Kitchen Garden Forum

Help ! There must be others like me who don't have an allotment and struggle to fit in all the veggies they would like to grow into whatever space they have in their garden. I'm now into "hot-bedding" mode and looking for tips on what most suitable things I can grow part of their life n in pots until I can plant them out halfway through summer into whatever spare ground becomes available. E.G. My small plot is fully sown now but I would also dearly like to grow 2 or 3 sprout plants, a handful of cabbages, etc. Will such plants thrive in deep pots until I can transplant them mid summer? Courgettes & cucumbers have space allocated. It's really the brassicas I'm puzzling about.

As I understand it, brassicas, and sprouts in particular, need really firm ground or they blow. I would have thought transplanting them as largish plants would also cause this to happen.

Chantal wrote:I would have thought transplanting [brassicas] as largish plants would also cause this to happen.

This is off topic, but if so I'm a bit worried.

On another thread, I was reading about options for clubroot. One suggestion was raising brassicas in pots till they'd established a good root system, then planting them in the affected area (plus lime etc).

I have a collection of sprouting broccoli & cabbage in this very state . Are you pointing out a downside to this Chantal


Colin

Hi Primsose

Lettuce can grow quite well in peat pots, until it can go in. How about using short sections of drain pipe for carrots and peas. Spring onions will grow quite well in modules also as will leeks. Brassica seedlings only go so far in modules unfortunately.

Have you read the section on square foot gardening in the latest KG magazine, it gives some good tips. Herbs and cut and come again lettuce do quite well in pots also.

Good luck

Compo