Small vegetable plot advice

browneyedbazzi

RAS - do you know what variety you grew?

andrewf75

Will have try again this year with the cues. Had a few plants in the past and they always died without producing anything

wellused

The best soil to grow in is clay, as long as it isn't waterlogged that is. It holds on to moisture and lots of plants love it and don't require lots of nutrients. You can also improve its texture by adding compost which you can make yourself so it's free. I was also told that potatoes improved clay soil but believed that was an old wives tale and that it was in fact the work that you do by earthing up and weeding the rows that actually improved the soil, that was until I tried it and yes it was the potatoes which did the work as the soil is so much more friable now and that couldn't have been caused by the little bit of earthing up and weeding that I did.

RAS

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

RAS - do you know what variety you grew?

Unfortunately it was seed saved from a donated cucumber grown from donated seed by my plot neightbour Tommy!

Ridge type (has prickles when cut), thinish skin and makes a good size when 6" long.

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sobie

andrewf75 wrote: »

do cucumbers really crop heavily in our climate? aren't they more a greenhouse crop?

No outdoor ridge types like marketmore are perfectly happy outdoors.

bandgeek

Thanks for all the advice, I really like the idea of the square foot gardening, I think I'll have a go with that, maybe with two or three 4 x 4 areas, and double or treble up on some of the things that we will use more of.


A few certainties are peas, carrots, leeks, lettuce, spring onions and ordinary onions. Might have a try for some tomatoes and cucumbers, possibly beetroot and turnip. That gives us lots of choice!

wellused

Just picked up my seed potatoes and onion sets from the allotment association today, 6kg of potatoes and 500gms of onions for less than £8 can't be bad.