Always thought these pots would look particularly good planted with something tall and straight, a Bay Tree or Standard Rose for example.

Well I still really think this is a good idea - just have not got around to it yet !

What I have done though is plant up all sorts of veggies an the patio.

Potatoes ( have you tried ‘Pink Fir Apple’ potatoes, they’re delicious !), carrots, parsnips - in fact they will take anything that needs a deep root.

I use these pots just outside the kitchen door, they do not take up much space, and I can have fresh vegetables right on the doorstep.

I’m planting up my new raised bed here, but you can see some pots I have planted up in the background.

Intend to cover our scruffy ( really scruffy !) patio with all sorts of vegetables in these pots, it will be like having a veggie ‘pick and mix’ available every time I’m cooking.

It’s not just the deep rooted vegetables that I’ll use these pots for either.

You can contain some handy, but ready to run amok herbs - all those different sorts of lovely Mints for example - peas, beans, beetroot you name it.

I have many cunning plans !

( Some of which, I have to admit came from “Growing Stuff” but they are all mine, mine I tell you, now !)

Always willing to learn though, so if you can tell me of uses you have put these large pots too, would love to know.

Although they may get a bit “hairy” in old age, will never break or crack and can be easily moved around and, here’s a really good bit.

Totally sustainable, grown not ‘manufactured’ they will eventually go back to the soil which made them.

But you will get a good couple of years or more out of them first.

Unless I grow my own from seed, I get all my veg plants from our local organic market gardeners, Sheila and David Jenkins.

They were the original organic growers in Herefordshire, and are now taking it a bit easy after 27 years of hand weeding 8 acres !

Anyway they are kind enough to grow Vegetable Plants for us in our coir trays.