To add to Cutecumber's post about carrots - I grew (for the first time so have no previous experience to back me up) Amsterdam Forcing carrots in the open ground and in large-ish pots and am still eating both now. Those in the ground pushed each other apart and grew lovely and straight, those in containers are very small, weedy looking specimans of all sorts of strange shapes. I would have thought the opposite would have happened, but there you go! Equally, my two courgettes in pots were over a couple of weeks ago after giving me a very good crop for about 6 weeks, while those in the ground are just coming to their end now - I guess its a question of nutrients? Beans, peas, caulis, potatoes and lettuce all grew very successfully in their pots and I shall definitely be doing the same again next year.

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