veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

lynzpower

We tried a few months ago to put through proposals for a roof terrace, but our alcoholic nightmare neighbour from hell said no to it and the council said no too, but main reasons were that if we did everyone on the street would want to do it!

Appeal this.

There are loads of sites on the internet regarding the promotion in respect of food miles etc of GYO.

If you are in london there is http://www.projectdirt.com/ and http://www.projectdirt.com/page/capital-growth

both of which seem to offer good advice.

Good luck though keep us posted!

mum26

Hi everyone, we sowed some seeds in little propogators and they are on the kitchen windowsill, been about a week and cucumbers, cauliflowers and broccoli are peeking through Basil (these ones are for a pot inside) just starting to show too. Wheen these seedlings get a bit bigger and need to be potted on will they then be ok to go out into the mini greenhouse (have a fleece cover for the greenhouse) so I have the windowsills back for the next lot of seeds?

Have pink fir apples chitting on the windowsill but no change to them at all so far?

enrich100

Here are a few links which may be useful to new vegetable gardeners (and maybe the not so new gardeners too)

Grow your Own Forum

A very good forum for veg growers both new and old


Gardening Growing Cards

From this link you can download Gardening Growing Cards, very useful if you are new to gardening

Vegetable Growing Advice

This link gives you information on most crops it also can be personalised to your postcode giving you the aproximate first and last frosts dates of the year where you live

Know your Soil

This is good guide on identifying your soil type and even identifys what plants are suitable for the different types of earth

Thining Out And Replanting Seedlings

This include advice on thining Out seeds from modules video guide complete with notes

Companion planting

This link is a good guide to what plants complement each other and which plant combinations should be avoided

Crop Rotation

This Link give you information about crop rotation

Seed Viability

This link shows you how long seeds stay viable

Pot Sizes

This Link lets you know how much soil fits in different pots sizes this is especally useful if you are using containers to grow vegetables

BBC Gardening
This link is to the BBC gardening page, this has good advice on plants, pests and diseases

BBC Gardening Guides
Useful guides including gardening with children and advice from profesional gardeners

BBC Dig in
BBC's website to support their Dig In campaign

Growing Vegetables, Herbs and Annual Flowers in Containers

Container Vegetable Gardening

These links are a couple of useful container gardening guides giving advice on things such as the specific size containers needed for different crops

Square foot gardening

A useful guide to square foot gardening including a guide on the numbers of vegetables to plant per sq ft

Allotment Gardening

Growing Vegetables on an Allotment a very good guide from an allotment grower from Leeds

Gardening weather Forcast

This forecast is updated every Sunday afternoon and highlights points of interest to gardeners for the next few days.

Freecycle

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

Once you have grown your veg you might want to know what to do with them

Vegbox-Recipes

A recipe guide for cooking all the vegetable you are growing

turbo5019

Whoo DH came home yesterday and he has done the green house today so I am going to get planting now. :j:j
I'm going to get the potatoes in to day and might do the carrots.
Just ordered some staging to go in the green house cant wait for them to arrive.

janiebaby29

misskool wrote: »

it's not too late at all. March is a great time to start and depending on what you want to grow, some things won't even be ready for planting out until mid-end march.

what do you want to grow and where in the country are you? That's very important as frost dates vary a lot depending on the part of country you're in.

I live in essex . Harlow to be exact ,
just things like potatoes in containers , toms , squash , courgette , strawberries , cucs , lol what do you recommend !!!!

skaps

Hi i am a gardening newbie who got seeds for xmas and needs some help.
I have

• sweetcorn
• lettuce
• strawberry
• beetroot
• rocket
• cress
• spinach
• cabbage
• sweet pepper
• swede
• spring onion
• pea
• chilli pepper
• carrot

Can i plant any of these now and can i do it in pots or is outdoors best? Can i start some off in pots and then move them to the garden?

skaps

Have just planted my sweet pepper, lettuce and spring onion for now in pots. The garden needs to be sorted out and its too cold and windy today to do it.

Megansmum

Hi Skaps, welcome

As mentioned in another post, it depends where in the country you are as to whether to start sowing indoors/outdoors now. Whereabouts are you?

lynzpower

skaps wrote: »

Hi i am a gardening newbie who got seeds for xmas and needs some help.
I have

• sweetcorn ( not sure)
• lettuce ( are they leaves? ie rocket? they can def be started inside, not sure about iceberg/ round type
• strawberry
• beetroot ( not yet in containers)
• rocket ( yes inside
• cress yes inside
• spinach what sort of spinach is it?
• cabbage
• sweet pepper yes inside or in propogator, nows the time for these
• swede
• spring onion yes in trays- I have mine in unheated greenhouse
• pea yes ive started mine in pots in unheated greenhouse
• chilli pepper i have mine in the propogator
• carrot in the ground or in pots?

Can i plant any of these now and can i do it in pots or is outdoors best? Can i start some off in pots and then move them to the garden?

See my comments- no expert but thats what Im doing

lynzpower

enrich100 wrote: »

Here are a few links which may be useful to new vegetable gardeners (and maybe the not so new gardeners too)

Grow your Own Forum

A very good forum for veg growers both new and old


Gardening Growing Cards

From this link you can download Gardening Growing Cards, very useful if you are new to gardening

Vegetable Growing Advice

This link gives you information on most crops it also can be personalised to your postcode giving you the aproximate first and last frosts dates of the year where you live

Know your Soil

This is good guide on identifying your soil type and even identifys what plants are suitable for the different types of earth

Thining Out And Replanting Seedlings

This include advice on thining Out seeds from modules video guide complete with notes

Companion planting

This link is a good guide to what plants complement each other and which plant combinations should be avoided

Crop Rotation

This Link give you information about crop rotation

Seed Viability

This link shows you how long seeds stay viable

Pot Sizes

This Link lets you know how much soil fits in different pots sizes this is especally useful if you are using containers to grow vegetables

BBC Gardening
This link is to the BBC gardening page, this has good advice on plants, pests and diseases

BBC Gardening Guides
Useful guides including gardening with children and advice from profesional gardeners

BBC Dig in
BBC's website to support their Dig In campaign

Growing Vegetables, Herbs and Annual Flowers in Containers

Container Vegetable Gardening

These links are a couple of useful container gardening guides giving advice on things such as the specific size containers needed for different crops

Square foot gardening

A useful guide to square foot gardening including a guide on the numbers of vegetables to plant per sq ft

Allotment Gardening

Growing Vegetables on an Allotment a very good guide from an allotment grower from Leeds

Gardening weather Forcast

This forecast is updated every Sunday afternoon and highlights points of interest to gardeners for the next few days.

Freecycle

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

Once you have grown your veg you might want to know what to do with them

Vegbox-Recipes

A recipe guide for cooking all the vegetable you are growing

If its OK with you Id like to copy this post and put it in the opening post for everyone to refer back to if thats OK?

Its brilliant, thanks for taking the time :A