Container Gardening

Hi GN, this thread is alongside your one about container grown Peonies so the same advice applies, except for one solution that wasn't mentioned. Some gardeners overwinter their pots of reasonably hardy container plants by digging a hole in the garden, putting the pots in them , filling around...

Thanks for the replies. I intend to move from this property, therefore, do not want to plant things into the ground. I could wait but ... I think I will have a go, so I will keep you posted! Do you think a pot that is 40+ cm diameter and 30+cm deep will be large enough? Marley Farley, you...

hello Merleworld I asked the same question on here a while back . Just think of re-potting up a plant as a car going up through the gears . You move a plant up as it grows through 3 or 4 pot sizes. As Dai said its to control the root to top growth.

Hi Mary, Rhubarb Roots get very large, but you should do ok with both. I'd give them a regular feeding though. Are they new plants, or have you not got them yet ?

They'll get on okay in a pot if the pot's a decent size, it'll need to be at least 2' wide and 2' deep because clematis have deep roots. It'll also need an obelisk or an open wire trellis because the clematis will want to climb and it does this by twining very fine tendrils around...

I have planted my spring onion seeds in containers 6" deep , provided by my local Co-op , a-la Scrungees suggestion , and Alices planting method Now there is one thing I cannot understand . You plant seeds 2-3" apart in the seed rows , but leave 6" between rows !!! :gaagh:Obviously veg grows...

Thank you Fidgetsmum for you Idea, I have solved the stand idea, something simple like a couple of bits of 3 x 3 fence post. I might have given some more thought to it but I was eager to get on, and I have just come in for my lunch since I posted this morning. The herb Idea was a good one but we...

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What I've done in the past is, as Kristen says, have a 'feel' around and, if there are some which I think are ready for eating, I ease them out, hot foot it into the kitchen with them and leave the rest to grow on.

So perusing the threads as I do, my O.H. chimes up "When the front is paved you won`t have any gardening to do"What planet does he come from I often wonder. Surely to get colour or interest in them throughout the whole year will take more thought and management, than a border ,where plants...

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Given the dimensions I'd suggest you grow something that grows down rather than up. Carrots, parsnips, leeks. If it's wood or plastic you could bore holes and plant strawberries or even tomatoes.

I normally use containers and pots for decorative planting including : fuschias, pelargoniums, geraniums together with a few trailing plants like Bacopa/Verbenas and others. The mix I use varies but I generally use a compost/manure base then a blend of last years compost plus some more fibrous...

yes i would top up your containers

I have a golden raspberry in a 40cm balconniere. Seems to be very happy, it's been in there a couple of years and is doing great.

They should last many years if you paint, varnish or whatever them inside & out 1st so there is no exposed wood.. OK, what I had in mind was something a friend in California has done & hers are in the full sun all the time.. She had her planters made so that they were just the four sides.....

What a great idea Maniac. Looking forward to seeing what you decide to do with it.

One of my tubs I have tulips planted along with grasses its very effective they are just starting to show now .Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Some good advice there Thank You I'm thinking of putting some pots in containers this year I hope to follow your lead...Frank

Me too. Some years ago I bought a "kit" (3 bags and 3 different types of spuds I think). Far more spuds than were needed - clearly they had just included a bog-standard bag of seed tubers with the kit, rather than actually bothering to make something that "did what it said on the tin". People...