Veg plot

[everyonebutme]

I've just moved into a new house with a small veg plot in the garden. The previous owners grew strawberries there. I'd like to grow something different for next year. Please can I have some advice (not really been a gardener before!). What do I do with the strawberries? What can I plant that's not to difficult to grow? And when should I do this - in the spring next year? Thanks in advance for the advice.

If you have some seed packets of veg they will tell you when to plant . Runner beans are v easy but you need some 6ft canes for them to grow up. Likewise peas but these need shorter canes.
When the plants appear, growing from the seed, slugs or birds might eat them so watch for that .
Potatoes take up more room but are good, though seed poatoes are sold in bags of at least a dozen so would take up a lot of space if you planted them all. The strawberries can be pulled up and put on the compost pile.

If you want to keep the strawberries, you can move them elsewhere or even into a pot. Keep the largest of the plantlets that have grown on a runner, and ditch the original plant.

Peas like twiggy things to grow up - they have short tendrils at the end of each leaf that need to spread out all over the place, whereas runner beans (and climbing french beans) wind their stems around a single cane. So either use twiggy branches that you've pruned off elsewhere, or add a network of string (or netting) to your canes.

What do you like eating? No point in growing stuff if it'll be a chore to eat it. Think about what you'd like to eat, then we can tell you how easy it is to grow.

Peas and broad beans are easy to grow and are much tastier from the garden than the supermarket. Carrots and potatoes are also really easy.

Unless you don't like strawberries, I'd think about keeping them and just moving them somewhere else, such as putting them into pots by the back door.

For now though I'd leave the strawberries where they are as there's no need to get planting until the spring. If you clear the space now a few weeds will be there by the time you want to plant your seeds.