�

Vegetables can be grown in containers as well as in the vegetable garden.� All sorts of containers may be used, such as yoghurt pots, cream cartons, plantpots or tubs. These may be� kept on the windowsill, doorstep, patio, balcony, roofgarden or in a windowbox.

Salad crops are easy to grow in containers.� Radish, spring onions and salad leaves grow quickly and are are happy in tubs. Successive sowings, every two weeks ensure a constant supply.

The pots should have good drainage.� Holes punched in the bottom of yoghurt & cream cartons allow water out.� Place the cartons in a saucer, to catch the water draining through, so it does not make a mess.� If there are no drainage holes, the pots need to be large enough to hold some stones, or broken crocs, which� together act as a water catchment area.

Compost, or growing medium,� is sold in supermarkets & garden centers.� It is possible to use garden soil, and the soil on mole hills is ideal.� But this is likely to be home to various bugs and worms which� could eat the growing vegetables, particularly as the pests� cannot move away to find any other food.

Vegetables grown in containers need to be in a light place.� But avoid placing them in a position where they will be baked by the sun.� The vegetables plants will need constant, probably daily, watering so that they are always damp.

These French Breakfast radish were sown 2 weeks ago.

Spring onions grow more slowly.� These White Lisbon onions have taken 2 weeks to emege.

Lettuce seeds are quite vigorous.� This is a pot of mixed salad leaves, which can be treated as a ‘cut & come again’ crop.�

�

The mixed salad leaves have different shapes, colours and textures, giving a pleasing variety.

For more information on container grown veg click this link.