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Hi folks,

Could anyone tell me what veg I can realistically grow in 5in pots?


Thanks…………..Broadway

I think you'd get some small crops of salad leaves (cut and come again or picking as baby leaves), and spring onions. Personally, that's all I can see you getting to eating size, but other grapes may prove me wrong.

I've grown some of the smaller type chillies in 5" pots this year. Cheyenne, I think they were. They might have grown bigger in larger pots but they were fine with judicious feeding and watering.

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Herbs? Basil, parsley, chives spring to mind?

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A good use for 5" pots is for the leftover tomato plants you invariably have if you grow your own from seed. Pop the spare plants individually into the pots and stop the plants at two leaves past the first truss. This will give you one truss of early tomatoes per pot which a 5" pot will cope with adequaely!

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How about Garlic? One clove per pot?

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Chilli plants - Cheyenne as mentioned or Apache.
Assorted herbs
Spring onions
I use 5" pots (1 litre capacity) to start my leeks in. About 20 - 30 seeds per pot.

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5 inch pots are very limiting, I'm afraid.

Some herbs, yes - try some rocket or basil, they would be ideal.
Chillis,yes, Apache will work - mine produced in 5 inch pots this year. They need a lot of food and water, though.

Garlic - no, not enough space.

Garlic need a deep pot for the root system.

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hee hee,
I read your title as " Sin Pots ", and was imaging some kind of sin bin for naughty OHs

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So did I initially Two Sheds. I couldn't decide if it was a plant pot for naughty foodstuff or a kind of wicked potato!

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