Who grows their own food?

flowertotmum

Good for you..we have grown our own for a few years now..the taste is amazing..and it saves me money ..we have a cherry tree,4 apple trees cookers and eaters,plum and pear..gooseberry bush,raspberry canes,red currant,white currant,potatos,cucmbers,toms,onions,springonions,squash,pumpkin,cabbages,sprouts,carrots and lettuce..brilliant..o and beans and peas..all will be picked and eaten if not then frozen,pickled,preserved or made into jams and chutneys..lovely and its a free hobby to do and you get back double what you put into it..
ftm

Sorry meant to add courgettes,spinach and radishes..
ftm

System

I think this is the third year of growing our own food and we are getting better at it every year. This year I have ventured into growing flowers for a couple of hanging baskets. Ive never done that before and am interested to see how it turns out.

We dont seem very successful with vegetables though but salad crops and strawberries we do really well with.

It was supposedly meant to be hubbys 'baby' but as he works away i do a lot of the maintenance. I dont like compost though so its left to him to do the repotting. I'll sew the seeds but hate repotting.

kittycat204

Isaac_Dunne wrote: »

I've always wanted to grow my own vegatables but been a bit weery of starting. I don't trust the british weather enough to provide me with the correct weather I'd need for growing...

i just put a few seeds in some pots and see what happens. last year i got a green house (during the winter ripped down by the weather) and did the seedling thing. this year put straight in, peas, radish, spring onion, 3 types of peppers, coriander, leeks, carrots, purple sprouting, lettuce, spinach and mixed salad leaves. everything but the peppers are coming up nicely. carrots a little too well, will def need thinning. all the seeds were left overs from last year, so kinda free food.

all i am giving them in a little weed pulling and water. don't want it to be a hassle and at the moment they aren't. love going out every day to see how they are doing.

Pink.

I'm growing potates, tomatoes, various chillies, different peppers, various lettuce, raddish, spring onions, parsley, basil, rosemary, thyme mint, oregano, strawberries, plums, blueberries, blackcurrants, reducurrants, rhubarb, courgettes, cucumbers, peas and mange tout. The weather has been a bit cold but it's all beginning to take off now.

We have a gardening board so I'll move your thread over there.

Pink

mummybearx

Thanks Pink, I know there is a gardening board, I just always post things on this board lol

We are really looking forward to having our own veg to eat, just bought a book on jams and preserves so we can keep things to eat all year round. Now just need to source jars to preserve everything in

Ken68

Two plum, two apple, two pear trees. Gooseberries. Chives. Potatoes.Lettuce greenhouse and outdoor, tomatoes. Lots of runners.
Parsnips, Leeks. Carrots, Swede, turnip.
Will swap some for cabbage and broccolli and Brussels, though land not ideal, they usually blow. It's all happening.

wogglemaker

zepsgal wrote: »

We are really looking forward to having our own veg to eat, just bought a book on jams and preserves so we can keep things to eat all year round. Now just need to source jars to preserve everything in

Go for 1 lb and 8oz (mustard jar size). I treated myself to
a couple of doz last year to re.place the mis mash of jars collected over years.. flea bay has a good range

Linda32

Hi, Yes we grow our own food, we are growing first early potatoes and main crop, runner beans, broad beans, onions, garlic, pumpkin baby bear, cape gooseberrys, loganberrys, raspberrys, strawberrys, leeks, tomatoes, carrots and raddish.

I think that covers it we do have an allotment.

mummybearx

wogglemaker wrote: »

Go for 1 lb and 8oz (mustard jar size). I treated myself to
a couple of doz last year to re.place the mis mash of jars collected over years.. flea bay has a good range

Thanks wogglemaker, will get onto fleabay

Was reading my Preserve and jam book last night, it was saying that the jars and lids need to be specific types so the preserves don't corrode the lids and make the contents taste funny? Surely the jars that sauces come in will be fine to use for preserving, seeing how food has already been in them?

wheels28

We are growing potatoes,carrots, lettuce, radish, red onions, garlic, tomatoes. chilli's, Broad beans, peas, broccoli, curly kale and beetroot, raspberries,blueberries and black currants.

We have 3 raised beds and plant a little of everything, I bought the potatoes,chilli's everything else was a gift or free seeds.

I also have a tiny fig tree that I bought last month it did have a little fig growing on it, but the dog ate it yesterday it gave him really bad wind, I would say serves him right but we were the ones suffering:rotfl:

This is only our second year of growing our own, and I would say to anyone just give it a go, you don't know if it will work for you unless you try. I have no idea what I'm doing I just read the back of the packet and hope for the best, mostly it seems to work.