Veggie growing

HermeticAnarchist

HermeticAnarchist

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So I looked back 5 years and couldn't find a similar thread.

Who here grows their own veggies, what do you grow? How successful are you? Would you/Do you trade excess veggies with someone else? Hints/tips/questions etc.
 
Thought it might be fun, it's not difficult. Do not however think you're going to do it instead of buying more at the market or supermarket.

Also do not think you're going to do it without some form of pesticide.
 
It is fun to grow your own veggies. In the years that are busy, I just grow herbs, especially parsley - I love fresh parsley on my food.

I'm also looking at getting my hands dirty with local community gardens. For me it is the pleasure of hard work, and seeing the crops grow over money I save. It is also for a good cause.
 
Tantric Smurf said:
It is fun to grow your own veggies. In the years that are busy, I just grow herbs, especially parsley - I love fresh parsley on my food.

I'm also looking at getting my hands dirty with local community gardens. For me it is the pleasure of hard work, and seeing the crops grow over money I save. It is also for a good cause.
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This is a good post.

Im growing some basil but I always have to buy a additional packet at the shop, otherwise there's nothing left of my plant.
 
Tantric Smurf said:
It is fun to grow your own veggies. In the years that are busy, I just grow herbs, especially parsley - I love fresh parsley on my food.

I'm also looking at getting my hands dirty with local community gardens. For me it is the pleasure of hard work, and seeing the crops grow over money I save. It is also for a good cause.
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Herbs are ok. Veggies not so much

Weeding, watering, guarding against pests etc. And then there's only so much you can eat. Easier to grab what you need from a shop
 
Its been a while. I don't even get iceberg lettuce growing out of my lawn anymore after one of them shot its seed all over the place.
 
Bliksis said:
This is a good post.

Im growing some basil but I always have to buy an additional packet at the shop, otherwise there's nothing left of my plant.
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If you buy a basil plant from the shop you can split it into many plants. They overload those pots with too many seeds. Splitting them up you end up with loads of good healthy plants.

Remember that checkers promo where they handed out seeds? Really got into that and learnt that outside of herbs , chillies, others already mentioned, it’s hard work growing veg.
Still a fun thing to do.
 
Paul Kemp said:
If you buy a basil plant from the shop you can split it into many plants. They overload those pots with too many seeds. Splitting them up you end up with loads of good healthy plants.

Remember that checkers promo where they handed out seeds? Really got into that and learnt that outside of herbs , chillies, others already mentioned, it’s hard work growing veg.
Still a fun thing to do.
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I should have thought about that.

Coincidentally, the basil plant is one from Checkers, and arrived in the back of a scooter.
 
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