New to growing my own

downnotout

Hello all, I am looking for some advise about starting to grow my own next year. I am on the look out for a free/cheap greenhouse (eventually I will buy one if needs be). I use 3-6 peppers a week, which now cost a fortune, so a list of peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers are on top of my list of things to grow. Trouble is save for a sack of spuds, I have never grown anything in my life. Any help tips or advise is very much welcome.

Leif

You will only get peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers for a few months of the year, so you will still have to buy from the shops most of the time. I guess peppers could be sliced and frozen, tomatoes turned into sauce and frozen.

For germinating pepper and tomato seeds you'll need an airing cupboard or a propagator. The cheap ones from B&Q are fine.

You might get cheap plant pots from your local dump. Ours puts things like that aside and sells them for peanuts.

I've found Real Seeds a good source of, errr, seeds, I'm not a fan of the big names sold in Garden Centres. I've found their chilli seeds to be decidedly iffy.

Ebay often has cheap used greenhouses. What about Freecycle?

If you have grass and/or hedges, them keep the cuttings and compost them down. A shredder helps but they cost a lot.

downnotout

I have a shredder and a huge darlek compost bin that I have been feeding all year, hopefully I will have a bit of good compost come spring.