Pots

[fluffytowel]

Hi everyone!

Very new and inexperienced gardener here! My 5 year old is desperate to grow fruit and vegetables...the only issue is my garden is slabs and stones so would need to be in pots....

Can anyone recommend any fruit/ veg that will grow well in pots?! Also I'm assuming I'm too late for anything this year but would anything grow even if it was indoors? He's always looking at seeds/ plants in the garden centre and really want to encourage this!

Thanks in advance for any help!
😊 xx

It is not too late for nasturtium. They are a great plant for kids as the seeds are big so easy to handle. Use the leaves in salad, they have a slightly peppery taste.

They don’t need nutrients so I would just buy a bag of compost from £1 shop or the like. Not the branded varieties. With a child’s watering can she water them as often as she likes. The prefer to be dry, but this time of year it won’t matter and the watering is the fun part.

You could also plant Cinderella Coaches. These are what my children call Nigella. They will sprout in about 4 weeks and last until Christmas.
You can eat the seeds.

For vegetables then I would suggest herbs. Easy to find small plants in garden centres and they love being in pots.

Pansies are edible and may be available I. Garden centres and market stalls.

Strawberries and tomatoes too (could you get a mini greenhouse? The tomatoes would love that)

Beans, peas and tomatoes? You could still buy small plants in a garden centre for this year then start from scratch next year.

Lettuce/ endive/ rocket are easy to grow and you can cut the leaves you want and they’ll grow more.
We plant them in plastic troughs and take the whole trough with us to our H/house.