Veggies in tubs

[ksmerd]

I don't have any ground as such just a girt flat fibre glass roof which I am slowly trying to develop. I have a couple of biggish plastic storage boxs 640 long 400 wide and 300 deep in which I have drilled some drainage. Are these deep enough for dwarf french beans (Tendercrop) and peas (Early Onward) and can I plant them a bit closer together row wise?

[SarzWix]

I've moved your thread out of Growing Techniques and onto an appropriate board.

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ard_36376.html

[BumbleB]

I don't have any ground as such just a girt flat fibre glass roof which I am slowly trying to develop. I have a couple of biggish plastic storage boxs 640 long 400 wide and 300 deep in which I have drilled some drainage. Are these deep enough for dwarf french beans (Tendercrop) and peas (Early Onward) and can I plant them a bit closer together row wise?

Sounds fine to me. Also check out the container veggies thread.

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...read_5662.html

[Polly Fouracre]

I have courgettes. tendersnax carrots, dwarf runner beans (Hestia) Bush tomatoes and dwarf bush beans in containers, all growing close together ( apart from courgettes) and doing well. Go for it , you can only succeed or fail. Good luck.
P.S my step-grandaughter has got cauliflowers in tubs. We all shook our heads sadly and said nothing would come of them but she has a crop of beautiful caullies, each one at least big enough for two people and all firm and healthy!

[singleseeder]

You can grow a variety of things in boxes that size, just experiment. Just take care of the weight of them all on your roof though..

[NOG]

As long as you feed and water them enought you can plant what ever you want in pots. Peas are big feeders so will need a weekly feed.

[Rabidbun]

I did peas this year in pots - around 30cm deep and 40cm wide. Had around 14 plants per pot (which took some staking to make sure they didn't tip over ). Added pelleted chicken manure to save on the feeding (I am lazy ) - two half teacups to the compost before I planted and one half teacup as a top dressing. Had the best crop of peas we've ever had from them and they didn't take up my raised bed space as in the previous two years.

Three out of five pots did better than the others, we had added a "bea and bean booster" to those ones, so might be worth keeping eye open for that too, though we had a great crop still from the ones without the booster bacteria!

Edit: They did take some watering though as they dried out quite fast with that many plants in em!