growing own veggies in bags and pots (Merged)

Dave101t

these are in wilkinsons now for 1 pound per pot, comes with 6 seeds and the soil, all in a nice little pot!
i bought 2, just started them but its worth a try at that price

HappyIdiotTalk

Wilkinsons again, I keep seeing this place pop up in the forums, will have to take a look.

C_J

Poundland have been selling silver foil pouches of compost / growing medium each with a tiny packet of five vegetable seeds (for a pound, obviously). The range I've seen includes tumbling tom tomatoes, chilli, basil and sweet (bell) peppers. I've bought a couple of each and have them on the sunny windowsill in my office. They're all doing really well.

All five of the bell pepper seeds germinated after only about a week, and the seedlings are about 2 inches high and really strong now. I'm going to re-pot them in my lunch hour today

EagerLearner

Hi can anyone help - I have some Kos lettuce growing in a low tray. But now the stems are around 4cm in length and long and starting to wilt? I only spray them lightly in the morning and early evening.
Do I need to repot? If so what size pot and should I do each one individually?
They are so weak at the moment...

EDIT > Just realised they're probably all going to die as I should have p r i c k e d them out / repotted ages ago...
Just need to know do I re pot them individually and if so, what kind of thing - was thinking a small yoghurt pot would o per lettuce seedling?

arkonite_babe

We have a thread similar to this already, I'll add your query to it so all the replies are together. Posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to catch up

Teresita_2

Well my greenhouse is looking well and trully alive!!! Although I think I will be sick of Courgettes by the end of the summer lol. My amazing other half is making my cold frame this weekend so will get sum caulies and stuff then. Am so excited and think I will be so much healther for it x

MORPH3US

Ditto on the courgettes...

I planted six and was planning to chuck the worst ones and keep the best but they all look so strong and healthy and I can't kill a healthy plant

Will see how they go over the coming months and then maybe donate a could to friends and family or freecycle them.

shellnapier

ok just read this thread, is growing veg really easy, i have no garden just chuckies, woudl it work in pots in bags... or i could use my granns grenhouse

BeenieCat

I've just taken delivery of some seed potatoes from Thompson & Morgan, they're really quite firm and no sign of sprouting (unlike some i bought from No Frills which were already sprouting). Isn't it too late to do anything with these?

caz07

shellnapier

have a go with growing in pots, thats what i'm doing , radish is looking good so are my cucumber seeds ,shallots ,potatoes carrots ,tomatoes ,lettuce , cauliflower and cabbages are just starting to come through and i'v never grown anything before, i look on here for advice and i have got books from library, looked on other websites for tips . and just go for it .