How much space?

ab7167

I and OH have just bought a house with a very large back garden. By large, the approximate dimensions are 30' wide x 150' long. OH reckons this is not enough space to have room for the kids (x 2 currently, hoping for more :-)) and to grow enough vegetables to significantly reduce our food bill as opposed to just have a few nice fresh veg every now and again. It has obviously been cultivted before, as even I can recognise the potato plants currently scattered randomly around. And is it too late to start this year? Should we be concentrating on preparing the ground and building raised beds for next year? Any general advice as I am new to this, but prepared to work hard to achieve good results!

angelavdavis

You have plenty of space in my opinion to separate a piece of for a vegetable garden!

I would recommend you dig over a part of your vegetable garden to be, rake it down to a tilth and then sow some seed of some fast growing salad crops such as mixed leaves, radishes or lettuce into it.

It won't need much feeding and will give you the impetus to prepare more beds come autumn (when the soil will hopefully be more dig-friendly.

You may find some ready cultivated plants such as the odd tomato plant in the shops at the moment, so could try to grow some of these too, but salad veg is happy not having too much food (you will need to watch for slugs and snails though).

It will also mean you can enjoy the summer with your family.

You can then plant onion setts and garlic to over-winter once you have sorted out your veg garden proper.