growing own veggies in bags and pots (Merged)

ChocClare

Well, he says you can either weed it or if you can't be bothered, just put a layer of cardboard down as the 'base' of your frame so the weeds can't come up through. I know which option I'd go for! The cardboard will compost in time, so won't stop your roots reaching down eventually.

voodoozoe

Hello guys!!! I have seen someone somewhere on the veg threads mention buying Gro bags for £1 each :eek: .......can this be right and if it is WHERE CAN I GET SOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nuttyrockeress

voodoozoe wrote:

Hello guys!!! I have seen someone somewhere on the veg threads mention buying Gro bags for £1 each :eek: .......can this be right and if it is WHERE CAN I GET SOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got mine for 80p from the warehouse. Think Netto have been doing them fairly cheap but not less than £1.

voodoozoe

nuttyrockeress wrote:

I got mine for 80p from the warehouse. Think Netto have been doing them fairly cheap but not less than £1.

Okay two daft questions...

1) Which warehouse? Might there be one in my area(West/South Yorkshire)?

2) When you remove the soil/compost, how/where do you keep it so it doesn't dry out? Or doesn't it matter ?

Cheers in advance

nuttyrockeress

voodoozoe wrote:

Okay two daft questions...

1) Which warehouse? Might there be one in my area(West/South Yorkshire)?

2) When you remove the soil/compost, how/where do you keep it so it doesn't dry out? Or doesn't it matter ?

Cheers in advance

Sorry bout that. It's called JTF wholesale - I do believe that there is one near Sheffield if this helps
Poplar Way,
Catcliffe,
Rotherham,
Sheffield,
South Yorkshire.
S60 5TR

It is trade only though, luckily, I worked at a nursery and did a lot of their shopping there.

What are you planning on using the grow bags for?

i normally just cut holes in mine for my chillies (ususally fit 3 in a bag)

voodoozoe

I went there to get a barbecue for my brothers pub only a week ago!!!! Unfortunately he'd borrowed the card from another pub so no chance of getting hold of it again

Never mind, will see if we can join (our limited company has not been closed down yet ) They used to send us mailshots all the time!!!

I am going to grow my potatoes in the gro bags so I can keep raising the level as they grow to get more potatoes. Got my seed potatoes on Sunday and cannot wait to get them started!!! Bought onion sets too but haven't figured out what to plant them in yet. I have three window boxes which I have done tumbling toms in before. I have started my chillis but have no greenhouse so they will just have to stay in the house. Also intend to do mixed salad leaves and kale.

hilary1

oops_a_daisy wrote:

do you dry the tomatoe seeds first Hilary ?

sorry only just read this thread again.

I usually just flck them out of a cherry tomato onto some kitchen roll and let them dry. then they stick to the blooming kitchen roll so I wet it and plant them.

I suppose it would be just the same to put them straight into a little pot.

I put the pot on the bedroom windowledge until they grow to a reasonable size to cope outside and then put them into a hanging basket.

Mine do seem to grow tomatoes quite late and on into the autumn so I dont know if thats because i use a bought cherry tomato rather than bought seeds.

Hope this helps

Loadsabob

Hello everyone,

I know they're cheap, but grow-bags which use peat come at a far greater environmental cost. The extraction of peat irrevocably destroys natural habitats that cannot be replaced at the rate we're destroying.

"Garden Organic" (formerly HDRA) say: "The use of peat as a soil improver is not acceptable in the organic garden. Its extraction destroys invaluable natural habitats". I know a lot of organic gardeners take this approach. I certainly try to.

I know we're all about money saving, but I think we're about living sustainably, too, a lot of the time, so I'd encourage people to seek out peat-free alternatives (available at all the big stores now, I think). I've had success with peat-free in the past.

oops_a_daisy

Right Im getting sorted out for this now. I have asked my Dad and he has said he will make up a couple of grids if I get the wood - so Im off to look into that tomorrow. I have collected some plant pots via free cycle and a very kind person has offered me their excess seedlings in a few weeks time. I have been out today and bought my seeds - cost a total of £6.00 for runner beans, brussels sprouts, mixed salad leaves, cress, rocket, tomato, spring onion, broccoli and carrots ( Aldi packets of seeds were only 29p per pack and grow bags were 89p per bag ). Im going to the market tomorrow to see if I can get some strawberry plants and some rhubarb too. Unfortunatley the garden centre that I went to has sold out of seed potaotes so I may have to seed my own after all .
I am still going to plant the salad leaves in 2 large planters that I have. The carrots, broccoli, spring onions and brussel sprouts will go into the square foot gardens. The tomatos will go into a grow bag and the runner beans will fit into 2 of the corners of the square foot gardens with poles to grow up. I will still do 4 grow bags of potatoes if I can get the seed potatoes too. Phew think thats the lot - Im gonna be busy oh forgot the strawberries and rhubarb - if I get them they will go into one of the square foot gardens too
So tomorrow Im starting off some of my seeds, Im going to keep a running total of the cost too. Wish me luck and as mentioned before any advice on this would be most welcome - I am a complete beginner

Strepsy

Rhubarb will probably not last long in a square-foot, they grow into a huge clump in no time.