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Newbie seeks help on growing veg please

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  • Candy_Belle
    Candy_Belle Posts: 123 Forumite
    mrbadexample wrote: »
    No, it won't limit you really. I mainly had tomatoes in mine, and some of my best ones were grown outdoors anyway. ;)


    Excellent, thanks was beginning to worry that my options would be limited by not having a greenhouse or any shelter for veg:) x
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  • Candy_Belle
    Candy_Belle Posts: 123 Forumite
    cootambear wrote: »
    strawbs in growbags, better still in a big plastic barrel with holes in it (see a previous post of mine).


    Yey! Did really want to be able to grow strawberrys and rhurbarb x:)
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  • themole_2
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    Think this might just be what you are looking for

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  • mrbadexample
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    Candy_Belle wrote: »
    Yey! Did really want to be able to grow strawberrys and rhurbarb x:)

    I don't know about strawberries, but rhubarb's a doddle. Get a crown. Plant it. Wait. Make a pie. Eat it. Chuck some manure at it in the winter. :D
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
  • Candy_Belle
    Candy_Belle Posts: 123 Forumite
    themole wrote: »
    Think this might just be what you are looking for

    Ultimate patio collection by D T Browns on special offer only £34.99 down from £51.57 and they are very helpful if you need to ask them anything.


    Thank u x:)
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  • Candy_Belle
    Candy_Belle Posts: 123 Forumite
    :D
    mrbadexample wrote: »
    I don't know about strawberries, but rhubarb's a doddle. Get a crown. Plant it. Wait. Make a pie. Eat it. Chuck some manure at it in the winter. :D


    HeeHee:D thank you, glad to know that theres some easy growing fruit about too! Ta :)x
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  • cootambear
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    Candy_Belle wrote: »
    Yey! Did really want to be able to grow strawberrys and rhurbarb x:)

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2846640

    garages are a good source of empty plastic oil barrels (good scrub required). I reckon for the same space as a growbag holding 6 plants, you could have a barrel holding 20-30.
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  • cootambear
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    mrbadexample wrote: »
    I don't know about strawberries, but rhubarb's a doddle. Get a crown. Plant it. Wait. Make a pie. Eat it. Chuck some manure at it in the winter. :D

    Just the same as strawbs really. Except I have cream and sugar not pie.
    Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).

    (I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,

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  • mrbadexample
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    Candy_Belle wrote: »
    :D


    HeeHee:D thank you, glad to know that theres some easy growing fruit about too! Ta :)x

    How much room have you actually got? Are you really limited to just tubs? How about ditching the flowers in the borders and planting fruit & veg instead? Could you squeeze a gooseberry bush in somewhere? :D


    P.S. Rhubarb's actually a vegetable. :p
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
  • wssla00
    wssla00 Posts: 1,875 Forumite
    I have a gooseberry bush in a big planting tub and it's growing really vigorously! So do try fruit in containers if you are stuck!
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