Container growing Lettuce & carrots

[juststartingtoms]

Hi All

Looking for some advice please

I'm looking to add to my container veg garden & picked up 8 of the black flower buckets (for 99p) at morrisons last night whilst shopping.

So you will all know the size of these buckets, as carrots & lettuce are sown directly into the final place (according to the seed packet) should i only allocate a couple of carrot seeds (Nantes 2), with a lot of spacing in one of these & only 2 lettuce seeds (Cos lettuce)?

Also i have some miracle grow soil left, will this be ok?

Any advice appreciated

[Katiekins]

Have you already got the seeds??

Cos if not I would recommend you buy a packet of mixed leaf seeds. The one I think it Suttons Speedy Seeds Italian Mix. You end up with leaves like you would buy in a bag from the surmarket and would be the best idea for continers.

We've got little gem and I'd say you'd fit 3 or 4 in a flower bucket, but maybe sow a few seeds in clusters & prick out the weaker ones.

[juststartingtoms]

Originally Posted by Katiekins

Have you already got the seeds??

Cos if not I would recommend you buy a packet of mixed leaf seeds. The one I think it Suttons Speedy Seeds Italian Mix. You end up with leaves like you would buy in a bag from the surmarket and would be the best idea for continers.

We've got little gem and I'd say you'd fit 3 or 4 in a flower bucket, but maybe sow a few seeds in clusters & prick out the weaker ones.

Thanks Katiekins

I got the seeds free, but i think i'll go with your advice & try the mixed ones Would you sow quite a lot of seeds then from the mixed leaves seed?

Thanks

[Lady of Shallots]

Hiya, I found this vid on gardeners world website quite useful on growing salad in a container - I've followed theadvice and mine seem to be coming along well! Looking forward to eating them now

Growing vegetables - grow salad leaves from seed | How to | Projects | BBC Gardeners' World

[tigerella]

Hi,
I grow mixed lettuce, the cut and come again type in seed trays and sow some every other week or so for a successional supply. They grow quite happily in the shallower trays. My tortoise loves to devour them if he can

As for carrots in containers, I like to grow the golf ball size Parmex (mostly for my rabbits and guinea pigs who prefer tops). I sprinkle liberally over the surface and thin out as the seedlings grow.

I am trying cos lettuce in growbags for the first time too.

[juststartingtoms]

Originally Posted by Lady of Shallots

Hiya, I found this vid on gardeners world website quite useful on growing salad in a container - I've followed theadvice and mine seem to be coming along well! Looking forward to eating them now

Growing vegetables - grow salad leaves from seed | How to | Projects | BBC Gardeners' World

Brilliant Lady of Shallots, really useful thanks , i have sown some salad leaves & carrots so we'll see how it goes . . .

Tigerella - Thanks may try parmex next i'd like to see some pics of your tortoise, always been fascinated by them! Also your rabbits & guinea pigs, i love animals

[tigerella]

Originally Posted by juststartingtoms

Brilliant Lady of Shallots, really useful thanks , i have sown some salad leaves & carrots so we'll see how it goes . . .

Tigerella - Thanks may try parmex next i'd like to see some pics of your tortoise, always been fascinated by them! Also your rabbits & guinea pigs, i love animals

Hi, you'll regret asking for pix as I'll probably bore you stupid I'll see what I can dig out later.

[Lady of Shallots]

Originally Posted by juststartingtoms

Brilliant Lady of Shallots, really useful thanks , i have sown some salad leaves & carrots so we'll see how it goes . . .

Tigerella - Thanks may try parmex next i'd like to see some pics of your tortoise, always been fascinated by them! Also your rabbits & guinea pigs, i love animals

Happy to help! My salad leaves seedlings have just started coming through, yay! Pics will be here when they're a bit bigger

[juststartingtoms]

Great! You can never get bored with photo's