Do you fancy having a go at growing some veg this summer? Getting out-of-doors will help us combat the challenges the pandemic has posed for us over the last year and learning the basics of growing our own food has to be a good thing. What better project than growing some of your own produce this year?
If you’d like to get on board with our fortnight long Beginner’s Veg course, just sign up here and, starting on East Sunday, we’ll send you a post every morning.
It might be good to order some of what you’ll need. You can get these from good old Amazon or a garden centre , but they don’t cost much.
- Seed potatoes – ones labelled ‘first’ or ‘second’ earlies
- Small bag of onion sets
- Seed packets: broad bean; dwarf green beans; courgettes; squashes; tomatoes, salad leaves, plus winter veg, cabbages, sprouts, parsnips
- Half a dozen strawberry plants
- Small sharp spade (if you’re going to actually create a veg patch)
- Plus: Around three bags of peat-free compost and a couple of bags of manure if you can get them + some little pots – even old yoghurt pots will do.
Our online veg course is also published as a book, priced £8.99 inc P & P.
Add in 10 fantastic veg greetings cards each a different design to make a fabulous gift. You can find them both at our online shop here
6 replies on “Welcome to: Beginner’s Veg”
This is a great idea, I usually try and grow a few bits but also forget when to start and what i should be doing so this will be so helpful. Thanks
Aww thank you Alison. Yes spring is all of a sudden upon us, so this is the perfect time to get going together isn’t it? Hopefully doing it like this will make us feel less ‘on our own’ right now too!
This is a wonderful idea. Thank you for taking the time to put so much advice online. Today is fabulous in the garden. I’ve just checked how my garlic is coming on – and it’s doing well. We are going to need our gardens over the next months to keep us from going stir-crazy!
Yes exactly Philip – and hopefully if we’re all doing this together it’ll make us feel a bit more jolly too! Thank you so much for sending us that encouragement.
Wow this is a fabulous idea, thank you so much ?
You are so welcome Sarah – let’s get digging together! x