Want to Grow Veg?

Question

Hi I want to grow veg in my massive garden but i no nothing about growing. What time of year should i grow carrots, colliflower, lettuce, peas in the pods etc and what sort of things do i need to protect them and to make sure everything grows right.

Answer 1

there is some good instructions on the back of seed packets i.e. when to sow and when u can reep the rewards. i bet there are no end of websites - try googling it or use ure local library.
good luck, things taste better from ur own garden.

Answer 2

Hi T.ashley - I suggest that first you find yourself a book maybe from the library (ask the librarian to help you choose the best one) along the lines of growing vegetables for beginners. I bought the Readers Digest Book of gardening when I first started, but that was about 50 years ago. Maybe you have a Gardening Club or Horticultural Society in your area which you could join and members would help to get you started.
There is a lot to learn to do it successfully - first how to prepare the soil for different crops (carrots love a sandy soil, for example so that they can grow straight and unrestricted), and what fertilizers to add to gives your veges a good start.
Unless you are growing under glass or using polythene tunnels, it's a bit late this year to do the full market garden bit.
You can still find sturdy, half-grown tomato plants for all sorts of varieties and you will need to stake most.
Some things grow quickly like salad crops (lettuce and mixed leaves) and you will still have time to get a reasonable crop.
Most things you would start around February under glass and plant out around beginning of May, or the old superstition was that seeds planted in the open ground on Good Friday would be the ones which would prosper. Frost is your beg problem, so runner beans aren't really safe till May, out of doors - you might be able to get a late crop of these if winter is late and you can find some in a nursery which have already germinated.
Look in Woolworths and Wilkinsons in February for your seeds - both places have done BOGOF's for the past couple of years when the seeds first come into the stores.

Answer 3

It is usually advised to grow vegetables and fruit that are expensive to buy. So, if you have a small plot, you wouldn't usually grow potatoes, especially as they take up a lot of space. But they are rather fun for the new gardener and, if you have room for half a dozen plants, you should get a few meals worth of lovely early new potatoes! I always advise people to get 'The Vegetable Expert' book by Dr D G Hessayon. He has written a whole series of 'expert' books, which tell you everything you need to know. Check them out on Amazon. Raspberries are good for space - plane the canes along the edge of the plot or at the edge of your garden. Buy canes from a nursery, or by mail order through the Internet or magazines. Seeds can be bought cheaply in reasonable quantities from many supermarkets - most other packs have too many seeds! This year, I'm planning to grow Runner Beans (a 'stringless' variety). I shall grow them up a wigwam of 6 x 8ft canes, to save space. Also dwarf French beans, and peas. Tomatoes are a good choice - either buy as plants or sow seed. Plant some cherry tomatoes (red and yellow) in a pot to save space. If you've got a compost heap in a corner of the garden, plant marrow and/or courgette seeds in pots and transplant to the heap when they are big enough. (Marrows can be harvested when they are small, as courgettes, or can be left to become marrows!) Carrots a good for the beginner - buy a thick variety, rather than long thin ones. I have the National Slug and Snail Collection residing in my garden, and even with slug pellets, I can't save enough of things like cabbage and cauliflower to eat myself! But spinach and rocket survive. Get some 'mixed leaf' salad - this is several salad leaf types and you just pull a few leaves off when you want them. Radishes and spring onions are good. Beetroot, parsnips, turnips, leeks are all easy. I hope this gives you some ideas. Now, we pray for a good season!

Answer 4

There is a book called The Vegetable Expert by D.G.Hessayon which will be easily available at any good high street book shop or Amazon. Suggest you buy this it has a lot of good advice for the first time grower. Have fun.

Answer 5

i'm so jealous of your garden, we've got an allotment, and i love growing stuff. it's getting on for some things now, but you can still do it. you can plant the following now,, radish, lettuce cabbage(but i find them a little harder to grow ) go to your local garden centre and see if they have any pre potted veg straight for planting out.... runner beans are dead easy, just water them and place them in a watered hole of compost and push the soil in firmly around them.. beetroots are lovely you can do these from seed...it may be late for spuds, but chuck a couple in too and see what happens...make sure they have shoots on them though. sweetcorn you can put seeds in pots and grow them on your windowsill ready to put out in afew weeks... peas are dead easy too, just need something to climb.....buy some fresh herbs in pots from asda too, and plant them out. tomatoes, you may be able to get from a plant sale or something or from the g/centre..definately do some pumpkins, they will be ready for october, and you can put sprouts leeks broccoli turnips in now...the main thing to remember is that if you want them out in the garden in the nest few weeks pot them as seeds in pots on your windowsill first...oh, spinach is good too, and courgettes. good luck

Answer 6

you are best starting in May ,but anytime before the end of July should produce veg.Grow spinach and leeks around your crop as bugs dont particularly like eating them

Answer 7

you need to get a decent gardening book it should tell you all you need to know ,a great idea saves you money and tastes much nicer

Answer 8

grow them all in the winter with nitrogen fertiliser and just watch the magic happen

Answer 9

want to grow vegina?

Answer 10

go to visit your local allotments the people there will only be to please to help you or buy a book on veg gardening