OK i want to start growing my own veg and fruit please help?

Question

OK i have 2 cooking apple trees 2 eating apples, 2 damsons, 1 plum, 1 gooseberry, 3 black currant, but now i want to learn how to grow potatoes, carrots, cabbage, onions, turnip, and strawberries, raspberries have some wild but not the same as very small and hard hard. i have loads of large flower pots used for flower shops, can i put them all in that or does have to be in ground, also can you make it short and simple for me please. how do i do it what i need do i use seeds or buy plants would like to try it myself. just really into it at moment also how grow sage, rosemary, garlic do i need green house cause dont have alot of money at min. also i live in northern ireland so please think of weather and what is good for me to grow, i have a field if they wont grow in pots please help. thanks also how to maintain not great with books that why asking for simple not to long on each, please

Answer 1

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hope its helps

Answer 2

Keep  it simple.

Plant collards and harvest the large leaves until frost.

Plant radishes.

Onions from starter plants. Do not use seeds.

Plant spinach now and two weeks hence, etc.

Tomatoes and peppers in large pots close to home.

If rabbits abound, use a 2 ft hi screen barrier, easily moved.

I have given up on fruit. The only fruit that worked for me is apples. Prune to form an open rack, then thin to produce large fruit. The same goes for other fruit and ornamental fruits.

Answer 3

Well, turnips are easy/clear some ground/scatter some seed(co-op's are the cheapest) at least 1 month before first frost.Harvest as needed(they grow faster than grass so weeding is optional. Onions/fall/winter plant needs plenty of water(slow growing)In fact of every thing you mentioned strawberries are probably the hardest(bugs) Just find a local Gardener and buy them a cup of coffee for any peculiarities to your area

Answer 4

ok, it is best to gave all your stuff in real ground.for most all your tubers(plants that the fruit is under ground) like potatoed carropt radishes onions, stuff like that is best to start from seeds,

for the smaller stuff(carrots radishes ect...)just make a little line in the soil about 1 inch deep and put the seeds in (you can put them in very close together

for potatoes, make a trench about 3 inches deep, put the potatoes about 3 inches apart and cover them back up.

for cabbage, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, ect... it is best to but them from a local greenhouse or nursery already started in packs.

for garlic, you have to plant it in the ground the same way you do potatoes, about mid fall, then harvest it next july.  so i is quite a wait for garlic.

hmm, im not too sure about berries,

Answer 5

veggies are easy

in pots or in the ground, doesnt matter

and you dont need a greenhouse

start with simple things, from seed

radish, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, peas, beetroot, onions etc etc

all uber simple, plant the seeds, look on line for how far apart etc, the BBC website is good for info

as for your herbs, again, so easy, i plant some in the ground for over the summer and autumn, and around aug sept i plant in pots for continuous crops throughout the winter, i have basil, chives, rosemary, sage, garlic, thyme etc

gardening is as easy or difficult as you make it, and if you have mastered fruits, veg is a walk in the park

have a look around this site, i find it very helpful and there is a diary type thing, of what you should be doing each week with your crops etc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardenersworld/

Answer 6

I'm growing all my veggies in big containers.  Just about everything can be grown in containers, I even have some watermelons.

Just fill them with potting soil and plant the plant.  Since this is the middle of the summer, you'd probably be best off starting with plants, not seeds.  Just head over to a good garden shop and pick them up.

But keep in mind that for container gardens, you really have to keep an eye on the water levels.  Keep things moist.