Do you grow your own vegetables?

@indonesia-phil said
Well done in buying your new abode. We had a large veg plot in our last but one house in England, and I recommend you give it a go if you have time. In the end we produced so much that we had to buy a chest freezer to keep it all in, but we never had to buy vegetables...There's no point really in giving specific advice, as it all depends what you like to eat, and there ...[text shortened]... s will never taste the same again.
Good luck, and may the forces of nature be with you, dear chap.

Thanks Phil. I have to report that the purchase of this property fell through, hence my other thread about looking for somewhere to live. Nevertheless I will be growing some food in wherever I end up in the not too distant future.

I love growing vegetables. Even though I live in an apartment, I have been lucky enough to have two 3 foot X 12 foot allotment beds to care for. I have peas, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, kale, lettuce, beets, onions, cabbage, broccoli, beans, kohlrabi, potatoes, herbs, nasturtium and other flowers.

You can literally grow anything, anywhere. When rookie and I lived together, I cried and begged for a vegetable garden plot, so rookie tilled the drainage area across the street from us...something crazy like 50 feet X 6 feet (or was it more?—I’m super spatially challenged). We watered it daily but also had full advantage of the drainage whenever it rarely rained. People slowed down in their cars to see how it progressed.

My best advice:

Keep it simple
Plant what you like to eat
Put the seeds in the ground
Have faith, but keep it weeded—it’s ok to ignore
it for a little while every so often
Don’t be afraid to experiment
It’s ok if a crop “fails”, you can always re-plant,
and there will be another season

Enjoy!

@hakima said
I love growing vegetables. Even though I live in an apartment, I have been lucky enough to have two 3 foot X 12 foot allotment beds to care for. I have peas, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, kale, lettuce, beets, onions, cabbage, broccoli, beans, kohlrabi, potatoes, herbs, nasturtium and other flowers.

You can literally grow anything, anywhere. When rookie and I lived together, ...[text shortened]...
It’s ok if a crop “fails”, you can always re-plant,
and there will be another season

Enjoy!

Beautifully said. It's a miracle.

@hakima said
I love growing vegetables. Even though I live in an apartment, I have been lucky enough to have two 3 foot X 12 foot allotment beds to care for. I have peas, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, kale, lettuce, beets, onions, cabbage, broccoli, beans, kohlrabi, potatoes, herbs, nasturtium and other flowers.

You can literally grow anything, anywhere. When rookie and I lived together, ...[text shortened]...
It’s ok if a crop “fails”, you can always re-plant,
and there will be another season

Enjoy!

Well done you and great advice from an experienced grower.

I’m a big fan of kale, Nero de Toscana, which is a perennial for up to 3 years and also one of the most nutritious vegetables on the planet. I’ve nurtured 40 plants this year and have them under Environmesh. Last year I made the big mistake of resting the mesh over the plants which of course allowed butterflies to lay eggs on it 😫 so I’m expecting a bumper crop this year.

Have discovered that runner beans are a perennial so with our milder winters here in Wales I’ll be leaving my plants in this year. Also have experimented with maize this year and will be trying your Three Sisters planting next year to include squash and runner beans as was done in your Native American villages.

My thumb, unfortunately is black and blue (from me trying to "fix" things around the house) and not green. I could kill a cactus even if I lived in a desert.
🙁

@divegeester said
During lockdown I’ve bought a new place. To be precise sold just before and bought just after lockdown.

The new place was owned by a keen grow-your-own couple and has several very large vegetable areas and others growing fruit. Also a large greenhouse and a potting shed. I’m now looking at it in blinky-eyed bewilderment.

What are your experiences, advices and top tips for growing your own?

Sledgehammer, sand and paving slabs. That’s what I employed when I ended up paying for some else’s fetish.

@kevcvs57 said
Sledgehammer, sand and paving slabs. That’s what I employed when I ended up paying for some else’s fetish.

i am the anti-gardener
i kill because it's there
not just weeds and thistles and kreeping kudzu
it's anything that gets in my hair

~ "concrete" kevcvs57




this is a joke folks, i love this guy

@hakima said
I love growing vegetables.

it's true
i flourished when she watered me

edit-
remember when i planted about 8.62 billion watermelons and the they began exploding from heat expansion?
ah, good times

@rookie54 said
it's true
i flourished when she watered me

edit-
remember when i planted about 8.62 billion watermelons and the they began exploding from heat expansion?
ah, good times

😲

@rookie54 said
i am the anti-gardener
i kill because it's there
not just weeds and thistles and kreeping kudzu
it's anything that gets in my hair

~ "concrete" kevcvs57




this is a joke folks, i love this guy

Still uncomfortably close to the truth though 🤭

Only unintentionally, between my toes.