Can I Still Grow My Own Fruit And Vegetables If I Don’t Have A Garden?
Posted by admin on February 21, 2010
Is there anything I can grow in a pot, I have a conservatory which acts as a lovely sun trap on hot days, I’d like to utilise it the best I can, but unfortunately I don’t ave the facilities to plant anything in the ground outside. Can someone give me inspiration?
Hi there,
There is quite a lot that you can grow in pots. Try:
Cherry tomatoes
Lettuce
Radish
Salad leaves
Spring Onions
Salad Potatoes
Carrots (Parmex type – bred especially for containers)
Dwarf Beans
Sage
Basil
Mint
Rosemary
Lavender
Thyme
Mooli (Chinese Radish)
Sugar snap Peas
Mangetout
Main crop Peas
Spinach
Corn Salad
Rocket
Chives
Garlic
Kiwi Vine (Jenny is self pollinating)
Patio/ Dwarf Apples
Patio/dwarf Pears
Lemon/Lime tree
Strawberries
There are bound to be things that I have missed, but hopefully there is enough here to inspire you in some way. Use a small artist brush to pollinate the toms and strawberries especially if no bees can get to them. In fact I would occasionally hand pollinate all that I am growing inside just to be on the safe side.
Some will be much easier to grow than others, but it is nice to see just what you can grow from a few containers.
Hope this helps, good luck and happy planting
Tomatoes grow especially well in pots, but you can grow just about anything in a pot that you can grow in the ground. You’ll need to water more often, since they don’t get ground moisture that way, though. Make sure your pot is big enough. I wouldn’t put a tomato plant in a pot that’s less than 1 1/2 feet across (1/2 meter). I used to grow tomatoes in pots on my balcony, and they did very well. In fact, I had 4 pots, and I had more tomatoes than I knew what to do with.
All sorts!! Tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, lettuce, garlic, spring onions, radish, herbs, courgettes, strawberries. If you have any outside space, you can grow runner/climbing beans in pots, potatoes, though you won’t get a massive crop of these, and some other varieties like mini carrots and mini sweetcorn.
Thompson and Morgan have a special section on their website, of mini vegetables that you can grow – well worth a look, and its a great feeling when you see them growing and finally pick them!
Have fun!
I have grown Tomatoes, Strawberries, carrots and potatoes all year round in my conservatory.
With a conservatory you will be able to grow almost anything year round. It’s great to be picking fresh tomatoes when there is a foot of snow outside.
The only downside is that you will have to self pollinate them. I do this by using a small fan to blow over the flowers, does the trick.
My advice is experiment.
I live in a townhome and enjoy planter gardening. You should be able to grow most types of tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber, peppers, zucchini, and lettuce. One of my favorite vegetables to grow in containers is leaf lettuce in 36″ planter boxes. There are many other types of vegetables and fruits that you can choose from for your situation and of course any herb is fair game for you. Hope this helps!
There are plenty of items that you can grow in a conservatory as long as you ensure that it does note get too hot.
Examples are tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, aubergine etc. Basically plants you would normally grow in a greenhouse.
We’re growing 9 onion plants in self watering 12″ square pots which according to most people should not work but it is working well.
Vegetable Variety Container Recommendation
Beets Baby Canning windowbox, 5 gallon
Beets Burpee Golden windowbox, 5 gallon
Beets Detroit Dark Red windowbox, 5 gallon
Beets Early Red Ball windowbox, 5 gallon
Beets Early Wonder windowbox, 5 gallon
Beets Little Egypt windowbox, 5 gallon
Beets Red Ace Hybrid windowbox, 5 gallon
Beets Spinel Little Ball windowbox, 5 gallon
Broccoli Any variety but Crusader 5 gallon
Broccoli DeCicco 5 gallon
Broccoli Green Comet 5 gallon
Broccoli Italian green sprouting 5 gallon
Broccoli Super Blenf 5 gallon
Brussel Spouts Any Variety 5 gallon
Brussel Spouts Evesham 5 gallon
Brussel Spouts Jade Cross 5 gallon
Cabbage Baby Head 5 gallon
Cabbage Discovery 5 gallon
Cabbage Dwarf Morden 5 gallon
Cabbage Early Jersey Wakefield 5 gallon
Cabbage Fast Ball 5 gallon
Cabbage Flash 5 gallon
Cabbage Minicole 5 gallon
Cabbage Red Ace 5 gallon
Carrot Baby Spike 10′ Wide, 10″ deep
Carrot Best of the bunch 10′ Wide, 10″ deep
Carrot Danvers Hald Long 10′ Wide, 10″ deep
Carrot Golden nugget 10′ Wide, 10″ deep
Carrot Little Finger windowbox, 12″ deep, 5 gallon
Carrot Nantes 10′ Wide, 10″ deep
Carrot Short and sweet 10′ Wide, 10″ deep
Carrot Short root or round 10′ Wide, 10″ deep
Carrot Thumbelina 5 gallon windowbox, 12″ deep
Carrot Tiny Sweet 10′ Wide, 10″ deep
Chard Any variety 10-12″ Deep
Chinese Cabbage Bok Choy 5 gallon
Chinese Cabbage Burpee Hybrid 5 gallon
Chinese Cabbage Michihi 5 gallon
Chinese Cabbage Wong Bok 5 gallon
Collards Any variety 12″ Deep
Corn F-M Cross 21″ wide, 8″ deep. Need 3 plants per container to assure pollination.
Corn Golden Bantam 21″ wide, 8″ deep. Need 3 plants per container to assure pollination.
Corn Kandy Korn 21″ wide, 8″ deep. Need 3 plants per container to assure pollination.
Corn Precocious 21″ wide, 8″ deep. Need 3 plants per container to assure pollination.
Corn Space saving varieties 21″ wide, 8″ deep. Need 3 plants per container to assure pollination.
Cucumbers Burpee Hybrid II 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Burpee Pickler 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Burpless 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Bush crop 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Bush Pickle 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Crispy 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Early Pik 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Fanfare 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Liberty 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Patio Pik 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Pickalot 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Picklebush 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Pot Luck 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Salad Bush Hybrid 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Salty 1 plant per gallon
Cucumbers Spacemaster 1 plant per gallon
Eggplant Bambino 3 gallon
Eggplant Black Beauty 3 gallon
Eggplant Dusty 3 gallon
Eggplant Ichiban 3 gallon
Eggplant Millionaire 3 gallon
Eggplant Morden Midget 3 gallon
Eggplant Rosa Bianca 3 gallon
Eggplant Slim Jim 3 gallon
Garlic Most 8″ deep container
Green Beans (Pole beans give a higher yield in a small footprint) Blue Lake windowbox, 5 gallon
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Green Beans Bush Romano windowbox, 5 gallon
Green Beans Contender windowbox, 5 gallon
Green Beans French Dwarf windowbox, 5 gallon
Green Beans Greencrop windowbox, 5 gallon
Green Beans Kentucky Wonder windowbox, 5 gallon
Green Beans Tavera windowbox, 5 gallon
Green Beans Tender Crop windowbox, 5 gallon
Green Beans Tendercrop Stringless windowbox, 5 gallon
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Green Onions Beltsville Bunching 12″ Deep
Green Onions Crysal Wax 12″ Deep
Green Onions Evergreen Bunching 12″ Deep
Horseradish Maliner Kren 5 gallon
Kale Any Variety 8″ wide, 8″ Dep
Kohlrabi Grand Duke 12″ Deep
Leaf Lettuce Beuttercrunch windowbox, 5 gallon
Leaf Lettuce Bibb windowbox, 5 gallon
Leaf Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson windowbox, 5 gallon
Leaf Lettuce Buttercrunch windowbox, 5 gallon
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Leaf Lettuce Grand Rapids windowbox, 5 gallon
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Leaf Lettuce Red Sails windowbox, 5 gallon
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Lima Beans White Dixie Wonder windowbox, 5 gallon
Lima Beans Wonder Bush windowbox, 5 gallon
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Onions Japanese Bunching 10-12″ Deep
Onions Pickling PBR 10-12″ Deep
Onions white pear 10-12″ Deep
Onions White Sweet spanish 5 gallon
Onions Yellow Sweet Spanish 5 gallon
Parsley Evergreen
Parsley Moss Curled
Peas Burpee Blue Batman 12″ Deep
Peas
Absolutely!
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Yes! You can grow all kinds of herbs in pots. You can buy seeds @ Walmart or Target’s garden centers. Try a hydroponics system if you want to grow vegetables. They’ll grow twice as fast as usual!
Heres a budget friendly hydroponics set:http://www.target.com/Mini-Hydroponic-Gr…
If you don’t have enough room it is hard to plant fruit and vegetables. i have seen some indoor tomato growers on skymall.com. Another suggestion I have is to get a planter outside the window to plant for small veggies. However, typically fruit plants get much bigger so it is a bit tough.
Another thing is that you can grow herbs in small pots by your window (to get sun).
Radishes! Bulb and edible-leaf. They take about 4 weeks to grow. Just grow in a tray (old fruit punnets are OK). That’s a start.
Herbs need little space (OK so they won’t make a main course) and grow quickly. Try fenugreek if you cook curries; either use the leaves or let them go to seed and grind those. Coriander grows quickly (although I can never keep it). You can buy little packs of 5 herb seeds in the UK (Homebase do them) for about £3.
Globe carrots? They don’t need a lot of soil depth. Just have a go!
Oh my, there are so many choices with growing your own mini garden indoors or even on a patio.
There are even small greenhouses that you can buy to put right out your door or even inside.
Herbs, fruit, vegies.
Go to these sites and you will find what you are looking for:
http://www.pronto.com/mpm/search-indoor-green…
http://www.allgreenhouses.com
CHILI PLANTS.
Sorry, i love them
Get them small, they love being indoors.
Spring onion, Tomatos, Strawberrys, Potatos.
As long as you have windows with sun coming into your home you can grow stuff
Well cherry tomatoes can be grown if you put them in the window. Maybe strawberries too?
But it’s very limited and won’t give you much outcome. So I’d probably go with strawberries (If they’re growable in your climate)
Depends on the seeds you use. You need magic seeds!!!! But beware, angry giants have been spoted around theese magic beans!
plant in tubs any think you want