veggie virgin

[johnnyt93]

Hi all,

Just joined looking for some hints and tips as a newbie to all this. Made my first small vegetable patch this year. I'm trying to grow peas, beans, sweetcorn, tomatos, parsnips, radish and swiss chard at the moment.

Hopefully all will go well, this is my progress so far.

[Lemon]

Welcome veggievirgin! Patch looks great! Well done! You'll be making a second patch soon to grow more stuff in!!! :P

[Lemon]

.......ps..........add in the area where you are 'cos if looking for hints and tips the others (with more knowledge & experience ) will find it easier to give advice and suggestions based on your geographical location


Like the way you have taken on this veggie lark head first by growing loads of different stuff! I get carried away and think - "right, what else can I grow?"

[johnnyt93]

Thanks for the encouragement

I can see that this will prove very addictive, would love a second patch but the fiancee and kids won't be too happy about me digging more of the lawn up! Believe me, getting this space took some persuasion!

[Snadger]

Dig for victory, johnty93!

[COMPOST CORNER]

They may well change their minds when they taste the quality produce you offer them.

[sweetiepea]

Let them 'help' and they might change their tune. Welcome aboard.

[Two_Sheds]

They may well change their minds when they taste the quality produce you offer them.

Yeah, you can't eat grass

[susiewoosie]

I find containers are very good for growing veg

[johnnyt93]

I'll see how things go, all growing ok at the moment maybe the family will see the light when it comes to tasting it, although the kids may prove a tough crowd!

I have some chillis growing in a pot, sowed 5 and they all germinated which I didn't expect. They are about 2 foot tall now, should I put them out in the plot or try to split them up into 1 pot each, I'm scared I'll kill them.

[chriscross1966]

I'd stick them in a big pot (12" or bigger) and use short canes to train them away from each other...... that said you could probalby split them up but it would be a bit of a shock to them..... you're supposed to split them up when they're a lot smaller, but I guess you know that now :-)..... Next year I suggest you use "modules" to sow in, they're inserts for seed trays that have lots of small sections in, you plant one seed (of something like chilli or tomato) or a few seeds (onions, baby beet, herbs) in each module, that way there's no transplant shock, you can grow onions, snmall beets, herbs etc in small clumps, the bigger individual plants go into 3" pots then into final locations.... you can get really bigf ones (15 per tray) that you can start big seeds like beans (2 per pot) peas (4 per) or marrows/courgettes/squash/pumpkin (1 per). Makes it a lot easier to deal with the sowing and growing on... I use the 15 per instead of 3" pots for intermediate growing on of tomatos and a lot of other things.... all your stuff is in a standard size format so it's easy to knock up space efficient staging etc, it's all the same size....

chrisc