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Last year we were very impressed by Mrs Woodwench's vegetables in pots so we thought we would try the same. As we were renting a house we couldn't have a vegetable plot so we went for pots as well and it worked a treat. Here are some photos and some notes of how it all went. Next year should be a good bit better from the experience of this year. It wasn't helped by having a new baby and moving house in the middle of it, but it worked!

The real Pud... aka Frances... with her lovingly tended tomatoes!!!!! We planted 3 plants each in 5 pots and got 5-10 cherry tomatoes every few days for about 6 weeks from late July on... We were really pleased. We grew them indoors to start with and then moved them out in early May (i know that cos i was doing it to try get baby moving!)

We weren't too pleased with our carrots - they were supposed to be a breed for baby carrots but they went very wrong... mind you, i don't think it helped doing them in a seed box first and replanting - we won't do that next year. They got fairly heavily attacked by slugs as well. The spring onions were a big success though - we got lots and they were lovely!

Not sure why our radishes were long but they were - lovely taste though. The lettuces were a shock - so fresh they almost tasted of earth - it took some getting used to!

Vegetable	*****rating	Notes for Next Year
Tomatoes	*****	Did 15 plants - do more maybe?
Potatoes	****	Planted 4 potatoes in two pots - got a decent crop until flooded out. More pots and leave until later to harvest.
Onions	***	Great taste. Need to space them out more and do something to avoid slugs eating the leaves late on.
Spring onions	*****	Fab - plant fewer more often!
Radishes	****	As above and don't do in seed trays first.
Carrots	*	Not a success - deeper pot and better species.
Lettuces	***	Lovely - fewer more often and tackle slug problem
Mange Tout	*****	Yummy but stake them better and watch for the slugs or whatever it was that ate them!