Fruit / Vege gardening

I don't have a vege garden yet, but am planning on doing one soon.  I'll come back here later  for some tips

Jazzy you ought to be able to plant lettuces, celery and spinach at that time.  And probably plenty of other things depending upon where you are.  And don't worry about too much weeding!  Just weed a small patch and start from there.  Then it becomes easy because you have a reason to go out of check your veges - you can pull out a few more weeds each time. 

I always have a good vege garden over summer, i slack off over winter because veges seem cheap enough from the supermarket.

In spring/summer/autumn we grow, silverbeet, spinach, capsicums, spring onions, leek, lettuce, tomatoes.

We have had no problems growing capsicums. They are alot smaller than the ones in the supermarket. But much cheaper tan $2 each

Spring onions are very easy to grow. They are great for salads.

Im going to try snap peas this year. Hope they turn out good.

heaf3 is there anything special you need to do with pumpkins?  The last time I grew them they didn't really get past very small green things.  They had grown from pumpkin seeds I'd just thrown into the garden - which is what I'm kind of planning to do this time but any tips would be appreciated.

I'm also going to try capsicum from seeds.  Fingers crossed it works - I figured I might as well try it and see what happens.

Myonlineself that's my style of gardening!!  I have such a big section that was very porrly maintained before I moved in so I'm doing a mixture of planting bits and pieces and cutting back all sorts of things.  There are huge piles of weeds and overgrown trees everywhere.  I put a couple of tomatoes in today - a bit early but they did pretty well last year at this time. - over the week I weeded enough space to pop them in!  Next job is to remove all the crap from the place I want to create my compost bin.

DH wants to do raised planters so I asked him if he would make some...NO he said...not good with a hammer, brilliant with a computer ha ha. But he will get out there & clean up the area I want to use...next weekend

I have a greenhouse and that currently has in it, tomatoes, cucumber, courgettes, beans, chillis, capsicum, basil  and a few other ramdoms things like an eggplant.

Outside I have carrots, spring onions, peas, silverbeets, cabbage, beetroot in already and a few things are almost ready.

I ahve 2 grape vines, a raspberry, bosenberry, 2x passion fruits, lemon, lime, orange, manderin, tangello and fejoia trees in as well.

I still have a few more things to do before we can plant everything out.

The only thing I found with growing peppers (capsicums) was that the birds got into them pretty quickly, so its worth sticking net over them. I have had great success with apple cucumbers too, they are tasty in salads and grow with no assistance!!! I am gutted - we just moved house and I had to leave our vege garden and fruit trees behind. I dont have room for one here, so am just going to stick some herbs and lettuces in pots!

Any ideas what else grows well and easily in pots?

 

Tomotoes do Freckle. You can grow almost anything in a pot.

our Gardens are growing nicely.
we have 3 raised beds and one green house and some pots.
in one gargen we have mint and rhubarb.
in one we have beetroot, carrots, cabbage, cauli, broc, silverbeet, and lettuces, spuds and yams
in the last garden it has 2 distinct boxes and has strawberries, parsnips, a lemon tree and we are going to put in a lime tree too.
in the greenhouse we have 3 tomato plants, 2 courgettes (until it warms up then they go outside- in their pot) and a cucumber plant.
in the pots we have spuds and yams.
and we have an apple tree too.
and we have an albany suprise grape vine and even though we live in dunedin we get heaps of grapes off it, and we dont fertalise it but prob should as the grapes are quite tart.

we also seem to grow pumpkins each year as we compost the seeds and they grow.
all we did last year was moved the plant to the front of the vege garden and let them go for it.
once the pumpkins grow on the vines we sat them on a board so the lawn didnt rot them.
they did well and of the 5 plants we had we got 22 medium sized grey crown pumpkins.
we never fertalized them as the dirt they are in was pure horse poo and compost from the bin.
the only care we did was pick out runners and shorten the vines so they didnt get too wild

Edited by Mucky_Tiger

looking good MT

hmm growing things in pots that might be more my style