vege plot

loopy-loo73

Hi,

I thought with it being half term next week i might try to plant something not got a veg plot as such just a wide (ish) flowerbed at the end of the garden. not even sure if it's the right time for planting

To be honest i have no experience or idea at all :eek: just wanted to try.

So can anyone give me an idiots guide to growing your own ???

Thanks,

Lou x

angelavdavis

Check out the all-new Green-fingered money saving site - lots of tips there for veggy patches!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=134

stefejb

you are probably better off postingthis on the greenfingered board where you will get lots of help - good luck anyway

Pink.

Hi loopy-loo,

I've moved your thread over to the Greenfingered Moneysaving board where you should get more help.

Pink

rubix_76

loopy-loo73 wrote:

So can anyone give me an idiots guide to growing your own ???

Either watch "Grow your own veg" on BBC2 Friday night 8.30, they are about halfway through the series though. The BBC Gardeners world magazine from the January Issue has serialised the same programme, and if all else fails buy the book of the same name by Carol Klien £10 odd from amazon, £5 from book people.

As you can probably tell I think this series may be of help to you.

My wife and I recently obtained an allotment, and are new to veg growing and we have found this TV programme very useful, and the reviews on Amazon about the book are good, so I will be buying it soon (from the book people as it is £8.49 with postage)

Or you can always go to the library as there are TONS of gardening books that would be of help.

Hope this helps

Linda32

loopy-loo73 wrote:

Hi,

I thought with it being half term next week i might try to plant something not got a veg plot as such just a wide (ish) flowerbed at the end of the garden. not even sure if it's the right time for planting

To be honest i have no experience or idea at all :eek: just wanted to try.

So can anyone give me an idiots guide to growing your own ???

Thanks,

Lou x

Hi, it all depends on what you want to plant, once you get into veg growing, its quite an organised practice with certain jobs to do at certain times of the year. For example, now you can plant garlic and onion sets, (although you might not have room for onions). After the last of the frosts, which in my case is the end of May (You get to know) I can plant out tomatoes in grow bags or hanging baskets.

So what would you like to grow firsty?

Also remember you can plant in pots or growbags, so your veg dosn't have to be in your flower bed, although thats a very established and pretty way of doing things.

As long as the area is sunny, so do consider other parts of your plot.

evilwitch

rubix_76 wrote:

My wife and I recently obtained an allotment, and are new to veg growing and we have found this TV programme very useful, and the reviews on Amazon about the book are good, so I will be buying it soon (from the book people as it is £8.49 with postage)

or less with a free P&P code of which are knocking about on the codes board!

I bught the book(from Book People) last week and I like it. Takes it right to the basics and goes through building a raised bed (which is what we need to do) with pages on different crops (peas, beans etc etc) giving recommended varieties and a guide to growing. Was worth the £4.99 to me.


What you may be best off doing as its too early to plant much is to prepare the bed , dig it over and start on the weeds before they start to flower and seed and decide what you want to plant and check out the seed catalogues/garden centres etc for inspiration. Quite a few things need to be started off indoors or in a greenhouse first so you'll need trays for planting/ small pots/ compost etc. You can use old washed meat trays and the like for trays but PoundLand has them in so I usually get some from there, they can be reused year on year if they've had a good wash (just in case of disease).

rubix_76

evilwitch wrote:

What you may be best off doing as its too early to plant much is to prepare the bed , dig it over and start on the weeds before they start to flower and seed and decide what you want to plant and check out the seed catalogues/garden centres etc for inspiration.

I got an old double glazed pane of glass from a nice person through freecyle, and I keep meaning to build a cold-frame to start seeds, all I need is a few broken pallets, and it is quite simple. I saw Monty Don from Gardeners World building one from these.

Happy Friday

loopy-loo73

thanks all,
I hadn't considered the sun ... there isn't much down that end of the garden.
I think i'll dig it over, get rid of the weeds & get a book!!
Also might try growbags round the side of the house (much more sun).
I'd like to plant something useful, but also something nice, so tomatos? strawberries? (both nice - DD will eat them!) potatos? leeks? brocolli?
tbh hadn't really given it that much thought, just figured i should use the space for something useful not just replant bedding plants each year!
lou

hex2

Firstly don't panic yet - you still have time to do stuff, most things start in March.

There are some great web sites - have a look at https://www.rhs.org.uk they have a month by month guide as does the bbc gardening bit.

Lord_Gardener

More pointers here - just started by Sarah Raven in Daily Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/main.jhtml?xml=/gardening/2007/02/10/gveg10.xml