Anyone growing strawberries, tomatoes or chillis?

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by Takhisis

Would love to grow lots of different berrys but I'm terrible with plants of any sort - I just manage to kill them all :/

Well all I've done is potted them and chucked them in the garden! They do the rest!

[Jonny69]

I have renamed my chilli plant "Big Frank"

[Jonny69]

Quick update...

The strawbs are coming along well, there were two big fat ripe ones waiting for me when I got home from work:



Nyom, nyom nyom...

The plants are coming along really well but I let them dry out last weekend and the leaves have looked a bit tatty since. It doesn't seem to have affected the fruit and the hot weather is really making some big strawbs. Can't wait for them to ripen, check these babies out:





I've also got some cherry tomatoes on the go in a hanging basket. Old Grandma69 recommended a strain called Tumbler and they really grow well, covered in yellow flowers at the moment so it's going to be a bumper crop, well worth the £1.30 or whatever it was for each of the two plants.



And here is my first tomato of the year, about as big as the end of my finger:

[Roberta]

I've just bought chillies, strawberries, tomatoes, peppers and herbs and will be planting them later - providing I don't keep drinking this lovely red wine.

[Will]

I've seen them - they looked good! mmmmmmmm

[Jonny69]

Nyom nyom nyom, still warm from the sun

[Von Smallhausen]

Did you use a home-made genetic modification laser to grow them Jonny ?

[lostkat]

Oh fantastic, glad they're doing well Jonny. I might get some strawberry plants next year.

Mum gave me 3 cherry tomato plants and a courgette the other week that she couldn't fit in her vegetable patch. I've been watering them lots and they seem to be doing well. The courgette has quite a few buds on it, so I'm hopeful for a good crop

[Tak]

Until I get around to hiring a pneumatic drill and a skip and getting you lot around to demolish my garden I have the choices of doing nowt (as normal) or attempting things in pots. I will probably start with a herb pot but then may move on to berries so I'll probably be using this thread as a guide

[lostkat]

The best thing to remember with pots, is give them drainage (crocks in the bottom) and make sure you water them lots because they can dry out quick. Do both of those, and you should be fine My herb trough needs very little looking after. I just cut the herbs and water it. Might as well give it a bash I kill plants too, but they're almost always house plants. The ones in my garden seem a lot happier.