Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: new_2_veg on February 22, 2010, 14:01
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hi all,
just went through all the stuff that came with my greenhouse and theres about 8-10 flower type buckets and i wondered what i could grow in them?
many thanks
nathan
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i use flower buckets for tomatoes, peppers, chilis and cucumbers u can use them for nemerous things. hope this helps :D
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I have some large pots, and i grow some early carrots and salad leaves in mine.
so i think you could try these in your flower buckets.
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I have grown potatoes in mine. One seed potato per pot and I ended up with a family dinner sized number of potatoes. I also successfully used them for cucumbers and tomatoes. In fact they were preferable to the grow bags I also used.
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My local Morrisons is actually selling 8 flower buckets for 99p at the moment just a heads up :)
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My local Morrisons is actually selling 8 flower buckets for 99p at the moment just a heads up :)
and asda give them away for free :)
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My local Morrisons is actually selling 8 flower buckets for 99p at the moment just a heads up :)
and asda give them away for free :)
even better then something for nothing! ;)
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Cutting the base off and using them as ring culture type thingies for tomatoes, but stuffed into grow bags to give extra depth, rather than on gravel gave us a bumper crop last year :D
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Cutting the base off and using them as ring culture type thingies for tomatoes, but stuffed into grow bags to give extra depth, rather than on gravel gave us a bumper crop last year :D
That's a good idea sunshine. What soil did you use in the buckets and how many did you put into a growbag? Think I might copy you this year!
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Three in a growbag. Compost from a part used bag of multipurpose stuff.
Planted the plants well down so that they rooted off the stems as well :D
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Three in a growbag. Compost from a part used bag of multipurpose stuff.
Planted the plants well down so that they rooted off the stems as well :D
i like the idea of that, will save me buying some of the expensive bigger growbags, thanks
i thought about potatoes but didnt think it would be big enough.
if i try that do i ust use soil from my allotment? and how would you recomend planting the seed in it? (how deep etc)
could be handy for a chritmas and early crop
nathan
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You can also stack a bucket with the bottom cut off onto another one with spuds in which allows you to keep topping it up as the top grows. I saw a similar rather expensive system in 3 parts in one of the ad booklets that fell out of my gardening magazine last week. I think they were charging about £10 for what is really just 3 flower buckets stacked.
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will have to have a think then.
would like to grow some new potatoes for Christmas this year
nathan
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Stacking the buckets like that is a good idea :D
I just kept them single storey and had a couple of kilos per bucket, with one tuber in each. Should get more this way though :)
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Stacking the buckets like that is a good idea :D
I just kept them single storey and had a couple of kilos per bucket, with one tuber in each. Should get more this way though :)
how did you plant them? 6 inch down and fill about 2 inch from the top?
nathan
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Planted them about 4 ins from the bottom, filled up as the haulms grew, until the bucket was filled to within an inch to allow for watering. Added a bit of chicken pellet every month too.
Haulms grew quite long and flopped over but waited until flowers had finsihed before tipping the buckets over to get the goodies out :D :D :D
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lovely thanks :)
can i just ask, did you do them for Christmas ?
just a bit unsure about the seed,
do i need to keep some from march planting? (if so how do i do that)
thanks
nathan
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Nathan - pictures and article of Sunshineband's method of using these pots for tomato ring culture in March 2010 copy of 'Kitchen Garden'. Not worth the 3.60GBP, but might be worth a free browse in your local newsagent!
SS
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Nathan - pictures and article of Sunshineband's method of using these pots for tomato ring culture in March 2010 copy of 'Kitchen Garden'. Not worth the 3.60GBP, but might be worth a free browse in your local newsagent!
SS
OOOOH am I in fashion? :lol: :lol:
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With five blue stars your're always in fashion!