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[mictogirl]

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.

[Cinnamon]

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

[mictogirl]

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!

[Redwing]

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

[chickenanne]

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!

[Lesley]

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!

[Blackrocksrock]

I grow my courgettes in pots in the greenhouse and also butternut squash in pots in greenhouse too. I have cucumbers too this year.

[Valkyrie]

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!

[Cinnamon]

Oo - I have a gap in my peas where a mouse got some, so I might bung a Squash in there

[Mrs Webmuppet]

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 )

[Valkyrie]

Cinnamon - you may as well try it - Bob Flowerdew says that curcurbits do well with beans, nasturtiums, peas and sweetcorn - but hate potatoes.

[Cinnamon]

Ah, well the peas are in front of the potatoes

[Valkyrie]

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.

[Cinnamon]

I cheated & bought mine from th Farmers Market today

Still, at least I have something to plant now...........

[Lewis]

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