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Hi there. I'm new to this forum although I have lurked on occasion. 
I've grown chilli plants for a few years now with varying degrees of success but last year tried growing runner beans. A mega Hippobag filled with compost, bought when Focus closed down, 18 stringless runner bean plants, marked down in price at the local gardening centre, and I was off. The beans certainly ran and ran - we had a glut.
This year, I'm attempting to grow not so many runners but quite a few pea plants using the same Hippobag with extra compost and manure. I've also germinated them all from seeds rather than haunt the reduced section at the garden centre. Slugs are a problem - they managed to find their way into the bag last year and, having tried nematodes with little apparent success, have settled instead for ferric phosphate slug bait.
I have window ledges full of pepper plants (reduced at Tesco) and several cherry bomb chilli plants which were over-wintered inside and am also attempting cherry tomatoes (seed mat reduced at Morrisons) in a container.
To sum up I am new to growing my own but cannot resist a bargain.
I've grown chilli plants for a few years now with varying degrees of success but last year tried growing runner beans. A mega Hippobag filled with compost, bought when Focus closed down, 18 stringless runner bean plants, marked down in price at the local gardening centre, and I was off. The beans certainly ran and ran - we had a glut.
This year, I'm attempting to grow not so many runners but quite a few pea plants using the same Hippobag with extra compost and manure. I've also germinated them all from seeds rather than haunt the reduced section at the garden centre. Slugs are a problem - they managed to find their way into the bag last year and, having tried nematodes with little apparent success, have settled instead for ferric phosphate slug bait.
I have window ledges full of pepper plants (reduced at Tesco) and several cherry bomb chilli plants which were over-wintered inside and am also attempting cherry tomatoes (seed mat reduced at Morrisons) in a container.
To sum up I am new to growing my own but cannot resist a bargain.
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