Are there any veg/fruit that are easy to grow in pots?

[SmurfPants]

I'd like to try growing some food but I've only got pots, no beds. Is it possible?

Having had a little read around I'm thinking that stuff we'd actually eat would be:

radishes
peas
lettuce of some sort
shallots
wild garlic maybe?

I'm a bit overwhelmed by the number of different varieties. Can anyone advise on some that I can sow or plant now?

Runner and French beans, courgettes, beetroot, and tomatoes all do well in pots.
Lettuce seems to do well in troughs.

I grow lettuce in shallow troughs. Radishes, carrots and onions in deeper troughs (45cm) and courgettes in pots. Tomatoes and strawberries in hanging baskets and wall baskets.

If your starting now buy some as established plants. You've still plenty of time to sow lettuces from seed though, start them off in a propogator on a windowsill or one of those little tent like green houses. It's very satisfying (and much easier than you think!)

Growing what you like to eat is a really good start!

I grew all sorts in pots before I got an allotment.

Use the biggest containers you can as watering is the most difficult bit to get right.

Tomatoes grow well in hanging baskets, tumbling Tom is good, one plant in a big basket.

Strawberries are v good in containers and salad is easy, just buy a mixed salad leaf vollection . Rocket is v easy.

Herbs are great as they are expensive, I have a bay grown from a counting from a friend, Rodemary, chives and oregano. I sow parsley every year, which grows surprisingly big, and basil and coriander.

Mint is easy but needs to be in a big pot.

Raspberries and blueberries worked well too.

If you go on a seed site there's lots of advice about container suitable varieties.

I have a huge vegetable garden and still grow my carrots in deep pots as they do better in them than in my soil.
In our old house we only had pots and we did potatoes, strawberries, carrots, salad leaves, most herbs, onions

I've grown peas (sugar snap ones) in pots before. Didn't do too badly.

I grew all my tomatoes in pots by choice last year.

Agree about growing herbs and salad leaves.

Great thank you.

I've ordered some pea, lettuce, beetroot and radish seeds. I think I'll go and get some strawberry plants too as DD would enjoy that. If we can keep them from the slugs.