Vegetable garden beginnings
I’ve started growig vegetables. The main reason is self sufficiency, but the secondary reason is the price of vegetables in the shops. I cooked a risotto for family recently (for 10 people) and just the tomatoes alone were over $15. Instead if that, I have bought a punnet of seedlings for $2.50 and we have about 12 plants. According to a @lucass his small number of tomato bushes yielded more than he could eat in a week!
All you need to do is find a patch of soil, check your pH levels, fertilise the soil and plant your seedlings.
An advantage of planting already underway seedlings is it stops local birds making a meal of your new backyard crop. They tend to leave small plants alone, just eating seeds.
If you have chooks, you already have a source of fertiliser for your garden beds.
I’ll post about no dig garden beds and using chook manure for the plants another time.
Even if you have to use pots, get out there and start a couple of your favourite vegetables growing!
