Hanging basket ideas

[cottage garden]

I was lucky enough to get about 20 hanging baskets from freecycle, not in the best condition but perfectly useable and I thought I would hang them both inside and outside of the greenhouse etc with edible crops in them. Strawberries to prevent slugs were an idea as the little blighters ravaged nearly all my fruit last year!

Any other ideas?

[HeyWayne]

tumbling toms?

[cottage garden]

Of course! They would be great wouldn't they. I have only ever grown cordons before but I'm up for a new experience. There are yellow ones as well aren't there. Hmmm

[Flummery]

You can also fill them with herbs. Wait till the frosts are over for basil, but parsley, chives, oregano, all do ok in baskets. Handy by the kitchen door!

[number 1 suspect]

had so many tumbling toms last year i had to put some through the dehydrator and store them in olive oil infused with basil.......... Still got 4 fars mmmmm... All of that little lot came from 5 hanging baskets

[cottage garden]

Do you just plant one tomato plant in a basket or two. I could plant some herbs next to it..

[veg4681]

You don't need to have the same tumbling/trailing tomato variety in various baskets. Pick and grow a few from the choice of Tumbling Tom Red/Yellow, Tumbler F1, Balconi Red/Yellow, Gartenperle, Masktoka, Minibel, Yellow Pigmy etc.

You can most certainly grow strawberry in basket and especially the alpine ones (Mignonette) are supposedly very sweet (therefore tasty).

I think few selection of low growing annual herbs might go down well in a hanging basket. You could experiment with mixed baby leaf salads which will definitely force you to eat them as baby .

Cranberry can be grown in hanging basket but needs ericaceous compost, ideal for making your own premium quality cranberry sauce for Crimbo turkey.

You could try trailing mangetout as an experiment but I'm not 100% sure this would work though. Can anyone tell me if French bush/dwarf bean would suitable for hanging basket?

Here's a website on container growing that also has stuffs for the hanging basket.

Container Gardening

[cottage garden]

Thank you Veg4681. I love the idea on your web site of growing carrots (mini of course) they would certainly avoid carrotfly wouldn't they!!

[veg4681]

Thank you Veg4681. I love the idea on your web site of growing carrots (mini of course) they would certainly avoid carrotfly wouldn't they!!

Sorry I don't have a website , must be someone else blog .

[cottage garden]

Here's a website on container growing that also has stuffs for the hanging basket.

Container Gardening

I'm not going mad, am I?!?!

[Two_Sheds]

Whatever you grow, you'll need to keep it really well watered - hanging baskets dry out PDQ

[Cutecumber]

Two_sheds has hit the proverbial nail on the head...

Baskets have little depth of compost, and this makes them a tricky environment for growing vegetables and fruit. Do whatever you can to keep the growing media moist - add those gel granule things and coarse seaweed for example, and use a good quality compost.

I've grown tumbling tomatoes before in a basket and they did crop, but I grew just one plant along with some tagetes. There is an issue of weight once the fruit starts growing - you will need strong supports. Despite the challenges, it is, of course, a great way of keeping of those naughty slugs and snails

Strawberries - particularly the small alpine or woodland varieties - are probably a little more suitable. The good thing is that you can always plant them out in the ground if you get fed up with watering the baskets and they should keep producing for a few more years.

Diversification is the key to your success - do lots of baskets with different things in each and you will learn what works and what doesn't.

[cottage garden]

. Despite the challenges, it is, of course, a great way of keeping of those naughty slugs and snails

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Hmm.yes Maybe I should try planting my brassicas up there. Can you imagine, a row of baskets with a cabbage in each

Mind you, it would be like a table for the pidgeons

[Cutecumber]

he he!

isn't gardening a nightmare

[gardenplot]

he he!

isn't gardening a nightmare

a nightmae of fun "Experimenting every thing that grows in soil " gardening is fun thats why we have bad backs and green fingers LOL