7 May 2025
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There’s plenty of delicious crops you can grow in pots, writes Chris Collins, Garden Organic’s head of horticulture.
special blank space should n’t limit your ability to grow thing to eat . On my balcony , I harvest all kinds of organic greens , herbs and sun - snog vegetables – and there ’s nothing good than picking them super overbold .
A trough fill with cut - and - add up - again salads , spinach , rocket and spring onion is an gentle space to start . Fill a 25cm - by-25 cm trough with peat - loose compost , and sow thickly in practice session 8 in ( 20 cm ) apart . I like to inter - sow with fresh practice session every three to four weeks to check a constant supply .
Potatoes also produce well in hessian sack . meet a quarter of the sack with compost and position four germ tater ( preferably chitted ) into the compost . As the plants grow , add more refreshful compost to enshroud the growing shoots until you get through the top . They ’ll be quick in eight to 10 week , look on conditions .
you’re able to grow vertically too , with string up field goal of strawberry and genus Nasturtium ( great for bees and salads ) . Plant in the top and through the side for a bumper craw . Strawberries develop nicely in recycle pallets , dustbin and bucket too .
If you have a somewhat bigger garden or a patio , you could ramp up a 3 ft x 3 ft ( 1 m x 1 m ) square raised bed from old pallet Sir Henry Joseph Wood , ensuring it ’s 12 in ( 30 cm ) bass for root word crop . Divide it into 12 sections and plant up each little section with a different harvest such as anthesis herbs , radish , Daucus carota sativa , lettuce , Beta vulgaris rubra and leaping onion . This will allow you to create a full , delicious constituent vegetable garden in miniature !
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Mix of veg on Chris’s balcony
Question and Answer
Q. What herbs can I grow on a windowsill ?
A. voiced - foliaged herb such as basil , coriander and parsley will take easily from seed now that the days are let longer . Alternatively , grow some recurrent herbs such as rosemary , lemon balm and marjoram in a reprocess crate , with peat - free compost and 25 % silver gray sand . These can be lifted out and divided every match of years to make newfangled plants .
Get creative what you grow in
Q. Can you recommend pretty vegetables to grow among my heyday ?
A. Speckled and one-sided lettuce , rainbow Swiss chard and full-bodied red Beta vulgaris rubra leaves make a stunning backdrop for flowers . pea plant and beans look lovely climbing up a small wigwam of sticks and are neat for pollinator .
Q. What kind of compost is best for containers ?
Hertitage Seed Library salads, herbs, broad beans, beetroot in square bed
A. My perfect commixture is a becoming lineament , multipurpose , peat - free compost with 20 % sharp sand or gravel , 20 % loam , and a few comfrey shot . This can be top - dressed with some homemade compost from time to clock time .
