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Thanks everyone for sharing all your information and tips. It is great to know that I am not the only one  :D
I am loving growing stuff. It's so exciting to grow things from tiny seeds ;D
I leap out of bed every morning and check how all my little babies are doing.

Budgiebreeder, I hope you don`t use your car tyre containers for growing vegetables.

Moggle,

To combat the compost drying out, have you tried mixing some of the water- holding gel crystal type-thingummy-bobs, in with your compost???

Debs.

P.S. Night scented stocks are one of my favourite scented plants and their perfume would be gorgeous wafting through your balcony window during the evening!!!  :) :)

Debs.

OOOhhh no Hugh just for flowers.

Containers rock!
Especially since my flatmates won't let me have garden, and I'm determined to grow stuff. My courgettes are going great guns so far. I've taken over every spare surface in the kitchen, as it's the warmest room in the house, and I don't have an airing cupboard. And, as I'm flat broke most of the time, I've been doing midnight skip-raiding for buckets and suchlike (bad, I know ;))

I had some success with my tomatoes last year, except there were too many in the one pot, and my strawbs produced about 5 fruits, and loads of runners, so, as they survived the winter, I'm hoping for more out of them this year.

I find myself getting obsessive about it, the more things grow, the more I want!

the more things grow, the more I want!
I'm finding that too, I hope I don't have some sort of gardening burnout  :-\
Containers do indeed rock, I can't wait till I have a balcony full of flowers, fruit and veg. When I do, I will post photos.

assessed the winter losses this afternoon and i now have 2 large pots free - hmmm what to grow?....

yard is too dark for veg really and i have the lottie for that, plenty of herbs too, i sense a trip to the garden centre coming on when i get back from hols (i'll let you know when busy lizzie!)

Balcony Update:
Got some strawberries in a growbag now, and a couple have flowered already.  :)
Tomatoes, chillis and peppers are still inside, and toms especially are going great guns in my south-ish facing spare room.
Spuds are going mental - earthed up a few days ago and this morning they have all sprouted out the top again.
Garlic going well, the 2 (of 5) that I thought were no-goers finally sprouted.
Sweet peas are out in grow bags (cheaper than pots) but don't seem to be flourishing. I think it might be cause I pinched the tips out and then hardened them up all in the same week.
How are things with everyone elses containers?

Well, I have no veggies in pots...yet...that will happen as I run out of room on the lottie and in the garden...ooo, I take that back, I have a selection of lettuce in a huge clay pot in the greenhouse for easy picking, plus I have alpine strawbs in a pot.  Other than that, tis just plants, I have delphiniums in a big clay pot cos the slugs won't give them a chance to grow, and the same with lupins.  They don't stand a chance in the garden.  I will be doing toms and chilli plants in pots for my mum and my sis in the next few weeks.  
Bout time we saw a piccy of this balcony of eden Moggle!  ;D