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I've just spent the afternoon planting out all my little seedlings into my raised beds and I've run outta space I've still got some PSB to get in the ground and some tomatillos. I'm thinking that my potatoes might be ready to start pulling in about 3-4 weeks as they're almost in flower now, so maybe the PSB could go there.

Pot up the psb to something larger, temporarily, so as not to check their growth. There is still time to sow more, if all else fails. I sowed in June last year and my PSB did what it was supposed to.

I ran out of room a few weeks ago, and yet every time I walk around the lottie I manage to find a small space here and there. Especially for flash crops like lettuce, radish etc. Just waiting like NG for the spuds to start cropping to get winter stuff in.

Ian

I garden in a tiny space and so grow "upwards" whenever possible. By way of example, last year we built some outdoor shelves out of attractive off-cuts of wood and bricks and so stacked a few things on top of each other, or slightly staggered, so really using the upward space! Sure you can only do that with things that don't grow too tall, and the shelves need to grab the sun properly, but it worked fine for salad leaves, radishes, beetroot and even tumbling tomatoes.

I also ended up growing tomatoes in baskets, along with herbs. Not sure about the PSB - I messed mine up a few years ago and haven't tried it since! Sure you'll be fine leaving them on hold as suggested until the potatoes are done though.

Thanks for the advice. This is my first year growing veggies, but already I'm planning on changing they way I've planted. For a start I think I've got far too much lettuce - I've got about 20 or so plants that are getting bigger ever day (time to offer some on freecycle maybe) - I'm sure just 5 or 6 would do us for the summer - they're the type that keeps growing through the summer, I think that next year I might try the potatoes in my flower borders, and I don't think I'll be growing so many courgettes and tomatoes - got 8 of each at the moment. As soon as I get my camera sorted out, I'll post a couple of piccies

ooohhh... piccies would be good. I've been growing for about four years and every year I think "gah! I know nothing" and promise that I'll do better next year. The one thing I've learned is that no matter how many tomatoes I plant, it's never quite enough. I LOVE those little fellas! I now give 80% of my limited space to what I love and cook with every day ie. tomatoes, salad leaves, broad beans and herbs; 10 % to riskier (in a back yard!) exciting things like melons and squash; and 10 % to experimentals. Actually that doesn't include fruit trees but they just hang around doing their own thing...

I have run out of space too!!!! I have loads of tomato plants in the greenhouse and no more room in my beds for them. I thought I would put some in pots and leave in the greenhouse (also courgettes, cues, peppers and aubergines) What size pots though?? I have lots of 20cm pots left over from a hedge last year but would these be big enough??
Tx

Hi I'm new to this site. I know the feeling I don't have an allotment just two greenhouses but no space is never big enough, you could fill whatever space you have tenfold more than likely eh? I have 108 lettuce seedlings to sort out at the weekend. It's forecast rain but at least I won't get wet in greenhouse. There's nothing like being inside a greenhouse when it's throwing it down absolute bliss. Happy growing moo x

I am desperately hoping that my PSB finishes cropping soon, and eating my way through mounds of cabbage, so that I can get space for direct sowings of peas and french beans, as well as the climbing french beans starting to get a bit large for the takeaway coffee cups at home. There will also be space in this bit for some sweetcorn (but going to sow that at home tonight into pots to get started) and the pumpkins and winter squashes that are already started in pots but not quite so urgent.

The autumn sown onions are going to start being pulled next week (on a "this week's use" quantity basis) so I will in-fill with some spinach and salads.

I still have a tray and a half of summer cabbage and brocolli but NO room to plant them. Unless I put some where the white sprouting brocolli is coming out (a small row that I could put maybe 6/7 of about 30 plants). And I have already offloaded a tray to my mother. MIL will be getting some when we go down (in about 3 weeks ).

I also offloaded a few courgettes, a summer squash and some tomatoes to my mother, and put loads in the home garden.

When the spuds come out, I have LOADS of leeks to replace them with.

I have nowhere yet for carrots or parsnips (not that the parsnips are appearing anyway) but might squeeze them in as stations between the onions.

There are worse problems to be afflicted with though, I reckon.

Sounds a bit small. I am using 12-litre buckets and others on here seem to use 10" or 12" pots i.e. more like 25-30cm.

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