfl:

teapot2

Lord_Gardener wrote:

Remember that pumpkins are the Giants of the cucumber family! Best grown in soil rich in humus but well drained. Will also need lots of feeding and watering! I'd recommend cougette and squash for pots!!

So could I try butternut squash in pots? Got a packet of seeds and thought I'd give them a go - not really got space for pumpkins as I've heard they need about 3' of space each.

richyrich7

Yeah you should be able to but from memory I think they trail a bit like pumpkins, but you could train them up a bit of sturdy trellis.

Shelle

I am in the middle of planning my planting at the weekend using containers. I intend to grow some veg (potatoes and carrots to start) and perhaps sald stuff, and as I will be buying some containers this weekend to plant in, I have a question.

What sort of size should I be looking at? Lots of large pots, to enable more than one type of plant, or medium size ones for just one type at a time?

I have already planted my garlic, but wanted to progress onto potatoes. I think they will be best in a large deep pot?? Can I plant salad stuff in the same large pot?

I cannot seem to find much online about container vegetable growing to get advice, any ideas?

angie_loves_veg

You can buy special planters for potatoes (v expensive) and they tend to measure 40cm diam, 40cm deep - this would do 2 or 3 seed potatoes - so a large bucket sized planter would do (or large bucket of course!)

salad - cut and come again salad that is - does fine even in shallow soil, so something with a decent surface area but not too deep (saves on compost also) would be fine....... anything from a seed tray upwards. NB After a market you can often find MANY containers that would be perfect for growing salad leaves. Dont grow them with the potatoes as you will need to earth up the pots, and thus you would be burying your salad!

To grow carrots well in containers, you need to grow a 'ball' type, eg paris market. These will then sit in pretty much any type of planter.