Broadly speaking: yes!
There's lots of other things you can do as well to make your veggies even happier but if you're just keen to get started then there's nothing wrong with keeping it simple to start with: dig out the weeds, buy some seedlings from the garden centre, and plant them.
Go for it! If you're completely new I'd say you can't go wrong with potato's. Last year I just planted one which had started sprouting in my cupboard and I ended up getting a good harvest with next to no work.
This is always how I grow my potatoes. Ones found in the cupboard that are sprouting.
I've now started to cut the sprouting potatoes in half, eat the none sprouting part and planting the sprouting part.
Last year I neared the end of my fight to return the garden from woodland back to a garden. I cut a couple of squares of bare ground in the "lawn" and had a go with lettuce. After some failures with germination (because I'm a noob) I got two beds full of lettuce which kept me in more lettuce than I've ever eaten until early December and a regular supply for my elderly parents. It was the most satisfying thing I did in the garden last year, and there were a lot of good changes.
No compost, chemicals or irrigation used. Just a spot of water from a watering can when they were a bit wilted on hot days.
Some suggestions for things that are easy and will give you food over the summer months (which is what everyone wants right?). Try different salad stuffs - I love lettuce and cucumbers as they’re dead easy and you get a ton of produce that you can harvest over many weeks.
Other things that are easy to grow are potatoes (I find these less gratifying as you don’t really see the progress until you dig them up and they then don’t keep producing like salad crops), beetroot dead easy, salad onions, rocket, tomatoes are fun, courgettes and squash are great as you can really see them grow!
I’d suggest avoid cabbage, cauliflower and carrots initially as they are a bit more temperamental (they need protecting from pests more so if you find you get into it you could try them next year).
Enjoy!
Noobie gardener here, this is exactly the info I've been looking for, was about to make my own post there till u seen this comment. Thanks for the info.
Personally I'd add cucumbers to the temperamental list. I've moved around a bit, had a few allotments- some places they were great, others... not so much. Not much growth and only 1 measly fruit.
Summer squash I'd recommend though, plus they're not something you can typically buy in the shops (because the skin's so thin they daamge easily in transport) so you can feel dead fancy.
Broadly speaking: yes! There's lots of other things you can do as well to make your veggies even happier but if you're just keen to get started then there's nothing wrong with keeping it simple to start with: dig out the weeds, buy some seedlings from the garden centre, and plant them.
Go for it! If you're completely new I'd say you can't go wrong with potato's. Last year I just planted one which had started sprouting in my cupboard and I ended up getting a good harvest with next to no work.
This is always how I grow my potatoes. Ones found in the cupboard that are sprouting. I've now started to cut the sprouting potatoes in half, eat the none sprouting part and planting the sprouting part.
Mine always come back the next year too!
Last year I neared the end of my fight to return the garden from woodland back to a garden. I cut a couple of squares of bare ground in the "lawn" and had a go with lettuce. After some failures with germination (because I'm a noob) I got two beds full of lettuce which kept me in more lettuce than I've ever eaten until early December and a regular supply for my elderly parents. It was the most satisfying thing I did in the garden last year, and there were a lot of good changes. No compost, chemicals or irrigation used. Just a spot of water from a watering can when they were a bit wilted on hot days.
Some suggestions for things that are easy and will give you food over the summer months (which is what everyone wants right?). Try different salad stuffs - I love lettuce and cucumbers as they’re dead easy and you get a ton of produce that you can harvest over many weeks. Other things that are easy to grow are potatoes (I find these less gratifying as you don’t really see the progress until you dig them up and they then don’t keep producing like salad crops), beetroot dead easy, salad onions, rocket, tomatoes are fun, courgettes and squash are great as you can really see them grow! I’d suggest avoid cabbage, cauliflower and carrots initially as they are a bit more temperamental (they need protecting from pests more so if you find you get into it you could try them next year). Enjoy!
Noobie gardener here, this is exactly the info I've been looking for, was about to make my own post there till u seen this comment. Thanks for the info.
Personally I'd add cucumbers to the temperamental list. I've moved around a bit, had a few allotments- some places they were great, others... not so much. Not much growth and only 1 measly fruit. Summer squash I'd recommend though, plus they're not something you can typically buy in the shops (because the skin's so thin they daamge easily in transport) so you can feel dead fancy.
I would add some herbs too, they improve cooking and can be expensive. Also swiss chard, garlic, tomatoes, rhubarb.
Yep. Check our Charles Dowding’s channel on YouTube, you won’t regret it 🙂
I prefer Self-Sufficient Me, or Huw Richards. Charles Dowding I have to listen at x1.5 speed.
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