winter veg

[sarah24]

Hi everyone,

This summer has seen my first attempts at growing my own veg - I've got tomatoes, courgettes, and mangetout on the go. I'm yet to taste any of it yet, but have so enjoyed watching the plants grow and develop! I would really like to keep growing through the winter, and was hoping for some advice about what would be good for a novice...? So far, I have been growing from plants I have bought, but am keen to have a go from 'scratch'. At the moment, I am limited to growing in pots as we only have a small paved area outside, although we are moving at the end of Aug, so there's a possibility I'd get a 'proper' garden then!

Any advice would be very gratefully received.

Thanks,

Sarah

[tootles]

You could start off cauli's, cabbages and purple sprouting broccoli now to be planted out in your new garden in August. But they will really need and veg bed rather than pots unless you only want a couple. You could also plant some spuds in pots soon for a Christmas harvest.

[lzyjo]

Salad greens are easy to grow from seeds in containers and they mature quickly so there is a great "excitement return" in no time. Peas also like the cooler autumn weather and lettuce and be grow with a little frost protection.