Vege Gardens in pots?
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Topic: Vege Gardens in pots?
Posted By: Plushie
Subject: Vege Gardens in pots?
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 11:07am
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I am about to return to work which means i'm living in a national park and can't go around digging and planting my beloved vege!! But i'm pretty sure life won't be the same without it - so is it possible to grow vege in pots? Of course not potatoes or yams or anything but surely carrots and cauli and leeks and things will do ok?
Anyone done this, knows about this, got an idea or thinks it'll work? |
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Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 11:35am
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You can grow anything in pots, including potatoes- you just need a big pot! You can pick up books from paperplus/whitcoulls for about $15 that show you how to start out and keep going.
Main thing is dont let the plants dry out to much, and make sure they dont cook their roots in hot sunshine by using lighter coloured pots. You also have to figure out how much space you have as to what you are going to plant. Brassica type plants take up heaps of room where as beans, tomatoes, carrot etc.. can take up smaller amounts. Anything that climbs put a whole bunch of sticks in the pot when you plant them and they will grow up them. Its just trial and error really, give it a go and let us know how you get on  ------------- 
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Posted By: Jaune
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 11:48am
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I've heard that old tyres are great for growing potatoes in...you start with one tyre and as they grow add more tyres and more dirt and you end up with a tall 'tyre pot' full of potatoes...
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 4:41pm
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I do! I want to make a tire swing...but no, they can't grow into the ground or be given any chance of 'polluting' the national environment by spreading seed so they have to be on the porch or preferably inside!
Amazing, growing potatoes in pots. I'm sure i can find a really really big one. I will report back but i'm not moving for another month so it'll take some time! Mealz that'd probably be a handy way of composting too. Tire compost! |
Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 13 May 2011 at 5:08pm
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You can get big pots from bunnings, mitre 10 extra, but they are like $40! I have a couple spare up here..... LOL You can also get a big pot and put it upside down and then put your compost in it, however you need it to touch the ground so the wormies can get in and do all the hard work -------------
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Posted By: Ella1
Date Posted: 25 June 2011 at 10:34pm
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Someone once told me, you can grow potatoes in buckets. 1 seed potato per bucket.
I always grow some of my veges in pots. In summer tomatoes, basil and zuccini and snowpeas do very well. And of course lettuce does well, almost all year round. |
Posted By: happymumma
Date Posted: 28 June 2011 at 2:16pm
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Bowie how much are you wanting to grow? Would it make sense / be cost effective to build yourself one or two smallish raised gardens with a bottom so that there is no chance of things poluting the ground? Not sure whether that is a silly idea or not but if they were the right size I think you could grow anything in them.
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Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 01 September 2011 at 10:12am
we have everything in pots chick. i use the black plastic gardening bags which are cheap as chips from mitre 10 or any other gardening place, and grow tomatoes, beans, beetroot, peas, strawberries, fruit trees of all descriptions, cauli and broccolli, silverbeet, lettuce, etc. gotta keep them well watered but i find cutting the bottom of a fizzy bottle and burying the top end in the dirt then filling it with water helps keep everything damp. with potatoes its fish bins or we just cut open the top of a compost bag and bury the seed potatoes and leave to do its thing. HTH  -------------   
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Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 01 September 2011 at 10:13am
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oh im planting yams the same way i do potatoes this year! -------------
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 21 September 2011 at 3:11pm
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DF and I once lived in a two bedroom apartment which was in a set of 32 units, we were on ground floor and had no grass at all, just a small cobbled area out the front and rocks out the back by the clothesline. Well once I figured out you could grow almost anything in pots I had about 15 pots.
We had excellent sun and the plants grew really well. I found myself shifting pots when the sun moved to protect those who did not like full sun, but apart from that it was all good. We grew corgettes, capsicum, jalepeno and tabasco peppers, gherkin, lettuce, cabbage, raddish and carrots amongst other things. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Anais251805
Date Posted: 18 March 2021 at 11:39am
| I have started taking care of my garden recently and can't boast of a lot of experiences in growing any plants, but I know that potted plants are really very convenient. I hired specialists to design the project for my backyard and I'm really happy with the result. I know they offer their services in San Diego, California, but maybe their portfolio here https://www.lasdstudio.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.lasdstudio.com/ will give you new ideas for your garden? |
Posted By: Owen267078
Date Posted: 09 June 2021 at 4:58pm
| Great idea! Thanks for the advice |
Posted By: Rachel267116
Date Posted: 09 June 2021 at 5:08pm
| You can definitely grow leeks in a pot on the windowsill, my mother and I just put the bulbs half in the ground. They were well-watered once every two days for about a couple of days, and the first sprouts were already there. I'm not sure about tomatoes and peppers; they are very capricious, and the harvest is minimal. Therefore, we usually plant them not in pots but in the garden in our village house. But because of the quarantine, we could not go to the village for a long time. Unfortunately, most of our vegetables were lost. I especially felt sorry for the lawn that we'd been growing for so long. So we ordered https://trimthatweed.com/best-fake-grass/" rel="nofollow - Realistic Thick Artificial Grass , and we wouldn't have to worry about it dying if we couldn't make it for a long time. |