mictogirl Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Hi All. Hope someone can advise me if this will work. Since my plan for raised beds has been delayed (long story), this year I am sowing / planting veg in big tubs on my patio instead. So far I've got carrots, beets, lettuce, spring onions and leeks, just hope they all germinate! Anyway, I have germinated inside on my windowsill courgettes (way too many it has to be said!), cucumbers and pumpkins and was hoping when it was time to plant them out I could also do them in tubs? I know eg pumpkins take up a lot of room, but can you train them up a cane wigwam or something? The pumpkins are only a small variety, the courgettes and cucumbers 'normal' size varieties. Does anyone know if it'll work? Thanks in advance, Laura. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I grew a courgette in a belfast sink last year,with great sucess. Mind you,I seem unable to ever kill a courgette The same sink, which is smallish, not especially deep & has daffodil bulbs in too, is being used for a Q this summer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mictogirl Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 Thanks Cinnamon, that has given me some hope! I was given a small courgette plant last year which I stuck in a flower bed from lack of anywhere else to put it, and it was devoured by snails / slugs within 2 days Hopefully I'll have better luck with the pots this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 My mum grows cucumbers in pots ok - they are about 20cm diameter or more though I am not sure about the pumpkins, you can get ones that grow up teepees but not all will I believe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenanne Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Both cucumbers and courgettes will be fine in big pots, kept well watered. I've grown them like this before and it's always been really succesful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 They should grow well up a wigwam of canes - I grow large cucumbers like that and you've got a small variety of pumpkins...... give it a go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 I grow my courgettes in pots in the greenhouse and also butternut squash in pots in greenhouse too. I have cucumbers too this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 One year we went on holiday and came home to find a vine and squash had grown up among the runner beans. I hadn't noticed as the beans were very leafy and dense and we had a bumper crop that year. When I went to pick the beans I found this biggish squash - bigger than my hand, hanging from the pole at about head height. Some old squash seeds had been in the compost and germinated in the trench! I didn't even spot the yellow flowers! So yep, you can grow them up poles alright! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Oo - I have a gap in my peas where a mouse got some, so I might bung a Squash in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Cucumbers will grow fine in really big flower pots. LMW always grows her 'pet' cucumbers in them...........most pampered plants ever those cucumbers ( she eats cucumber by the ton ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Cinnamon - you may as well try it - Bob Flowerdew says that curcurbits do well with beans, nasturtiums, peas and sweetcorn - but hate potatoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Ah, well the peas are in front of the potatoes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Ooopsie! Had a look with regard to peas - he says they like beans, carrots, turnips, curcurbits and sweetcorn but hate onions and garlic. You might be OK - didn't say they don't like them. I tend to use his chart to squeeze everything in. This year I have tons of space where the girls have got rid of my flowers. And - I have one butternut sprouting whoohoo. It might just get trained up a pole after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 I cheated & bought mine from th Farmers Market today Still, at least I have something to plant now........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I had courgettes and pumpkins in grow bags last year. I gave my nan a pumpkin plant and she put it in a hanging basket! - It didn't stay in there for long once it got growing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
