New To MFB's

[Bigmallly]

Apart from the odd experiment, growing in MFB's is relatively new to me. So........what veg can be grown in them & how many would you plant.
As always, thanks in advance.

[rary]

At the moment I have a couple of potatoes growing in one also four garlic cloves in an other, two covering rhubarb (with a brick on top of them) last year I used three for tomatoes,with satisfactory results, they are handy for growing lettuce, I also use some for growing dahlias

[Bigmallly]

Cheers rary, as I say, I'm new to growing in them so am making a list of what & how many can be grown.

[veggiechicken]

I use MFBs for tomatoes (with the bottom cut off - the MFB, not the toms) and for most things grown in the GH - as my GHs are on solid floors.
Currently, growing beets, carrots, turnip, mooli, mangetout, kohlrabi and some other stuff I can't remember. Can't help you with how many plants per bucket as I sow too many every time
Maybe use the spacings for SFG as a guide?

[Bigmallly]

Maybe use the spacings for SFG as a guide?

Good Idea.............now why dint I think o' that..........

[roitelet]

Carrots did well in them last year as did potatoes. One potato per bucket and about 12 carrots.

[jonny the plant pot]

I did 7 different varieties of carrots in them last year which all did well.
Ive currently got 170 piled up in my polytunnel for this year .

[Potstubsdustbins]

More or less anything is the simple answer.

I grow

Runner beans I per bucket,

Tomatoes, sweet peppers and cucs 1 plant per bucket

Potatoes I per bucket, used to do two per found very little deference in yield and I have lots of buckets.

Cauliflower and cabbage I per bucket.

When they split at the top I cut them down to make a 6" depth and in go my radish and spring onions. Radish are spaced on sowing so about 30, spring onions are sown in 3 inch pots 3 pots per bucket.

Used to grow carrots in them, make sure you thin out or like my friend you will need a screwdriver to prise the first ones out.

I find them great for bringing plants on for later transplanting, for instance I always have 6 curly kale ready to transplant when I harvest my main crop spuds from the dustbins, gives a real head start.

Again I use cut down ones to bring on strawberry runners, some to replant, others in the GH for early strawberry's the following year.

[Lumpy]

Dwarf broad beans (Robin Hood) - 2 per MFB.

Parsnip - 1 - per MFB. Very easy to get at when everything is frozen.

Cabbage (Greyhound) - 1 per MFB

Going to try Savoy this year (Samantha) as some grow quite small.

[sparrow100]

Took me ruddy ages to figure out what an MFB was! Some of us live outside the Morrisons zone... Mine are SFBs or WFBs. M&S flower buckets are better but impossible to come by.

[Two_Sheds]

Morrison's 10 litre black flower bucket?
They're a bit small for my toms, which I grow in half a compost sack

I mostly plant them around the lotty, as watering holes

[Snoop Puss]

Thank you, Sparrow. I had no idea what was meant.

[Cadalot]

I was really lucky as I asked for the square flower Buckets just after Mothers Day a few years ago and the guy at a large TESCO gave me shed loads as they were coming out of their ears, and I filled up the back of the car with them. I asked after valentines day last year for a few more and was told they needed them all for Mothers day and that I couldn't have any.

So best bet if you want them is on the evening of Mothers day when they are over stocked with the things.

[veggiechicken]

Took me ruddy ages to figure out what an MFB was! Some of us live outside the Morrisons zone... Mine are SFBs or WFBs. M&S flower buckets are better but impossible to come by.

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