Which vegetables shall we plant?

[hunkermunker]

We've got a vegetable patch in our garden now - what shall we plant in it? Is anything wildly unsuccessful? I have visions of fresh everything, but it's not quite that big

Does anyone else grow veggies?

potatoes, carrots, leeks tomatoes, peas, lettuces, cauliflour, runner beans. We're doing the same and that's what we plan to grow. No experience as yet though, but local gardener reckons we can grow these fairly easily and we eat all of them, so even if we end up with too many, it'll still be fun to grow them.

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Yum! Love the idea of shelling peas I've grown myself!

We already have tomatoes, cucumbers, chillis and strawberries in pots, as well as some radishes I've grown from seed

We are growing courgettes, pumpkins (for halloween), broad beans, french beans, sweetcorn, potatoes, raspberries, strawberries, 3 types of lettuces, onions, chard and sunflowers (for birds in winter) in our veg patch, and tomatoes, cucumbers, red peppers, aubergines and canteloup melons in the greenhouses. Also grow eating and cooking apples, plums, damsons, apricots, cherries and figs.
Easiest and best value - 3 courgette plants, which will give you constant courgettes from june to september. And when you are bored of eating them you can let a few fruits grow to marrows and see how big they get! They take up a lot of room though. Definitely grow some salads too, lettuce freshly cut from the garden is wonderful.

I don't do carrots because the carrot fly always get them and I'm not organised enough to net them off. Also potatoes do have the annoying habit of suddenly dying of potato blight every so often...
Enjoy!

rhubarb is also good and dead easy to grow, as are artichokes-globe and jerusalem-all perennials so no work really. Onions/shallots/garlic also easy and good return. Purple sprouting broccoli is easy and good as usually expensive to buy. Second courgette recommendations but also various interesting shaped squashes (seeds of italy do a good range) always exciting to grow and find a use for! Beetroot and spring onions easy to grow from seed too. Edible flowers are fun too

We have potatoes onions garlic carrot sweetcorn and mini corn strawberries french beans purple beans tomatoes courgettes aubergines peppers cucumber lettuce cabbage peas and watermelons,i am mainly learning as i go, i have an allotment so get lots of help advice from the others who have been doing it for ages potatoes beetroot and carrots are so easy so i would start with those to give you some produce, then just try different things

I have recently moved and want to start a vege patch...where do I begin?

start with potatoes as they are easy and good for breaking up the soil

We've got:

Apples, pears - easy, they just turn up on the trees
Pumpkins - for Halloween - need lots of watering
Strawberries
Potatoes
Broad beans, planted in November, surprisingly easy and nice to eat, and provided ground cover over winter
Have planted lettuce and baby spinach
Plan to plant this weekend loads of herbs, even though they're supposed to be not that easy from seed, but I'll have a go
In pots - sweet peppers and chilli peppers
Ready to be planted out this weekend - bought as plants from a PTA sale: runner bean; pea; aubergine (to go in a pot); and cucumber

Get some rocket seeds. Easy to grow, and a darn site cheaper than buying it in supermarket! Sow at 2 week intervals, then you'll have it all summer long. It's not too late to sow... I did mine last week. You can also sow in pots.
Good luck and have fun!

I did my strawberries in a pot in the IL's garden. It's sort of a pain in the a*, but I took a tip and it worked wonders. I had DH hold a PVC pipe in the middle of the pot whilst I filled it in with the compost. He only needed to hang onto it till there was enough soil in there to hold it in place. Then, fill the pipe up with gravel. Pull it out. When you water, wet the gravel bit.

Worked a treat! Yum, strawberries!

Rocket seeds...are they spuds? there rocket something or other 75% off at the garden centre, a bag of spud it looked like near the bulbs...can you tell im a beginner lol!

I've just started with veggies this year. I've put potatoes in and peas and carrots. It's a PITA keeping my cats off it though. I covered the patch with netting last week and the wretched creatures have scratched it up! I've also got courgettes and runner beans in pots, ready to put out and some tomatoe plants and lettuce seeds. Also non-edible gourds, which should be fun to grow.

Saw this thread and got all excited

Really into growing veg, and was pleased to make a bird deterrent thingy yeasterday using the framework from and old paddling pool and netting which is protecting some of my seeds which are poking their wee heads through. We have had nothing but rain for 3 days solidly, apart from yesterday and was worried that it would have been all too much for them (how sad am I????) Need some sunshine here please.

HAve growing- carrots(2 types)leeks, broccoli, cabbage, onions, green beans, parsnips,brussel sprouts( don't know why as no-one really likes them), sweetcorn, courgette, spinach. Also got apple, pear, plum and cherry trees, strawberries and blackcurrants.

I've been buying a great magazine called the Kitchen Garden which is like having an experienced allotment gardener helping you- lots of good info for peeps like me who don't know what they are doing.

Watch out for squirrels when the sweetcorn's ripening - we only ate one cob when we grew it, the squirrels had the rest! I couldn't think of a good way to keep them off, short of a full-blown fruit cage. But then we have an ongoing squirrel issue, which you may not have.

Tonight for dinner we'll be eating home-grown potatoes, peas and (miniscule) carrots.

What do I do with the pea plants? Are they finished once you've picked the peas or do they go on producing more? My courgettes and gourds are rubbish, as are the runner beans. I suspect the poor spring and lack of sun this year may have contributed.

leave the pea plants in the ground. They( being a legume) provide valuable nitrogen for the soil. Dig them in in the spring. Sorry to here about other veg, I've only had 2 or 3 decent onions this year, the rest rotted. When my kids were smaller, they loved pulling carrots but I had to watch them to make sure they washed them before they ate them!

So I can leave the pea plants. I was going to compost them otherwise, so they wouldn't go to waist. My onions don't seem to be doing all that much, either. They're maybe shallott sized by now.

We may be going abroad to live for a while so I'm now thinking about how I can get the garden to 'hibernate' while we're away. We have a chap who cuts the grass and tidies but I'm thinking of putting that black fabric stuff and mulch on the veggie beds to try and get rid of the weeds, once and for all. How do you keep the fabric in place? Our garden centre doesn't have anything with which to anchor it down, which seems odd!!

Waist?? - 'waste'

I like go to waist better its very descriptive.
I got some fabric pegs from B & Q, but I have also used tent pegs as we havent been campin for years!

A confirmed non-camper here so it sounds like a trip to B&Q, then! Thanks.