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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Cat on March 26, 2007, 12:38:59

Title: What Size Containers?
Post by: Cat on March 26, 2007, 12:38:59
Hello,

I am growing veggies in containers for the first time this year.  What size containers would people recommend for the following:

Spring Onions
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Radishes
Coriander
Rocket

Thanks

Cat
Title: Re: What Size Containers?
Post by: markfield rover on March 26, 2007, 13:29:21
Others will know better ,but i grow most of the above in pots too
medium size,10 inches  and above ,nothing too small, only that it dries
out quicker . I only grew rocket once it has since seeded everywhere!
Title: Re: What Size Containers?
Post by: Tee Gee on March 26, 2007, 13:48:33
I don't grow in pots but if I were I would do the following;


Spring Onions; Min 5" diam and make successional sowings every two or three weeks.

Lettuce; I would grow and come again varieties 1-2 to an 8" diameter pot

Tomatoes; Min 8" diam and one per pot

Radishes; Min 5" diam and make successional sowings every two or three weeks.

Coriander; one per 6"-8" diameter pot

Rocket; 6"-8" diam and make successional sowings every two or three weeks.
Title: Re: What Size Containers?
Post by: manicscousers on March 26, 2007, 15:01:05
we grow things like lettuce, radish and spring onions in flower troughs, about 8" deep, they don't need too wide a container,
toms go outside in the famous morrison's 8 for 99p buckets,
coriander and rocket, I suppose the same as the lettuce..we let the rocket go to seed for seeds and hoverflies..never grow rocket, it goes to seed too quickly, doing something wrong, I suppose..we go for oriental veggie mix for stir fries  ;D