Container Gardening

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...

WHere are you jmsadare? Must be somewhere hot if you have fresh flowers on your wisteria!

Its not a very prestigious plant, are you sure that is what you want in your garden planter?Nice flowers in Spring ... but it grows in a rather straggly fashion I reckon it would grow in a minuscule crack in a rock face! so a planter will be fine. Plant it at the same depth it was...

That is so inventive. It has inspired me to consider some eccentric containers of my own. I have been growing potatoes in plastic dustbins but didn't like the look of the bare black plastic so dressed it in hessian sacks tied at the neck with rope from the diy shop. It looked better but I'm...

Not all "maples" like windy sites so buy with where you are placing it in mind

Hello Lowrider. That's a good conservatory you have there and you've done very well with your plants in there.The problem trying to grow in winter is not all about temperature but the lack of light. November through to January is the worst time. The light gets much better in February.There...

Aldi do some sturdy black plastic buckets at under a pound they'll last for years.

As above I have ordered a Grapevine "Blue Dream" from Suttons Seeds which I want to grow in a container on a balcony against some black railings which is South-South/East facing and gets full sun for most of the day in the summer and I want to get fruit from the vine eventually... it comes in a...

Thats really pretty.

Good evening. Does anyone know of an weevil insecticide to use in garden soils not only containers. Moment they are knawing at my buddliea, good as dead. I am using bug killer. Does not mention weevil:mswhl: beetle.

Thanks again Karl, I'd seen the types that hang off the tops of walls but I don't think the hooks would be wide enough to go over the top of the bricks... I might have a go at making your second suggestion, with the roofing laths. How would you bond them? I was thinking of PVA glue...

Good link there karl D, thanks. I grow a fair bit in containers, do have problems with things like pak choi bolting if not watered enough though.

I wonder if purple sprouting broccoli would work ? I love that

Then makesure it cannot fall off.

yeah I read they are pretty slow growing. I'd have to buy a more mature plant if I chose to use one.There's no chance of the shrub getting wet being beside the pond, the waterfall is facing away from the area the shrub will be placed.Another note, it'll be in full sun too.