[pete]

Guys,

It has been a while and I have only just recaught the bug!! I have a small garden and have troughs 30x60 and 26 deep. What is suitable for planting in them and how many per trough?

It has been a while and I am going to do this with my kids.

Many thanks in advance.

Peter.

[Ice]

30x60x26 what?  Good to hear you have the bug again.

[andreadon]

30x60x26 what? 

my physics teacher used to say "30 x 60 x 26 bananas?" if we forgot the units 

i'm sorry, that doesn't help with your question.
i'll go now.....

[Rangerkris]

His good soil is 26" deep  ermmm not sure on this one

[sclarke624]

I grow strawberries in mine.  Think mine are 3ft or in foreign language 100cm hehe.  I put about 5 in them and they fruit lovely.

Also grown cut and come again salad bowl, rom/cos lettuce which I use as cut and come again think in my 3ft ones I put in 7.  Doesn't really matter if crowded as don't want to cut a whole lettuce just leaves.  You may be able to do round/globe shaped carrots parmex or something one variety is called.  Spring onions loads of them in trough and radish although radish bit of a waste as can have nice shallow bit of soil.  Sweet pepers did those one year in a trough kept that one indoors as had a saucer to go under, a trough shaped one,  until couldn't stand the white fly and put it out in height of summer.  The sweet peppers were in 2ft troughs and put two in them.

Chives, herbs not forgetting mint goes mental and will take over ermmmm! tomatoes I suppose as you can grow them in grow bags.  Cape gooseberries  Little yellow fruits in lanterns that have nothing to do with gooseberries.  I have grown beetroot in them.  Endless really whatever goes in a pot.

[peapod]

I grow everything I dont do at the plot -carrots,lettuces, toms, chillies,herbs all go in pots

[pete]

Silly me Centimetres. How could i forget!!

Yes glad to have caught the bug again.

[pete]

Essesntially the trough is two foot by one foot and so Sclarkes reply makes sense.

In a trough nearly a foot deep (hey its 26 cm deep and I was born in metric - it seems to be 10 and a bit inches) how many carrots would you sow and at what spacings. I did some years back and they came out minnie sized instead of the big version I had expected!!

Andreadon - That made me chuckle. Thanks.

Many thanks to you all.

Peter.

[sclarke624]

Well I haven't tried the globe shaped carrots yet in the troughs thats this year maybe might just put 'em in a pot.  The normal shaped ones didn't work well at all can't rember how many I put in was about 2-3" (inch spacing)  But then again my carrots have yet to make me proud even in the high rise bed as normal shaped carrots forked which is the reason I am going to try the round carrots.  The carrots in the troughs didn't seem to thrive.

[Parsnip]

Last year I grew toms and chillis in pots, I also bought some big deep ones and grew green beans in them, very successfully..This year I've put garlic in the big pots so far.. Beans will go in down the lottie ( as i have one this year ) tom's and Chillis will stay here to be grown in pots again.

[pete]

Parsnip,

HOw deep were them pots you bought that grew the beans in?

Sclarke624 - the carrots I find are always hit and miss in troughs just though I'd give them a go again. I now what you mean about the thriving, mine were all stalks and not much carrot.

[pete]

Thanks for your help guys I have a plan worked out for over the weekend!!

[digalotty]

i have some dwarf french beans im sure you will get them in the pot maybe 4 plants

[digalotty]

i have some dwarf french beans im sure you will get them in the pot maybe 4 plants if staggered

[Parsnip]

Parsnip,

HOw deep were them pots you bought that grew the beans in?

Sclarke624 - the carrots I find are always hit and miss in troughs just though I'd give them a go again. I now what you mean about the thriving, mine were all stalks and not much carrot.

I've just been and measured them...18" diametre and 16" high. I put three plants in each and  I used three six foot canes in each and tied them at the top...I got the idea of MOL, she only has a teeny garden. But as I say it worked a treat..