Yates Premium Potting Mix
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Plants are grown in containers for many reasons. The increasing number of people who live in flats or home units must, by necessity, do their gardening on windowsills or balconies. Here is your guide to growing vegetables in containers. Ensure you use good quality potting mix, like Yates Premium Potting Mix and feed well with Yates Thrive Fish Blood & Bone Plant Food Concentrate to help boost growth and maintain healthy plants.
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VEGETABLES |
MOST SUITABLE VARIETIES |
RECOMMENDED MIN, DEPTH OF CONTAINER |
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Cabbage |
Sugarloaf |
25 cm |
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Capsicum |
All |
40 cm |
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Carrot |
Baby |
25 cm |
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Chantenay |
25 cm |
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Chilli |
Burke’s Backyard Thai |
25 cm |
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Cress |
Curled Cress |
10 cm |
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Cucumber |
Lebanese |
40 cm |
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Eggplant |
All |
40 cm |
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Herbs |
Many types |
20 cm |
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Lettuce |
Cos |
25 cm |
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Mignonette |
25 cm |
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Buttercrunch |
25 cm |
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Onion |
Spring or Straight Leaf |
20 cm |
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Pumpkin |
Golden Nugget |
30 cm |
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Radish |
All |
20 cm |
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Rocket |
All |
30 cm |
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Silver beet |
Fordhook Giant |
25 cm |
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Compact |
25 cm |
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Tomato |
Small Fry |
30 cm |
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Tiny Tim |
30 cm |
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Roma |
30 cm |
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Zucchini |
Blackjack |
40 cm |
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Greyzini |
40 cm |
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Lebanese |
40 cm |
Yates Thrive Natural Fish & Seaweed+ Plant Food Concentrate
A complete plant food enriched with natural fish, seaweed, humates, molasses and more - boosted with NPK to improve plant and soil vitality.
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