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If you live in a cold climate, shrubs and perennials that you want to overwinter will need to be brought into a protected environment. The roots will be exposed to cold, freezing, and thawing over the winter if left in the bags outside. Leaving the bags outside over the winter will also shorten the life of the bags. Skip to main content.

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How to Regrow Vegetables From Gardening Methods: Containers, Vertical Gardening: Grow More Container Gardening with Vegetables. Starting Seeds Indoors: How and Vegetables for Small Kitchen They have reinforced handles to make transporting the bag easier. Measuring 10 inches deep with a inch diameter, these bags are washable and reusable, and since they provide good soil aeration, they resist damage from moisture and mold.

These 7-gallon grow bags have a window through which gardeners can monitor the progress of their root vegetables. These grow bags are sold in packs of three, and the nonwoven fabric allows soil aeration. These bags come in three colors: black, brown, and green. These bags are made of nonwoven fabric and measure almost 8 inches high and approximately 6 inches in diameter. The bags are made with nonwoven fabric so the soil can drain and aerate. Because the bags have handles and are made of sturdy material, they are relatively easy to move, even when filled with soil.

This pack of bags also comes with 12 plant tags for labeling the plants. The bags are washable and can be reused. The 7-gallon size is ideal for plants that need a lot of root space, such as melons, indeterminate tomatoes, squash, and even smaller fruit trees. Grow bags fill a void for many at-home growers of food in particular. When space is at a premium, these soft bags come out for the season and then fold and store away until needed again. Of course, with these features, grow bags can be a little floppy, so we looked at bags that should be sturdy enough to support the weight of soil and plant.

Portability can come into play for those who might need to move a plant in a grow bag. Most of the choices in this list include reinforced handles. So it seems size is irrelevant when looking for a growing bag, most are the same. A possible reason for this is that there are several accessories sold for growing bags and these require the bag to be roughly the standard size. The plastic used to hold the compost tend to be the same quality as well, certainly we have not heard of grow bags splitting open when they are in their final position.

Some manufacturers claim the plastic of their growing bags is better insulated compared to most but there is no data to prove that this makes any significant difference. The final variable for a growing bag is the compost it contains. It's impossible to quantify this accurately because the manufacturers do not specifically declare the nutrients held with the compost. Growing tests by the RHS and other independent organisations could find no detectable difference in the quality of plants grown between the major manufacturers of growing bags.

So it's probably safe to assume that if you stick to the major manufacturers the quality of peat based compost will be roughly the same. Which did conduct tests on peat-free growing bags and in this case they performed slightly less well compared to peat based growing bags. The best produced lots of large, healthy summer vegetables, while the worst made inadequate yields with pale leaves. Only logged-in Which?

If you're not yet a member, join Which? Large bag. The compost mix in this growing bag contains less peat than many bags on test this year — the rest is made up of wood fibre, green compost, manure and seaweed. It certainly gave the heaviest harvest, with almost 12kg of cucumbers per bag. Plus it produced more good-quality cucumbers than any of the other bags on test.

Cheap but high peat. As the name suggests, the compost in this bag is a traditional high-peat mix, albeit with added wood fibre, manure, seaweed and green compost made from composted green-waste collections.

The two plants we grew in this bag were very healthy and gave us a heavy crop of straight cucumbers, but were slightly smaller than others. Organic, but not peat-free. We grew two and found the bags were plenty large enough to cope, giving us lots of excellent, supermarket-quality cucumbers. Not found the right product for you?