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I saw today that ASDA has 40 liter rubber buckets on sale. Is that large enough to grow horseradish in?
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Hill of Beans updated April 18th -
According to this, a 5 gallon tub is the smallest you can get away with ( 5gals=40l)
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Um. Here comes the Job's comforter again. The US gallon (and that site is an American university site Nicos) is smaller than the UK gallon. UK Gallons to Gallons conversion calculator so you could actually get away with a slightly smaller one.
Just being pedantic of course in the hope that we all get into a raging (and pointless) discussion on US/UK gallons and wet/dry gallons.
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Gan Heather, I grow mine in a cleaned out 20l parafin container, and have had no problems. I take it out every year and cut most of it off to make sauce, then replant with fresh soil.Bob Leponge
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Thanks for all the advice. If I plant it this Spring, when would I be able to harvest some of it?Hill of Beans updated April 18thComment
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Are you growing from seed or from a cutting?
If its a cutting, which is what I did, I planted it in Feb I think, let it grow all year, waited till the foliage died back and then emptied it all out. The first year the lump wasnt very big but I cut half of it, then put the rest back in fresh soil and left in the unheated greenhouse all over the winter, putting back out in the spring where it grew fantastically well the second and subsequent years.
For seed, I have no idea, sorry.Bob Leponge
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It's not from seed, but one of those packages from Wilkos - a cutting, I suppose. Thanks for all your help - I'll do as you suggest.Hill of Beans updated April 18thComment
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Thing to remember with horseradish is that its proper tough, and actually a nightmare if it gets loose in the garden, hence the tubs as you rightly said.
Its very difficult to kill, so as long as its planted in soil it will almost definitely grow.Bob Leponge
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Thanks for this have just got the same horseradish from wilkos! Was wondering where I was gonna put as it so tough and spreading! The list of containers is just what I need too! Can't find garlic on there tho? Have some usual and elephant from wilkos again and want to do some in pots so the kids can keep an eye on it. Do you think it would be the same as onions?
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My garlic goes straight into the ground in December and comes out around June normally. I sometimes start it in pots, depending on the weather, but always transplant.
I'm pretty sure though that it would be the same as growing onions in a pot (which I've never done either) so if you normally do your onions in pots, then the garlic should be pretty similar I would have thought.Bob Leponge
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thanks for that, never done it before so the best way is to try! Anyone any experience of garlic growing in pots? We have some at the lotty, but kids want to do it, something to do with magic of the splitting bulb! Yehay, think they have the growing bug!!!
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