growing own veggies in bags and pots (Merged)

CRANKY40

I didn't know that you were counting....just off to have a count.
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Back now, I have 17. Even the rhubarb is in a big pot this year as I am fed up of watching (2 years on the trot!), my baby rhubarb being slowly munched away by slugs and snails.

Jack's_mummy

I have 15! It sure is addictive because I added another one yesterday with beetroot

sammyjammy

I just have to tell you my courgette plant now has four mini mini courgettes on it, they look beautiful!

Sam

Sue-UU

nozzy6 wrote: »

Hi all, this is my first post after lurking for a while and reading all your tips, this is the best thread ever!

I'd like to grow my own veg at home, and I've made a start with 2 tomato plants (Sungold and Tamina) a cucumber and 2 pots full of leeks, that I got as baby plants from a local sale.

Ni nozzy and welcome to the Forum!

I adore Sungold, I hope you do too - when they're ready.

Sue

Lotus-eater

sammyjammy wrote: »

I just have to tell you my courgette plant now has four mini mini courgettes on it, they look beautiful!

Sam

Lucky you! You will be eating them in about 3 days then. How did you manage it this early?

nozzy6

Thanks womblin, I sowed some basil, chives and coriander at the weekend and I'd like to get some mint seeds too as I never seem to do very well with the supermarket bought plants

Thanks Sue-UU, I've never had Sungold or Tamina so I'm looking forward to them both!

lhd4

I usedold carrier bags last year for onions and potatos and they worked a treat

BabyKat

I am having so much fun with this pot plus the veggie garden i keep looking at seeds to see what i can grow next.
I have a huge list of what i want to put int he garden next year and have started picking up seeds already....can't wait...lol
I orogonally started with the garden gor the guinea pigs but i am going to use most of it for the family as hubby is trying to loose weight and with this heat its all i will be in the mood for..lol

BabyKat

i have just started to do veggies in pots and already have
spring onion and carrot...sowed last night in sand....never done this before..lol
cherry tomatoes
ordinary tomatoes
peppers
lettuce...curly, normal and iceberg
radish
so what else can i do?....i think i'm addiced...

sammyjammy

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Lucky you! You will be eating them in about 3 days then. How did you manage it this early?

Do you know I'm really not sure ,they've been there for about a week now but are still tiny, probably about the size of my little finger so I'm still waiting for the big growth spurt, its been outside for at least five weeks now if not longer, its in a growbag under a poly tunnel and its just thrived, I had another one thats only just gone outside today and it looks like a granddaughter of the other one LOL, they do say that plants put outside earlier tend to grow a lot quicker and mature faster than those kept indoors longer, obviously only if there is no frost.

Sam