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How do I grow onions and potatoes?

Is it rewarding and fun to grow your own vegetables in your back garden ?

  • for years now, I've had this fascination and desire to do gardening. Its fun, its relaxing and therapeutic and rewarding. Its november - what sort of Vegetables might I be able to grow now - thru into Dec,Jan and Feb ? I'd love to give Potatoes, Carrots and even Onions a go. no idea if any of them are in season or out of season for this period. Do you need to do your homework first, to find out the ideal conditions to grow certain vegetables ? what are the basics - the essential things you MUST do to get off to a safe start that will give me satisfactory results ? the idea of growing my own potatoes and making chips sounds quite fun. Or using the onions & carrots grown by myself, in cooking.

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    For the first couple of years, you will spend quite a bit on your tools, pots of different sizes, bags of compost to make your soil good, Insecticide and fungicide spray along with other sprays which you will need, garden canes, cloches, water butts and hose pipe etc. Its hard work in preparing everything and keeping it that way, but once done you will get great satisfaction when picking them fresh from your ground plus giving a few left overs to your neighbours. It depends on how serious you want to make it and it can be more expensive than buying from the shops at times, but once you get the bug you wont be able to stop. As for your information. You can get all this from your own P.C. Just type in...for eg... (growing cabbages) and it will give you all the info you need. ( Or preparing a vegetable garden.) It will tell you how and when to grow all types of veg. As for your seeds...Buy them off ebay, there are some good cheap sellers there. Don't get paying high prices from shops or garden centres when you can buy them for 99p a pack. You will soon learn what to do and what not to do. Its not the growing you have to worry about, its all about getting the soil right. Just like I said at the beginning. Buying compost and adding all what you can to the soil to make it a good texture, as your veges wont grow very good just in soil alone. Happy Gardening.

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depends upon which part of the UK you are in here state side we can't grow anything north of the mason dixon line so that answered your first part of the question - ts november - what sort of Vegetables might I be able to grow now - thru into Dec,Jan and Feb ? second part - Do you need to do your homework first, to find out the ideal conditions to grow certain vegetables ? nope - we don't - read the back of the seed package and get it into the ground - nature takes care of the rest third part - what are the basics - the essential things you MUST do to get off to a safe start that will give me satisfactory results ? basic garden 101 - google it - much to much to type here - but you will not be satisified with the results because that is the way it goes - you gan do everything correctly and get one potatoe - that is the way nature is you get what you get - you can't predict it - you are on a small scale - back yard gardner - be lucky to get three salads and potatoe soup maybe a stir fry good luck - you need about 2 acres for a proper table garden to feed a family - any less doesn't yeild enough for the season - a trunk garden for corn and potatoes - that is an acre with just thoes in it - that way they produce enough to feed you

t-rexs

It's kinda a great accomplishment once you've grown your veggies, fruits, etc on your garden. Just thinking that when you need something for your cooking you will just go outside and pick what you need...Its so much fun!!!!

Rainbowkiss

You can't really grow vegetables at this time of year. But you could amuse yourself by growing cress, mung beans and the like inside which are very tasty. Mushrooms perhaps are also possible. Get one of those boxes keep warm and dark in the airing cupboard (or next to the boiler) most people don't have airing cupboards now. Also some herbs. Anything really you can grow inside given enough heat.

David C

yes it's a lot of fun but requires a lot of research and lot of time

radiorog8

It's only fun and rewarding if you have little else to occupy your life. It is time consuming, hard work, costly compared with buying from a supermarket, and frustrating when you encounter disease and insect attack. However don't let me dissuade you. You can buy a book called 'Be your own vegetable expert' in all the garden centres. It's a mine of information and will help you avoid the pitfalls.

Bazza

Yes, it is very rewarding to have fresh vegetables. Their taste is so much better than the ones you get from the stores that have age on them. Like tomatoes and cucumbers. The ones you buy taste like card board compared to the ones you grow. There is a lot of work and fighting bugs when growing a garden, but it is worth it. It looks like the ants, aphids and other bugs are out some where waiting to move in on a garden. Bees and wasps are your friends in a garden. Your location depends on what you can grow. Potatoes, carrots and onions are fall and winter crops. Carrots can take real cold weather. Here is a web site that is good to explore in. http://www.gardening.about.com

jean ann j

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