Back in December 08 I ordered 3 earthboxes with one climbing frame. Work on my garden as taken alot of time during the winter and I haven’t had time to think about what to grow in my earthboxes this year.
Empty Earthboxes
Background on Earthboxes
According to the Earthbox web site one earthbox can support 16 bean or [...]
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I’ve got 6 large containers and 3 bags to grow my potatoes.
See Growing Vegetables On Patio - Buckets And Grow Tubs – Option 1 for introduction.
Each Container/bag was filled with a layer of gravel.
5 cm (2″) of Mels Mix was laid over the gavel
5 chitted seed potatoes were evenly spread around the container
Seed Potatoes in [...]
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Part 1 -Growing Strawberries In Containers On Patio
This is part 2 of a series on growing strawberries in a container on my patio.
The Strawberry Tub I chose was from Dobies, mainly because it came with a fruit net and held upto 34 strawberry plants. I have order 20 plants to get me going. I will [...]
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My family like the idea of fresh juicy home grown strawberries. We have tried to grow strawberries in tubs and containers on our patio in the past with out much luck.
At the moment I want to use my square foot garden raised beds for vegetables so will try again to grow strawberries in a [...]
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I have purchased two sets of Suttons 3 Grow tubs plus 3 Potato Buckets. This review covers the Grow Tubs and how useful they are for growing vegetables on my south facing patio. I’m going to use the tubs to grow broad beans, peas and dwarf beans.
Patio Grow tub
The manufactures blurb says
“Growtubs – Diameter 28cm [...]
This is part 2 of my Link A Bord review
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The weather has been bright but cold for the last few days.
I’ve added some “squares” to my link a bord system. The link a bord has 1m sides, which meant that I could have 9 13inch – 33cm squares. To make [...]
The Link a Bord system is promoted as the ideal way to create an easy to manage bed system for growing your own vegetables. Link a Bord raised beds are free draining, easily accessed, easily warming and particularly useful to help you get better results on poor soils.
The unique Link a bord system consists of [...]
I found EarthBox® Gardening System whilst browsing the web.
“The organic solution!! Vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers grow bigger, tastier and faster in the EarthBox®.
Includes: 1 EarthBox®, 1 Aeration Screen, 1 Water Fill Tube, 2 Fitted Covers, 4 Castors, 760gm Bag of 5-6-6 Organic Fertiliser, 450gm Bag of Natural Dolomite w/ Trace Elements and full [...]
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Option 1 – Sutton Buckets/Grow Tubs The first review I’m going to try is using three Potatoes and three Grow Tubs from Suttons. The intention will be to grow Potatoes, Beans and Peas. Suttons are doing a deal on 3 Growtubs plus 3 Potato Buckets
Potato Patio Bucket Planter
” Giant Potato Buckets – Height 40cm (15¾”); [...]
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Suttons are providing an Instant Vegetable Patch (for Spring Sowing), consisting of 1m*1m raised bed (Link-a-bord Raised Bed [...]
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