Grow your own veg

[Karl]

Can anybody recommend a decent website for information on growing your own veg? We have decided to get the kids involved in growing veg etc from scratch (spent yesterday sewing a few seeds), and are in the process of making a veg growing border.

We don't have any experience of this and I need to do some reading up!

Cheers

Karl

 

[cambournepete]

Not directly, but there are many allotment (web)sites around...

 

[houtslager]

INEBG at http://www.newhousefarm.tv/forum/index.php

 

[wizer]

Here you go Karl.

www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/

There is a forum there which is excellent. Much the same atmosphere/community as here.

If you would like to borrow some books, just say. I have one or two

 

[Karl]

Nice one fella's. I will give those links a look over.

Tom - thanks for the offer. I'll PM you if I don't find the answers i'm looking for on the 'net.

Cheers

Karl

 

[Digit]

Believe me you won't recognise the taste of some that previously you may have purchased from the supermarket!

Roy.

 

[DeanN]

We started a couple of years ago - with lettuce, green beans, raddishes (the easy ones). As said above, a completely different "natural" taste to the produce. We're going to give potatoes a bash this year also.

You can read books and web-sites until the information is coming out of your ears - best to just get on with it and learn by your mistakes.

 

[BMac]

Here's a good site:

http://www.growyourownveg.co.uk/index.htm

Also, BBC Gardeners' World has some useful stuff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardenersworld/

 

[Grinding One]

We are growing tomatoes in buckets this year,hang bucket up on fence cut hole in bottom of bucket and install plant...tomatoes will grow down and you water from the top....the tomatoes do not lay on ground so no damage to tomatoes

 

[BradNaylor]

I found this forum very useful when I got my allotments a couple of years ago.

http://chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php

Cheers
Duncan

 

[ByronBlack]

my mrs is a veggie grower and has had her site/blog for a number of years, and there is tons of information on there for all veggie types, and guides for newbies:

http://mostlyiwillbegrowing.wordpress.com/

 

[frugal]

A great crop for the kids is cherry tomatoes. Just stick them in a big pot on the patio in a sunny sheltered spot. Our two love going out and eating them straight from the vine (we have trained them to always ask first so that they do not get used to eating red fruit from trees...). The same went for the current bushes we had at our old house.

Raspberries are also good as they keep cropping for a couple of months.

Last year we also grew sweetcorn which was a big hit (once they figured out how to eat them), and pumpkins and squashes whcih we grew from seed just for halloween.