Garden Veggie Advice

Bozacke

Hi,
Thinking of starting a vegetable garden and looking for advice or web sites of what and when to plant. I'm in Galway and I have about 1/2 acre of clear sunny (when the sun is out) land and do to work cut backs, lots of spare time. Any advice of what type of veggies to grow and when, but because of work cut backs I'm on a low budget. I was thinking of starting potatoes in a few weeks, also any advice on the type of spuds to plant?

starbelgrade

I'd recommend getting a good book dedicated to vegetable growing... "Grow Your Own Veg" is a Royal Horticultural Society book written by Carol Klein and is very comprehensive. It's also an organic veg book & gives advice on everything from how to set out your plot, how to grow from seed, when to plant & when to harvest etc.

Basically you can grow almost any vegetable - if you have a greenhouse, even better. My plot at the moment has garlic, leeks, potatoes, herbs, onions, broad beans, courgettes, carrots, spinach and chives. All of them are fairly easy to grow, though I've had some problems with pests.

As for spuds, Kestrel are a particulary good variety as they can be used for all types of cooking - they roast, boil & chip equally well. Cherie are pink skinned and have a really nice flavour ans Picasso are one of the heaviest cropping potato & are resistant to eelworm & scab.

FarmerBrown

A nice early Queen potatoe is hard to beat if grown on 7-6-17+S to help increase the dry matter content.

starbelgrade

FarmerBrown wrote: »

A nice early Queen potatoe is hard to beat if grown on 7-6-17+S to help increase the dry matter content.

I haven't tried them - but I might now!

sorella

There is a huge amount of info online; try one of the bigger garden forums, eg Kitchen Garden.

They are very keen to share.

Also a good book is The Vegetable Expert.

Still just time to sow broad beans..Mine are just coming up in trays outside so I can cover them against frost.

Because potatoes are so cheap and plentiful we rarely bother; just a few in large tubs.

But they are great for breaking uo the ground that first year.

We aim for self-sufficiency as much as we can and as cheaply as we can.

Above all, plant what you enjoy eating most; the flavour will be second to none.

sorella

Wonder if you are near us!!

We are new here so this year will be limited.

And no greenhouse or tunnel.

starbelgrade wrote: »

I'd recommend getting a good book dedicated to vegetable growing... "Grow Your Own Veg" is a Royal Horticultural Society book written by Carol Klein and is very comprehensive. It's also an organic veg book & gives advice on everything from how to set out your plot, how to grow from seed, when to plant & when to harvest etc.

Basically you can grow almost any vegetable - if you have a greenhouse, even better. My plot at the moment has garlic, leeks, potatoes, herbs, onions, broad beans, courgettes, carrots, spinach and chives. All of them are fairly easy to grow, though I've had some problems with pests.

As for spuds, Kestrel are a particulary good variety as they can be used for all types of cooking - they roast, boil & chip equally well. Cherie are pink skinned and have a really nice flavour ans Picasso are one of the heaviest cropping potato & are resistant to eelworm & scab.