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My portable GH garden - Veggie - 03-08-2025
This year I've been growing all the GH tomatoes/cucumbers in 30litre pots - instead of in open-bottomed pots resting on a big bed of old compost. This has had lots of advantages - mainly the ability to move the plants around, both within the GH (If they need more room) and outdoors if they should have a problem or are finished - creating room for a replacement pot.
The pots are easy to lift as they have handles.
When the plants have finished cropping, I move them out of the GH, I pull them up and empty the soil into a big trug. Remove any roots, add some chicken manure pellets, line the bottom of the pot with wool insulation, and refill the pot with the used compost. These pots are being replanted with all sorts of veggies - potatoes, beans, cucumber, chard, lettuce, carrots, beetroot etc. They stay outside on the patio or near a waterbutt, and can be moved back into the GH when there's a vacancy. I reckon I'll be able to grow something in each pot about 3 times a year.
Root crops , like carrots, are doing much better in the pots (obviously) than in the ground with all the roots and stones there are here. I'm going to start a sowing rotation of carrots - probably a pot every 3 weeks, maybe one for beetroot too.
I'll be able to empty the GH completely in the winter to give it a good clean out which I've been unable to do for years.
I already grow salad leaves and shallow rooters in supermarket veg crates on the GH bench and outdoors but the full size crates are a bit unwieldy to move when full so I'm going to use the smaller mushroom/spring onion crates, moving these in and out of the GH as appropriate.
The more I can grow close to the house the better as it takes the pressure off trying to water things at the end of the garden.