can anyone help me with brocolli and cucumber plants please!

[cheesesarnie]

im a complete beginner.i kill plants....but i brought a broccoli plant,a tomoato plant and a cucumber plant on sunday and want to really try!

can i grow them in pots or similar rather than planting in ground?its just that our house is rented and im not sure if veg patch would be landladys idea of fun!

also what else do i need to know????

Yes they will all grow in pots, I would get quite big ones or a grow bag. Just put them somewhere with plenty of sun.

I'm sure you could grow them all in plants, but I want to warn you about the broccoli you have to make sure it dosen't get cabbage root fly,
you can either treat it or get some plastic colar for round its base(read that in Jamie Oliver),
also watch out for the cabbage butterfly caterpillars, I speak from experience of my cauliflower getting raided by both last year!

WATER is the answer! They will be fine in big pots but you must water them every day, pref in the evening when it's cooler.

grow them in plants of course I mean't pots!

ooh i didnt expect such quick responses.thankyou!

where do i buy plastic colar?what is plastic colar???or what do i treat with.i dont 'do' caterpillars!

plum.i understood.

ive been watering about 7-8 pm.

very exciting.i'll go looking for pots tomorrow.

I'm not sure what the plastic collar is? just read about it, think its if you don't want to use pesticides it will stop the fly burrowing down to lay eggs,
Caterpillars [yuck], I thought I didn't 'do' them either until the littlle blighters were munching away on my cauli's, iwasn't long pulling them off!

If you've only got one brocoli plant, just check the underside of the leaves every day, if a butterfly has layed eggs, there will be a group of tiny yellow/orange things sticking there, just squash them.

thanks.

seriously i dont 'do' caterpillars!i had weird allergy to some thing they squirt to get rid of birds and hate them

Cucumbers like it hot, hot hot!