Am I Being Crazy? You Can Be Honest

[vegnut]

I'll make this short and to the point. Grow em all

[Iamhanuman]

I'll make this short and to the point. Grow em all

thanks vegnut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eyren]

The tub I have is about that diameter but only maybe 45cm deep. i was thinking 5 plants too, in a block formation.
Beans and maybe courgette in there too to climb up

In our climate, the corn often doesn't grow big/fast enough to support climbing beans, so you might want some canes in there as backup. Also, make sure you mix in some pelleted chicken manure or similar - courgette plants are greedy, and you want to make sure there's enough nutrients for all the plants in there!

[Iamhanuman]

In our climate, the corn often doesn't grow big/fast enough to support climbing beans, so you might want some canes in there as backup. Also, make sure you mix in some pelleted chicken manure or similar - courgette plants are greedy, and you want to make sure there's enough nutrients for all the plants in there!

i will bear all that in mind - can you recommend any particular brand?

[Hazel at the Hill]

I've looked at you list and would put the seeds into groups

Legumes:
French Beans (Dwarf) Stanley

Brassicas:
Cabbage Sparkel F1

Roots:
Carrot Paris Market 4
Garlic Sultop Bulbs

Everything else:
Cape Gooseberry
Pumpkin Orbit F1
Tomato Red Alert
Courgette Sicilian Long White
Sweetcorn Earlibird F1
Tomatillo Verde
Red Perilla (Shiso)
Tomato Garden Pearl
Lettuce Red & Green Mixed
Rocket

Herbs:
Rosemary
Mint
Basil Gecofure
Cilantro
Marigold (Dwarf French) Naughty Marietta
Winter Savory
Welsh Onion
Salad Burnet
Chinese Chives New Belt

Potatoes:
Epicure First Earlies Potatoes
Edzell Blue Second Earlies Potatoes

Put like minded plants together.

Most things will do well enough in containers - although most things will prefer to be in the ground - certainly from an irrigation and feed point of view.

Sweetcorn is an 'everything else' and at the Hill last year each plant of T&M Supersweet f1 gave me three fine cobs - most of which were scoffed there and then.

Squash are greed feeders, monster plants and produce either
(a) oodles of little fruit (I had about 40 pomme d'or off one plant last year)
(b) a smaller number larger fruit (redmolo or similar - about 8 fruit off each plant)
(c) monster prize winner 1 off giant pumpkin (don't advise this - frankly, you won't wn at the show, and it wont taste great either.

Hope this helps.

[Eyren]

i will bear all that in mind - can you recommend any particular brand?

Sorry, no, I get my chicken manure straight from the supplier - my bantams

[taff]

No, you're not crazy, it's called enthusiasm
You should see my list....
Gooseberries can be trained along a fence if you have one, or trellis.

[FionaH]

i will bear all that in mind - can you recommend any particular brand?

Just got some dirt cheap in Wilkies

[Iamhanuman]

didn't know Wilkinsons did chicken poo?
will have to remember that Fiona.

Thanks Hazel for grouping the list for me.
Are you suggesting I grow combinations of those 'likeminded' ones together or the whole darned lot? bearing in mind of course that I have mostly containers.

i have already planted some carrots and garlic together and was planning on sticking some tomatoes in with some basil and marigolds

[JamesA]

Ive ended up buying far more seeds than ive got room to plant and my seed box is full to bursting point! Luckily mum has quite a bit of space a her place and we have just been eyeing up the lawn with a view to pulling more of it up to make room for more veg! Dad wont mind as its less mowing for him

[pinkle]

You may be crazy planting Salad Burnet, I'm always pulling the stuff up!
I was given a single pumpkin plant last year (my first weeks of having an allotment) and I picked most of the flowers so that I'd get a decent sized pumpkin.... that was crazy! It was so huge we had trouble managing it and the freezer is full to bursting with cubed pumpkin. I'm hoping to grow my beans up my sweetcorn but not in a container. I grew my carrots in large container last year and plan to again as they were the best carrots ever. This helps prevent carrot fly and because they are in soft compost instead of stony soil they can grow straight (if you leave them to grow long enough for it to make a difference.) I was also given some cabbage plants last year (I had a magic wheelbarrow that kept producing these plants from nowhere!) but between the birds, caterpillars and rabbits they were eaten to nothing as were my cauliflowers and sprouts so I think i'll give brassicas a miss. I would also say that one courgette plant was more than enough for us. They are quite prolific.
Good luck.
Pinkle

[Eyren]

Brassicas do need netting in summer and early autumn, as I learnt to my cost last year Not a reason not to grow them, though!

[Pickle]

This is also my first proper year of growing things (have dabbled a bit in the past) and I have a similar length list to you. In fact, I may even be adding to it as I keep thinking of new things and reading on here of things that I'd like to plant/grow!
My raised flower beds are on their way to me (hopefully soon!) and I now have a greenhouse too plus I'll be investing in a lot more tubs too.

I can't wait to get going and really get my hands dirty!

[Iamhanuman]

wow it took me a minute to realise there were two different Grapes posting!
Pinkle and Pickle, both having joined in March!
Welcome to the both of you!!!

PICKLE - what raised beds are you purchasing?

PINKLE - I'll bear that in mind about the pumpkin!!

[Pickle]

We've bought some of the wooden ones from Harrod Horticultural. In hindsight we could probably have done things a lot cheaper and made our own but with my husband working so much I just don't know when we could have built our own. (I'm not very handy when it comes to building things!)

Thanks for the welcome Oh and had to check myself that it wasn't me who posted earlier when I saw a reply from Pinkle!