The joy of Grow bags

Cheap, cheap, cheap.

Being some what impecunious, (broke) anything that saves money and has more that one use is for me.
In the ideal world I'd be equipped with tiny sowing pots, special packs of seed compost to nurture my little darlings along but I'm not, so the humble grow bag is my sole source of growing medium and it seems to work for just about anything regardless of it staying in the bag or used for pots, and at £1.10 a bag, bargain.
 
This was my original plan to grow tall plants, tomatoes and runner beans up the side of the shed, I created a long troth and stuck the plants in, plastic netting nailed from the top of the shed would provide a climbing frame for the plants to cling to.

Snails loved it.
Operation clean up. drastic action was called for, after a bit of tiding up with a strimmer (I love that thing) I removed the plants, buried the empty snail shells, he he, slug pellets strike again.
Maybe it was pure luck or fate but the bags fitted the space exactly.

I do have to admit that these grow bags aren't the most attractive of things and only have enough nutrients inside to support life for one season but next year I shall just empty them in to the troth and mix in what ever is required, the garden centres shelves seem to be packed with the 'right stuff for your garden'.
That's it, done. Plants in place and not to upset at being moved about to much.

The plastic netting is the ideal climbing frame for the runner beans but not s sure for the tomatoes, time will tell. Slug pellets sprinkled around the edges work well.
 

 

  
Back to Main Page - Click picture above
Copyright © Jimmy 2007 : Email here