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  • #1

    Container Depths

    I've got hold of some very nice wooden wine boxes that I would love to use for growing stuff in, but they're all quite shallow (7/8 inches) I realize that some of the vegetables I'm growing will need more depth than that, but is there anything I can grow in these boxes? Lettuces and herbs maybe? And I've heard conflicting things about tomatoes, do they grow mostly down or do their roots spread out sideways?

    Please help, it would be such a shame not to use any of these boxes, because they are very nice and I have loads of them now!

    What I'm planning to grow:
    Tomatoes - Red Robin, Gardeners Delight & Millefleur
    Cucumber - Crystal Lemon
    Sweet Peppers - Sunnybrook
    Aubergines - Diamond
    Alpine Strawberries
    Carrots - Paris Market (small and round like a golf ball)
    Rainbow Chard
    Pea - Sugar Bon
    Lettuce
    Potatoes - Anya
    Onions
    Garlic
    Various herbs

    and flowers:

    Nasturtiums
    Brugmansia Arborea
    Last edited by rainbox; 20-02-2009, 01:00 PM.
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  • #2
    Your boxes should be fine for cut & come again type salads, such as Salad Bowl and other loose leaf types, and most of the annual herbs.
    They'd be too shallow for most of your other stuff though I think. Although I'm happy to be corrected

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    • #3
      should be ok for spinach as i grew loads last year in gravel trays ( i thought they were big seed trays..lol) and i had some cabbages in them aswell they din't get very big but i used them as a pick and pick again

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      • #4
        Definitely not deep enough for potatoes! You need a tall container for those, so you can earth them up as they grow (start with the container only about a third full, I think, depending on size).

        I would have thought garlic would be OK in that depth, as I grow mine in 6" high raised beds on top of quite hard soil. Chard roots don't go deep either - also grows very successfully in my raised bed, and easy to pull up when spent.

        I would also think that anything that can be grown in a growbag - tomatoes, peppers, cucumber - should work too. In fact of all that lot, only the potatoes are real no-no - everything else is probably worth a try!

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        • #5
          Tomatoes and cucumbers in that depth of soil, would need an awful lot of watering, particularly as wood dries out quite quickly... That's not as deep as the supermarket flower buckets is it? Tumbling type tomatoes might do ok, but the Millefleur are quite a vigorous cordon, I don't think they'd cope.

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          • #6
            how about a shot rooted carrot,or simply use for seed trays,would give a good root system to some things
            sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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            • #7
              The carrots you're planning to grow should be fine. I have grown a similar type in old veg crates last year which were about 6 inches depth and they were fine.
              AKA Angie

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