Containers

  • Growing In Small Spaces: Hanging Gardens Of Plenty

    Growing In Small Spaces: Hanging Gardens Of Plenty

    Ben Vanheem offers more inspiration for great hanging pots and containers to grow fruit and veg.

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  • Bag up your veg

    Bag up your veg

    Why not make use of the growing-bag to grow some great crops. The growing-bag is the perfect self contained veg-growing kit and averycosteffective method of container growing.

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  • Growing in containers

    Growing in containers

    So, what’s a container? This depends on what crops you are growing, for example lettuce and salad leaves can be grown in quite shallow containers. A small trough 17cm (7in) deep and 30cm (12in) long would suffice for a few…

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  • Nothing like a bit of beetroot!

    Nothing like a bit of beetroot!

    Beetroot is a bit of a favourite with many of us and so easy to grow too! If you don’t have a lot of space, they do well in pots. Containers should be about 22cm(9in) deep and 22cm(9in) wide. Fill…

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  • Recycle your compost bags

    Recycle your compost bags

    Don’t throw your compost bags away, you can use them for container growing, especially early potatoes…. Compost bags are ideal as containers for growing early potatoes. So here’s how to do it: Roll the sides of each bag down half…

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