Container Gardening

Do you long to be able to grow your own fresh vegetables but don’t believe that you can because you do not have a big garden? Freshly harvested vegetables taste fabulous and they are so easy to grow.

Anyone can grow them - even if you only have a window box you can grow cut and come again salad leaves, radishes, salad onions and if you have room for a hanging basket then you can grow tumbling tomatoes to go with your salad!

If you are growing vegetables on your patio then any container or pot will do as long as it is 10 inches in diameter and approximately 12 inches deep. Plastic pots are better than terracotta as the compost doesn’t dry out as fast but all containers must have drainage holes. There is no need to buy new pots - recycle wherever you can.

The list of vegetables you can successfully grow in containers is endless. Potatoes in buckets, will give you a harvest of lovely new potatoes! Courgettes and squashes can be left to scramble across the patio. French and runner beans will climb an obelisk, tomatoes, carrots, beetroot, pak choi and cucumbers all grow in containers. Grow, eat and enjoy!

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