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Last year Mrs Woodwench did some 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 nextt year. They got fairly heavily attacked by slugs as well. The spring onions were a big success thoguh - 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
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Notes for next year |
| Tomatoes |
*****
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Did 15 plants - do more maybe? |
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Potatoes |
****
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Planted 4 potatoes in two pots - got a deacent crop until flooded out. More pots and leave until later to harvest. |
| Onions |
***
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Great taste. Need to space them out more and do something to avoid slugs eating the leaves late on. |
| Spring onions |
*****
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Fab - plant fewer more often! |
| Radishes |
****
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As above and don't do in seed trays first. |
| Carrots |
*
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Not a success - deeper pot and better species. |
| Lettuces |
***
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Lovely - fewer more often and tackle slug problem |
| Mange Tout |
*****
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Yummy but stake them better and watch for the slugs or whatever it was that ate them! |
