Shallow beds

[scotti]

Have space on patio to place a 1x2 m bed with a depth of approx 200 mm. The undersurface will be concrete. What veg is suitable for shallow roots and could I get away with growing the round carrot instead of the long variety?

[terrier]

Sounds like a big grow bag to me. Any shallow rooted plant that can be grown in a grow bag will be ok. I'd have lots of mixed salad and herbs. Tomatoes in bottomless pots will root into the growing medium and your round carrots should be fine. Grow some French Marigolds as well to keep the flying pests away.

[Hans Mum]

you could do raddishes, spring onions, as well

[lottielady]

I have just done the same and have a bed 3m x 1m and have made 2m of it 30cm deep and the rest 15cm deep. My thinking was salad crops, radishes, baby turnips and spring onions just so I can keep an eye on them and the slugs. Have planted a few bits under cover so we will have to wait and see.

[smallblueplanet]

What difference is your 'shallow' raised bed to others growing stuff in pots, or as terrier says a big growbag? How deep are the buckets that some Grapes grow spuds in? There was a thread not long ago about growing dwarf french beans in a window box.

I'd have thought that providing you chose a variety that is amenable to being grown in a pot then you could grow anything you wanted in your long, shallow bed?