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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Weessy on April 06, 2013, 20:55

Title: Salad in pots
Post by: Weessy on April 06, 2013, 20:55

Hi

I want to grow some nice lettuce, Tom Thumb, little Gem type stuff, in pots. Can anyone advise on a good growing medium?

Title: Re: Salad in pots
Post by: snowdrops on April 06, 2013, 21:47

Quote from: Weessy on April 06, 2013, 20:55

Hi

I want to grow some nice lettuce, Tom Thumb, little Gem type stuff, in pots. Can anyone advise on a good growing medium?

You could use compost from a grow bag or there is vegetable compost available now I saw at the GC the other day.

Title: Re: Salad in pots
Post by: solway cropper on April 06, 2013, 22:24

Get a compost bin and make your own. You can mix it with cheap MPC to produce an excellent growing medium for containers. For leafy crops a sprinkle of pelleted chicken manure would give them a nitrogen boost.