half a grow bag

[Sonata]

I've got two courgettes in one grow bag and my insurance one seems to be doing well as well (grrr!), so I'm going to put it in another. What can I pop on the other side to keep it company? It'll be lying flat on it's back..the grow bag that is.

I'm not going to bother with grow bags next year!

[chriscross1966]

Couple of chilli plants?.... an aubergine? a physalis of some kind? one of the less agressive squashes?

chrisc

[COMPOST CORNER]

Couple of chilli plants?.... an aubergine? a physalis of some kind? one of the less agressive squashes?
chrisc

Is there a less agressive squash? I have pumkins, butternut, courgette, patty pan, and another I forget the name of, all seem to be related to triffids!

[sarraceniac]

Anything that Chris suggests or a cucumber (as long as you remember it is not a courgette). Even a tomato or some cut and come again lettuce or.... the mind boggles. Anything that will fit really.

I agree about growbags. I haven't bothered this year. Just bought large bags of compost and a load of flower buckets from Morrisons. Everything is doing better and is more manageable.

[Sonata]

Hmm, I was going to plant it with a cuke, but I'd already planted it out and now it's flowering, I don't want to move it.

I have 3 butternut squashes too, so maybe one of them..and I can try and train them away from one another. Or is that crazy-talk?

[cupcake]

To make life (and watering) easier, why don't you separate the compost to each end of the gro-bag, then cut down the middle and stand on their ends. Et voila! you will have 2 big pots which will be far easier to water and feed. (probably need some extra holes making tho.

[chriscross1966]

If you're going to put a butternut in there then you'll need to make some sort of drip-feed arrangement for watering.... get a 3 litre (or bigger) bottle, and glue in a hose adapter near the bottom, add a dripper head and put at the squash end, in fact with a courgette in there it wouldn't be a bad idea to have one for each end.... This guy eBay.co.uk Shop ? All Seasons Gardener: Search results for. does all the bits for what appears to be sane prices....

chrisc