Veggies in pots/baskets?

cjb02

Want2Bdebtfree wrote: »

Hi there

I have a 60ft garden and grow all my veg in my flower bed or in pots. There are lots of nice winter lettuce seeds you can get I was growing radishes last year in the garden through winter and they actually did better than my summer ones. I am just about to put carrots in now in my pots also ready for winter carrots so give it ago. I am even going to stick some Kale in long pot ... its amazing what grows... parsnips in a deep pot not too late and you are just about ok to get some christmas potatoes going now. Good luck its fun I love it and have saved a fortune this year in lettuce, green beans, sprouts, Spring onions and beetroot - strawberries grow them next year in a pot : ) Just waiting for my toms to go red! good luck

forgot about mentioning spuds and I have just put some in myself!!! doh... I have not heard of carrots and parsnips being planted this time of year. I have gotta have a go at that now. ta

Herbyme

Want2Bdebtfree wrote: »

Hi there

I have a 60ft garden and grow all my veg in my flower bed or in pots. There are lots of nice winter lettuce seeds you can get I was growing radishes last year in the garden through winter and they actually did better than my summer ones. I am just about to put carrots in now in my pots also ready for winter carrots so give it ago. I am even going to stick some Kale in long pot ... its amazing what grows... parsnips in a deep pot not too late and you are just about ok to get some christmas potatoes going now. Good luck its fun I love it and have saved a fortune this year in lettuce, green beans, sprouts, Spring onions and beetroot - strawberries grow them next year in a pot : ) Just waiting for my toms to go red! good luck

W2BDF, don't you find the cost of the compost for all those pots is just huge? or do you have a solution to that problem? Would love to know if so!

btw you can buy parsley seeds that grow outside all winter, giant i think they are

pennyshahin_2

Hi good thread, I don't want to stop growing things just because winters coming I've made a home made cloche out of bricks and plastic sheeting -I'm going to try some spring cabbages in there -can you grow beetroot in cloches ?
Also might get some winter onions, already got broad beans and I bought some manure pellets which I've put some in -got them from wilkinsons should last ages only cost about £6- I have grow some stuff before -I try not to think aboutit to much -otherwise it stops becoming fun -I just try things as I go along be lucky this year I've had runner beans, salad leaves, beetroot, potatoes, courgettes still got pumpkins, tomatoes, leeks in, parsnips in , had onions, got kale growing ,french beans-bertolli beans(didn't do much)and we've also got blackberries, plums and pears in the garden , we cooked and bagged up 10 bowls of plums yesterday for the freezer-just give it a go -good exercise as well.