I grow my parsnip seed on paper towel allow to swell and just sprout then tear off pieces and put into the growing spot.... Still use radish to fill the row between the parsnip seed..

You are right to be cautious, someone I know has been allowed to use a corner of a field as an allotment in exchange for vegetables. Unexpectedly, the owner has put their home on the market, just 3 years after letting the piece of land. So much time and expense has gone into feeding the ground and clearing it, greenhouses erected, water organized etc.and now the person concerned has to give it up.

Couldn't find the thread as it has long been double dug!

I have had my plot for 45 years and anno domini is catching up with me so I am considering giving it up next year. I grow a lot of soft fruit as well as veg and shall miss it badly. Although I have a very small veg plot at home I shall keep it to grow what one cannot buy such as Purple Cape cauli, etc. Regarding fruit has anyone experience of growing strawberries in growbags or sinilar, please?

I don't have experience myself but googled the question and got this answer to someone who had asked the same question. Anyway it might be of help to you so here it is.


i grew strawberries in a growbag last year. i think i had 6 in a bag: 3 "holes", 2 strawberry plants in each hole. Worked well, but you do have to keep on top of watering and so on.

the other way i planted them was in a large pot, an upended empty squash bottle (with holes pierced in the lid/plastic) in the middle (to fill with water as a slow-drip feeder) with the plants around the outside. That pot was then stood on a larger pot, and when runners came through, they were fed down to the soil in the larger pot. you do this each year, so you wind up with a tower of strawberries. In theory, anyway, i didn't get any strawberries off it last year because you cut the flowers off with that technique, force it to put its energies into the runners so you get lots of plants, but this year i should get a good harvest from them. I hope! its quite a good method if you're short on space.

The only other method i can think of is either hanging baskets (they do surprisingly well there, only you *really* need to keep on top of watering with those) or putting them in window boxes or boxes on a wall, again, thinking in terms of vertical gardening, if space is a problem.

HTH

Hi What is it you are wanting to know about growing strawberries in gro bags? I could ask this grower of table top strawberries http://topveg.com/2007/09/table-top-strawberries-grow-fast/