What veg/fruit can I grow in a hanging basket?

skaps

Am running out of space in my little garden and wondered what fruit/veg could I grow in a hanging basket? I have beetroot, carrots, peas, onions, cress, tomatoes, strawberries, lettuce, rocket, broad beans, swede, sweetcorn, bell peppers and chilli peppers.

yumyums

I'm growing strawberries in hanging baskets.

You could grow tomatoes but they have to be the tumbling type.
I'm sure lettuce (if it's the salad leaf type) would grow in a hanging basket. Same for rocket

Also, maybe dwarf peas or beans might work too.

Mrs_Domino

I second the above. I am doing tomatoes (cerise) in hanging baskets, also strawbs and herbs

angelavdavis

I have successfully grown strawberries, tumbling tomatoes, basil and mixed salad leaves.

LilacPixie

strawbs and tomatoes is all i do in baskets. I fancy trying some mixed salad leaves in half moon baskets hung on my fence this year

Winged_one

We've done tumbling tom tomatoes the past few years, with a basil plant in the middle.

Salad leaves with some spring onions and/or radishes?

I know I've heard others growing strawberries that way.

Perhaps a chilli plant? Or mini bell peppers (a patio type)?

Hopelessly_Hopeful

Great thread.

Which varieties of tomatoes are tumbling please?

HHx

Winged_one

Well, I know "Tumbling Tom" is one (comes in both red and yellow variations).

I THINK a bush variety in general would be ok, once it's not too prolific. Others may know more but once it;s not a cordon type. (I think that includes "Garden Pearl", Sub Arctic Plenty, Hundreds and Thousands, and probably loads more - but I can't get at my packs at the mo).

Lotus-eater

Winged_one wrote: »

I THINK a bush variety in general would be ok, once it's not too prolific. Others may know more but once it;s not a cordon type. (I think that includes "Garden Pearl", Sub Arctic Plenty, Hundreds and Thousands, and probably loads more - but I can't get at my packs at the mo).

I think it would, but you would have to be able to get to the top of the basket easily.

OP, if you can, anything that you can hang off the side of the fence/wall would be bigger and therefore better than a hanging basket.

julieq

Courgettes are very good in hanging baskets, look nice too when they flower

Lotus-eater

julieq wrote: »

Courgettes are very good in hanging baskets, look nice too when they flower

Really? What variety?