List of Crops for Containers

List of vegetables, fruit and herbs suitable for growing in Pots, Containers, Hanging Baskets and Growbags

Types of Containers

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Many fruit, herbs and vegetables, including trees, can be grown in pots or containers, provided the pots are the right size and a little thought is given to the variety of crop chosen.

Below is a list of crops which are most suitable for crowing in containers.

Full instructions for growing specific vegetables in containers are given on the individual crop growing pages on this site. Items in red are best grown singly in larger pots ( +30-60cm/1-2 ft in diameter and depth).

Key: SP = small pots HB = Hanging Baskets

List of vegetables which can be grown in pots

Aubergines Bean - Climbing Bean - Dwarf (SP, HB) Bean - French Bean - Runner Beet (leaf) Beetroot Bell Peppers Broccoli Cabbage Calabrese Capsicum (peppers) Carrots Cauliflower	Chicory Chillies Courgette Cucumbers Eggplant Endive Garlic Kale Kohl Rabi Land Cress (SP, HB) Leaf Beet Lettuce (loose leaf SP, HB) Mange Tout Marrow and Squash	Pak Choy Peas Peppers (Sweet) Potatoes Radish Radicchio Seakale Spinach Spring Onions Sweet Peppers Swiss chard Tomatoes (dwarf SP, HB) Turnips Zucchini

List of fruit which can be grown in pots

Full instructions for growing specific fruit in containers are given on the individual crop pages on this site. Most are best grown in very large pots +60cm/2ft in diameter and depth and all top fruit trees should be dwarf varieties.

Fruit Trees & Vines (Top Fruit)		Fruit Bushes & Plants (Soft Fruit)
Apricot Apple Cherry Damson Fig Greengage Kiwi Nectarine Peach Pear Plum		Blackberry Blackcurrant Blueberry Boysenberry Cranberry Gooseberry Loganberry Raspberry Redcurrant Rhubarb Strawberry (SP, HB) Tayberry Whitecurrant

List of Herbs which can be grown in pots

Most herbs are suitable for growing in containers - many in small pots and hanging baskets. See individual growing pages for details.

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