Grow Your Own Veg

It's the ideal time of year to start growing your own vegetables. If you've been thinking about starting off a vegetable bed now is the time to get going. If you are a total beginner to gardening start simple and try growing some mixed salad leaves, radishes, peas and broad beans. For inspiration head down to your local garden centre and browse the seed packets, but don't get carried away and buy too many .... which is bound to happen!

To get started you'll need to prepare a vegetable bed by digging over a small area of earth, even just a metre squared to begin with. If digging really isn't your thing or you don't have any land, you can still grow a good batch of salad in a grow bag or two.  Use a sharp knife to puncture plenty of drainage holes in one side of the grow bag and then cut away the top side of plastic for planting into.

I've been doing some weeding in the polytunnel and hope to get on top of it with some more helping hands this week. I hope to start planting into cell trays this week too and will probably keep those indoors until this new impending cold snap is over. I'm really looking forward to home grown salads every day and I'm yearning to be sick of courgettes again!

For some good gardening guidelines on starting to grow your own vegetables try my ebooklet which can be purchased via the Paypal store on the top right hand column. Happy gardening.

Comments

[debra]

We practice no-till gardening, layering organic material and never walking on the soil. Peas, lettuce, spinach and spring onions are in. More to come!

[Allotment Blogger]

Excellent advice for new vegetable growers - and you have the advantage of your own manure to feed your plants too - lucky smallholder!

[katshe]

thank for your advice. i also love gardening and your advice adds more information to my learnings and it also inspired to do hard in my garden.

[Jerry]

I keep telling my kids that they don't really know what vegetables taste like until they have had home grown ones! Eating home grown tomatoes proves that point better than almost anything else.

[greener grass]

I feel so delighted whenever I see gardens and lawns that are really taken care of.. Like they are landscaped and maintained beautifully to enhance the surroundings. Gardens are indeed a way to relieve stress, and they even catch the attention of passers by leaving some sort of appreciation to the owner of the garden. So basically, it is really essential to have someone help keep maintain the beauty of the garden if the owner is too busy to do it on his own. Remember that your surroundings can reflect who you are as a person, so much better to keep it clean and green. :)