[Carl f k]

Because I'm lazy and don't want to dig looking for ideas of what to grow..spuds and carrots on the list..any ideas please

[Ina]

I'm going to do runner beans this year - had climbing French beans in the past (in a more suitable climate) and had them climbing up the roof... Have also done tomatoes, courgettes, salads/lettuces, all kinds of herbs, radishes etc.

[Clarebelle]

I only have small garden and move around a lot so everything i grow is in containers. I have got cylindrical beetroot, carrots, spuds, cucumber, chilies, radish, rocket, cabbages, beans (all kinds) and loads of herbs. This year I have also put some leeks and turnips in containers, not sure how well they will grow, we'll see! 

[Carl f k]

I'm going to try spuds in straw in a blue barrel

[HesterF]

I've had great results with courgettes in the past. Always have tomatoes too. You save on digging but you lose out on watering - I'm trying to get us much as possible in the ground this year.

H

[Mammyshaz]

All salad crops (tomato, cucumber, spring onion etc ) do well in pots. As do beans and peas. The boys have their own pots of sugarsnaps some years. There are very few that won't grow in pots as long as they are deep enough for long roots and fed as required.
Happy planting   

[Carl f k]

I've had great results with courgettes in the past. Always have tomatoes too. You save on digging but you lose out on watering - I'm trying to get us much as possible in the ground this year.

H

I have some ideas for slow drip irrigation

[Lesley Silvester]

I had an article somewhere about container growing.  The writer found most things grew with the exception of caulis, although I found cabbage didn't do too well and nor did potatoes.  Why don't you just build raised beds?  They don't need digging but also don't need as much watering as pots, unless we actually have a summer this year.

There's a lot on the internet if you google no dig gardening.  Garden Organic do an excellent sheet on it.

[waddy]

Don't forget strawberries! They will ripen earlier under cover in pots and then can be planted out.


 



Helen

[Carl f k]

Have 2 raised beds but wanted to put barrels to use

[Ina]

Aubergines and peppers are good, too. (Up here under cover, of course...)

[Carl f k]

Doing peppers in greenhouse ..nobody keen on aubergines

[Carl f k]

Carrots are big and cannot be easily grown in jars. So try to dig and don't be so lazy...  

I have put some carrot seeds in a raised bed..have to wait and c what happens now

[Plantoid]

Use wet straw bales covered in netting and tied together to keep things in place ... soaked in liquid manure for things likepotatoes , melons marrows and cucumners both longs and apple types .
If your really going for things they are also good for growing mushrooms but you need to keep the tom cats whole or neutered  off and away from then as they have a nasty habit of spraying the stinking straw
 Use the spent straw to make browns element of your compost for next year
Carrots such as early Nantee do well in 400 mm  ish  deep half  barrels /tubs in a high level of compost base that is aged or has been used last year so it does not have too much nitrogen in ..don't forget to make a small 19 mm drain hole about 30 mm up the side from the bottom to let excess water out .
 You can also grow all letttuces , spring onions  ,radishes  mooli , beet roots in deep tubs as well so long as you don't let them dry out , feed thn liquid manures as well but don't get the feed onthe crop if your using a bacterially live feed such as manure tea lest you & your family  end up with ecoli probs.
 
I've got Goji berries going in outside containers ( first year ) at the end of May , not yet sure if I'll use cut in half barrels or two spare adapetd 15 gallon header tanks