grow my own vegetables

I saw that someone else on here was sucessfull with square foot gardening. I think I will give that a try in Spring.

A friend of mine keeps a Vegetable Garden with ease but I’m going to start off small because at the moment I am only an intrigued novice.

I would like to grow:

Water Melon
Tomatoes
Strawberry’s
Lettuce
Basil
Rosemary
Thyme

Next: research!

Has anyone managed to harvest big Melons at this time of year in the UK??

http://jnwells.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/hot-pepper-medely/

This will be third place on 43T that I’ve mentioned carrots in the last 10 minutes! But I have to include them here.

Yesterday I harvested my first ever carrots :) I was so excited and it was so satisfying.

The carrots are growing in a small trough in the greenhouse. It’s not the time of year to be harvesting carrots outside but I read that some varieties will work at this time of year in the greenhouse and thought I’d give it a try.

I’ve been thinking that perhaps they wouldn’t work out because I had such lovely feathery foliage with no sign of a carrot underneath. Then I learned that the carrot part starts to peek above ground as it gets bigger and sure enough … lots of teeny carrots!

I also read about sowing the seeds more closely together than recommended and then thinning as they grow – using the thinned baby carrots in salads etc. It’s worked perfectly. Yesterday’s carrots were tiny (but perfectly formed) and were soooo delicious! And now there’s more room for the others to get a little bigger. I’m going to sow some more later I think!

Now if only I felt this confident about the potatoes: also in containers in the greenhouse. Again – lots of foliage and strong growth above ground but lately the leaves are dying off. I tried poking around in the soil yesterday – and found nothing. Not a potato to be had – not even a teeny one :(

I’ll look again today.

I live in a one bedroom flat right now, so need to start small, unless I can use my parents garden… hmm, will need to ask them.

Well the summer is a distant (and rainy) memory. And we ate our fill of tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs. The squash was not as successful as I would have liked (what I tasted was great), BUT I will try again next year. Overall, it was a great experience. I think I am becoming a gardener!

I have a very small strip of land next to my house and when I say small, I mean small, but I could probably grown a very small portion of three vegetables. I’m in north florida. When should I plant them? Any advice? I’m thinking about doing tomtatoes in a planter and maybe cucumbers, bellpeppers, and lettuce or okra? Any suggestions? I’m open to any suggestions. I’m clueless.:-)

.. specific enough. I have already grown some vegetables; I am still growing them. Perhaps I will use this space to record what I’m growing and what I plan to grow.

Until this summer I’ve never had the slightest inclination to grow veg. I love gardens and gardening but I was a flower girl – not interested in the edible stuff – especially as it invariably came with attendant slugs and other such things.

Then for 6 years I had no garden. I missed it increasingly as the years went by. And now I have one again – a LARGE one at that. With a greenhouse. And fruit trees. And fruit bushes. This is all new to me and I am loving it.
So at present my aims are:

• make best use of the greenhouse for as many months of the year as possible
• renovate and tend the fruit trees so we get the maximum yield from them
• restore and extend the fruit cage
• start a vegetable plot
• make use of everything we grow: waste nothing

Still no spuds planted, neighbour’s spuds are already emerging from underneath the lawn clippings mulch…
Excuse? Of course! Time!
I dug 3-4 inch channels leading down to the back of the garden, initiallly I was going to plant the spuds in these channels. But then dad advised me to actually plant them in between so I’d have plenty of topsoil for to ‘heap them up’ two months later.

Next spring!!! Im starting to gather all of my supplies now, and im making a space. I started this when i dropped some garlic cloves out back[don’t ask] and a few months later, i had these really pretty flowers!!! I decided to dig one up to see what it came from, and IT WAS A CLOVE!!

then i thought “Wow..this would be really cool to grow some veggies from my own yard!”
thus my idea was born.
Cant wait for spring to come