Growing Michela Alba in a pot or container, is it possible?
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Is it possible to grow watermelons in a container?
Comments (21)Yep that's one thing I've found with gardening- there's ALWAYS room for a just a couple more plants! That sounds like a good idea! It may turn out great, leading the vines around the bucket paths that I don't actually walk in and are just there for space between the other plants... hmmm. Then I could worry about figuring out where to lead it as it gets longer. They would be on a wood deck but the spaces between boards are pretty wide- I think I could still use staples since the ground is 3" below the wood. I'm sure there has to be a way to make it work! And if it doesn't really work, well I'll try something different next time. Thanks again. And good luck with them jsvand5. I looked up the varieties you picked and they look tasty. And seeds are okay- makes you eat it slower and the enjoyment last! And you can actually roast watermelon seeds. If you really wanted to anyways. Not that anyone actually does it. Do they? Hmmm. Well, take care....See MoreGrowing grapes in a pot - is it possible or a ridiculous fancy?
Comments (8)Thanks for that link! One of the things I am a little big confused about is WHAT to prune. The video says you always want to leave 18-24 inches of last year's growth... Does that mean that I will indeed have a grapevine that's constantly expanding, rather than one that I can prune back to keep a certain size? Grapes fruit on 1 year old wood, so logically I would need to keep some of last year's wood if I wanted it to fruit. Then, the next year, do I cut off that wood and just keep the new stuff that grew? Would the new year's growth come from the "Trunk" area or continue growing from the last year's wood? I guess I just have no idea what to prune and what to leave, and how to apply that to a container. I'm totally baffled about what to prune after I would plant my grapes and they end their season, and then what to prune the next year, and so forth. I attached a picture to this post. This is kind of what I was thinking in my head - you train the canes into that T shape, and then they grow all the new growth and fruit and stuff like it looks in the first pic. then you cut it all off early in the year so it looks like the bare T in the second picture. Rinse and repeat. So the canes would stay in that T shape (or in my case around a tomato cage) and each year those canes would send out new growth and fruit I could cut off later to keep the size about the same. However, I am not so sure I have that correct at all. Here is a link that might be useful:...See MorePossible to grow podocarpus 10' high in container?
Comments (8)If you want a tree that will grow to 10' within a year or two, you'll have to buy trees that are 6-8' tall to begin with. If it's a wind-sheltered area, you might consider a colannade of 4 to 5 tall pots with vertical plants. 'Sky Rocket' Juniper and 'Sky Pencil' Chinese holly are commonly used for this. Both are reasonably drought-tolerant which is an important consideration for containers. Bamboo is also a possibility, but golden bamboo (Phyllostachys aurea) wouldn't be in my top 100 choices when it comes to species selection (it isn't all that attractive and will eventually break its container). Chusquea coronalis and Chusquea circinnata are both attractive bamboos with a graceful habit and fine-textured foliage that will give good drapery all the way down to the tops of the pots. Otatea glauca 'Mayan Silver' is a bit more upright, but it might be good as well, and is probably even more drought tolerant. With any bamboo, I would pour a single concrete trough in a plywood form to the desired width in order to make the container. Bamboos are good at catching the wind, and the Santa Ana's might topple and break your beautiful earthenware pots if the setup is naturally top-heavy and the container's footprint is too small. For quick effect, nothing can match constructed hardscape. How about a living wall planted with succulents and drought-tolerant bromeliads?...See MoreIs it possible to grow watermelons in pots?
Comments (4)Well, if the pot is large enough, it's possible to grow anything in a pot. A couple of years ago on the 'Victory Garden' tv show, they showed a public building in S. California which was growing trees about 40 feet tall in containers about the size of a large luxury SUV. I think that you could probably do ok with watermelons in large containers, something whiskey barrel sized or larger, especially if you're consistent and careful with your watering and fertilizing. You could set up an automatic watering system with a timer and really pamper it if you wanted to, with a small fertilizer injection system as well. I do think, though, you'd be better off with small-fruited, more compact varieties in containers -- it's just my "gut instinct" that these would adapt better to container culture than a large-fruited variety. Dennis SE Michigan...See Morejimshy
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