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  • #46
    Will do V/C.

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    • #47
      Originally posted by mic View Post
      Carrots, corn, spuds, cucumber and green beans



      I wish my greenhouse was that tidy, well done..

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      • #48
        salad blue ,highland burgundy and charlotte are all showing now (9 tubs) and the fruit tubs all seem to be in blossom, first year for honeyberry so we will get to see what they taste like, it looks like being a bumper year for figs and apricots, I must just wait for them now..

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        • #49
          I finally managed to get hold of some last month, and last week I sat and lovingly drilled holes in them all for drainage (if you use a reasonably small drill bit they dont shatter). Yesterday I did two tubs of chantenay carrots, splitting and transplanting the seedlings by hand. I'll probably go back over and do some more tomorrow, and possibly transplant some dwarf french beans into another couple of tubs.

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          • #50
            I use a metal skewer heated in the gas ring or with a blow lamp to put the holes in

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            • #51
              Well... the remnants of last year's tomato plants were in mine until this week. Soon, hopefully, to be filled with this year's lot. I usually grow Charlotte potatoes in them too but seeing as no one actually wants to eat them, I'll give them a miss this year.

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              • #52
                Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
                I use a metal skewer heated in the gas ring or with a blow lamp to put the holes in
                If you make the holes in the side of the buckets instead of the bottom you can create a reservoir for water. About an inch up from the bottom they are also much stronger in that area.
                Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                • #53
                  My razzer ruby beautys have gone in MFBs this weekend. Feels like progress!

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                  • #54
                    The kids spent the weekend planting their seeds in them, my daughter (9) went for wild strawberries, Echinacea and marigolds. My son (3) went for chives (I told him to get his own as he is always in the garden eating mine). I put in some wild garlic and something else I cant remember.
                    Be Vegan

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                    • #55
                      Potatoes and some dwarf green beans, may plant mint in one.

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                      • #56
                        Kale, potatoes, and more carrots.
                        Location....East Midlands.

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                        • #57
                          Mine are providing temporary homes for strawberries, asparagus, courgettes, squash, rhubarb, gooseberry and a blackcurrant - they're very busy!

                          One chilli has managed to wangle its way in - the rest are still deciding whether or not 5 leaves is more than enough and no more are needed - then they'll be heading into their MFB's for the rest of the season

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                          • #58
                            For the first time this year, I've hung pots along the side of my polytunnel with strawberry plants in them, got really early strawberries.

                            When they're done, I'll replace them with trailing tomatoes (fourth pot already replaced)

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                            • #59
                              Potatoes
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                              I only took a few out.

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by Ms-T View Post
                                Potatoes
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                                I only took a few out.
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