I love your channel, and love it even more when you cover container grown vegetables. I know this is more an exception for Homeacres. But really useful for those of us urban dwellers who can only grow in containers. Thanks!
Thanks for this one Charles! We use your methods but in raised beds and pots because our dogs aren't friendly to growing on the ground. It's worked great for us and videos like this will encourage others to try it...
❤I grow many herbs in containers just so I can have them closer to my kitchen door. This year a small gourd plant popped up in the barn compost pile so we let it go wild until yesterday. Over 500 gourds collected and more still out there! They’re not the eating kind (too small), but our pet pig and chickens will have a lovey treat this winter! 😊
I have had good experiences with 1/3 potting soil, 1/3 leaf mold and 1/3 green compost! I use finely chopped autumn leaves as mulch! And indeed you don't have to fertilize! Thanks for your vlog, it is appreciated!
I didn't realize tomatoes ripen better at the end of the season if you let them go dry. I'll have to stop watering mine since we will be getting frost soon. I always learn something from you Charles. Thanks!
Thanks for the tip about getting cultivars of squash specifically for containers. We over-winter tabasco peppers. We have one coming up on its third year.
This is my first year at home and am glad to be around to pay attention to my container garden. I will over winter my six bell pepper plants: wash plant, re-pot into new soil & pots. Swiss chard, leeks, carrots, marigolds will remain outside and hopefully will be alive over the winter. I’ll try to protect w/ mulch & cover and water as needed. Thanks for this, so many ppl don’t grow b/c they think they can’t. I only got 4 cukes (overwatered), but loads of tomatoes, peppers, leeks, chard, radishes, beans w/ western exposure and used chicken manure, mushroom manure, sea soil in spring.
I grow patio eggplant in a pot. Second year in a row. Very happy with the results. Walls are a great heat sink and reflector for your tomatoes. Dropping a 💗for Minty!
I used to get ALOT of aphids, especially on my wombok cabbage, 6 weeks before harvest & on my cucumbers too. So I started growing alot of alyssum around these prone aphid loving plants & you know what? Haven't had a single aphid since doing this, french marigold I grow with the alyssum too. Works a treat! I swear by it.
I grew almost everything in root pouches this year, which I placed in a 5ftx5ft round fabric 'raised bed'. I filled the 5'x5' round halfway with compost then "planted" the root pouches into the compost. It was all placed on top of grass in a relatively open area that is on the path of my rain run off. I had to water a few times, because July was unusually hot and dry here, but it worked GREAT! It is now Oct 6 and my tomatoes are still producing fruit, the flowers are still blooming and even the cucumber vine is still blooming. The close proximity of the 'pot' and the canopy of the tomato plants has kept that area warm! It worked so well for me that I'll be expanding next year!
There are a few bush squash / pumpkin which grow like a courgette for example Amazonka, Bush Delicata & Gold Nugget. They are all suitable for container production or also for smaller gardens in ground. Usually no more than 1M wide.
@@chrisgartenn would jack be little work in a pot that had trellis support? It's not a common variety here in New Zealand but I got hold of some seeds from a farm.
I appreciate all your videos. This one in particular was very enjoyable and informative. I do some containers with homemade compost and they do so -so. Next year I'll definitely mix mine with another compost. Those green tomatoes are fantastic fermented now and eaten New Year's Day. That's also when I start eating my fermented Garlic flowers. Take care Charles
I grow all of my chilies in pots with saucers, but I have drilled holes in the sides of the saucers that can be plugged with corks in summer and removed in winter for proper drainage so the roots won't rot. Seems to work! 💚
I started overwintering my chilis indoors a few weeks back. This year I cut the roots way back and gave them a through wash with water and a neem oil/garden soap mix. Then I potted them up with my own sterile compost, where I just took old used compost from outside and poured boiling water over. I made sure it was very soggy/water logged then after 30mins I used cheese cloth to get the compost back to a solid/none water logged form. Then I just sterlized some pots and potted up into smaller pots for the winter (with some blood fish and bone mixed in). plants are bursting with life lots of green leaves despite taking them all off (I know you don't typically want leaf growth but it worked last year).So far no aphids or any bugs unlike last year, guess we will see overtime though. just make sure to bleach your cheese cloth after use and you can use in the garden again next year XD
How many years can you overwinter chilli's? I did this last year with great success but wondering whether it would work another year for the same plant?
@@paullittle5200 I can't really say from experience as I'm still learning. But last year I overwintered a few jalepeno plants and I have cut it back again this year. despite it only being a few weeks the plant is fighting back and little green buds are forming again (I don't have a cold place to store it), so I reckon it'll atleast be fine for next year :) google says 1.5-15 years depending on the variety, not sure how true that is tho.
Great video, I love this trial as I can compare with mine. I grow tomatoes in containers in black pots (34L) and in sleepers' beds that sit on my patio (I have no access to bare soil, unfortunately). This is my third year and I still have some last beef stake tomatoes on the healthy vines, this is going to be their last week because it is getting cold, they are changing colour though. The selection of variety is key, max 80 days to ripen after planting out. I live in Northern Ireland, where I get more rain and less warmth. Tomatoes usually last until mid-October, with previous year being "blighty" exception. NO-dig can also be practised in containers successfully, this being the third year. Overwintering peppers really does help too, I managed to get two harvest on my chillies I kept inside, but this also depends on the variety. Some chillies need long season, but I can get one late harvest in the first year and bigger early into the following year. Definitely would recommend this to anyone. I hope you will do a similar trial next year to compare against this unusual cold, sunless season. I only grow in containers, but all the trials you do I find as fascinating and sometimes eye-opening.
me encanta ver como mintie roba camara se antoja acariciarla.. seria genial ver un video de recolección de semillas míster charly.. probablemente las compras pero es tan satisfactorio seleccionar las semillas de tomate o guisantes. cada vez que veo mi pequeño huerto pienso en ti y en mintie animandome a crear nuevos plantines. Gracias por motivarme..
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Hi I put all weeds and soil in the chicken run they happily turn it over for me looking for bugs ready in 2 days are you thinking of getting chickens good for weeding and great compost as always my friend happy gardening Richardx
Thanks Richard, and no thanks! There are many foxes here and it would be time-consuming to work that out to exclude them, plus I do not want the extra jobs
Every year, in addition to the garden and a small greenhouse, I plant about 30 buckets, mainly tomatoes and chillies. And every year the chillies are at least once bigger and lusher than the ones in the garden. The same with tomatoes, only the ones in the greenhouse are bigger and more abundant.
I've done a lot of experimentation over the years with container growing and this is actually one of the worst methods. It will generally yield unsatisfactory results. The problem is that you're trying to grow plants in the decaying matter of other dead plants (not actually how nature works). The compost is still decomposing and consuming oxygen in the process, which is competing with the plants roots for oxygen and making nutrients unavailable, etc. The plants will thrive much better if you exclude the rapidly decaying matter from the root zone. I've found that a mix of river sand, perlite and peat does pretty well for a while until the peat starts to break down over time. The compost is added as a top dressing similar to how Charles does his no dig beds. Just a little tip for people who have chlorotic looking plants, "over-watering" issues, etc. when practicing container growing. It's mostly due to the now pervasive misconception of what constitutes a good potting soil or medium for container growing. Sorry to be critical, Charles. I'm generally a fan but this video is actually a disservice to people who want to really understand how to properly garden in containers.
Interesting, thanks. I thought the results here are pretty good, considering no feeds given and very little extra care. The compost in these pots is not rapidly decomposing because it's already 9 to 12 months old. And the plants are not chlorotic-looking. For sure there are other ways to do it!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Charles, thank you for the response. I hope my comment wasn't taken to be overly critical as it wasn't my intention. It was more intended to be food for thought and perhaps encourage discussion and experimentation. Agreed your results are pretty good. Some plants are more sensitive to the problems that'll arise than others but you can definitely have some success growing short-lived annuals in compost. It's especially the longer lived perennials, nursery stock, ornamentals, etc where you will really run into problems growing this way. Think about the apple trees in your garden and how the roots are growing down into your clay soil and you feed the soil compost from the top but you don't dig it in. That's sort of the concept I'm describing even with container plants, the bulk of the organic material is better left at the top. That being said, thank you for sharing your no dig concepts with the world. You really are a pioneer and I've learned so much from your content. Cheers!
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Yep, I've been experimenting with coir and vermiculite this year and I'm not impressed. It doesn't seem to work well in modules, but the succulents seem to like it.
my peppers and chillies are huge this year i rea;ly want to save mine too so i will be trying but i will have to reduce the pot size as they are in 30 litre pots haha i dont have a spare room :D considering wrapping in fleece and leaving in back of green house that i will be using all year round so we shall see if i can keep them alive ,, do you know if auberines can over winter ? as mine are 6 foot high in the green house ?
Thank you! Someone else who has observed this😂 it's like watching children's TV, repeating the same information year after year... " let's hurt our backs and add some horticultural grit"
Thanks John. Maybe I need to do a survey because I have a feeling that people who like it are not commenting. Is it the music itself or just having music at all?
