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Plushie
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Topic: Vege Gardens in pots? Posted: 13 May 2011 at 11:07am |
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I am about to return to work which means i'm living in a national park and can't go around digging and planting my beloved vege!! But i'm pretty sure life won't be the same without it - so is it possible to grow vege in pots? Of course not potatoes or yams or anything but surely carrots and cauli and leeks and things will do ok?
Anyone done this, knows about this, got an idea or thinks it'll work?
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Posted: 13 May 2011 at 11:35am |
You can grow anything in pots, including potatoes- you just need a big pot! You can pick up books from paperplus/whitcoulls for about $15 that show you how to start out and keep going.
Main thing is dont let the plants dry out to much, and make sure they dont cook their roots in hot sunshine by using lighter coloured pots. You also have to figure out how much space you have as to what you are going to plant. Brassica type plants take up heaps of room where as beans, tomatoes, carrot etc.. can take up smaller amounts.
Anything that climbs put a whole bunch of sticks in the pot when you plant them and they will grow up them. Its just trial and error really, give it a go and let us know how you get on
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Jaune
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Posted: 13 May 2011 at 11:48am |
I've heard that old tyres are great for growing potatoes in...you start with one tyre and as they grow add more tyres and more dirt and you end up with a tall 'tyre pot' full of potatoes...
..that's handy info if you have old tyres lying around!
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Plushie
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Posted: 13 May 2011 at 4:41pm |
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I do! I want to make a tire swing...but no, they can't grow into the ground or be given any chance of 'polluting' the national environment by spreading seed so they have to be on the porch or preferably inside!
Amazing, growing potatoes in pots. I'm sure i can find a really really big one. I will report back but i'm not moving for another month so it'll take some time!
Mealz that'd probably be a handy way of composting too. Tire compost!
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Posted: 13 May 2011 at 5:08pm |
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You can get big pots from bunnings, mitre 10 extra, but they are like $40! I have a couple spare up here..... LOL You can also get a big pot and put it upside down and then put your compost in it, however you need it to touch the ground so the wormies can get in and do all the hard work
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Ella1
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Posted: 25 June 2011 at 10:34pm |
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Someone once told me, you can grow potatoes in buckets. 1 seed potato per bucket.
I always grow some of my veges in pots.
In summer tomatoes, basil and zuccini and snowpeas do very well. And of course lettuce does well, almost all year round.
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happymumma
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Posted: 28 June 2011 at 2:16pm |
Bowie how much are you wanting to grow? Would it make sense / be cost effective to build yourself one or two smallish raised gardens with a bottom so that there is no chance of things poluting the ground? Not sure whether that is a silly idea or not but if they were the right size I think you could grow anything in them.
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Babe
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Posted: 01 September 2011 at 10:12am |
we have everything in pots chick. i use the black plastic gardening bags which are cheap as chips from mitre 10 or any other gardening place, and grow tomatoes, beans, beetroot, peas, strawberries, fruit trees of all descriptions, cauli and broccolli, silverbeet, lettuce, etc. gotta keep them well watered but i find cutting the bottom of a fizzy bottle and burying the top end in the dirt then filling it with water helps keep everything damp. with potatoes its fish bins or we just cut open the top of a compost bag and bury the seed potatoes and leave to do its thing. HTH
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Posted: 01 September 2011 at 10:13am |
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oh im planting yams the same way i do potatoes this year!
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bookwyrm
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Posted: 21 September 2011 at 3:11pm |
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DF and I once lived in a two bedroom apartment which was in a set of 32 units, we were on ground floor and had no grass at all, just a small cobbled area out the front and rocks out the back by the clothesline. Well once I figured out you could grow almost anything in pots I had about 15 pots.
We had excellent sun and the plants grew really well. I found myself shifting pots when the sun moved to protect those who did not like full sun, but apart from that it was all good. We grew corgettes, capsicum, jalepeno and tabasco peppers, gherkin, lettuce, cabbage, raddish and carrots amongst other things.
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