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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.
As always, thanks in advance.
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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 dahliasLast edited by rary; 30-01-2017, 07:06 PM.it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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Cheers rary, as I say, I'm new to growing in them so am making a list of what & how many can be grown.sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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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?Comment
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Good Idea.............now why dint I think o' that..........Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
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Carrots did well in them last year as did potatoes. One potato per bucket and about 12 carrots.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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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 .When you have a hammer in your hand everything around you starts looking like a nail.Comment
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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.Potty by name Potty by nature.
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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.Last edited by Lumpy; 31-01-2017, 04:42 PM.I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison
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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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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 holesAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Thank you, Sparrow. I had no idea what was meant.Comment
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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.Comment
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When in doubt..................http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ses_86211.htmlOriginally posted by sparrow100 View PostTook 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.Comment
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