3 Steps to Growing Your Own
Vegetable plots can be a family affair
- Prepare your garden
- Visit www.rocketgardens.co.uk and choose your instant vegetable garden.
- Pop in your plants and watch them grow!
Some plants are easier to grow than others and some will grow better in one soil type, location, and so on than another. For this reason if you are at all unsure we recommend that if you haven't got a book on the subject now may be the time to get hold of one!
Joy Larkcom's book Grow Your Own Vegetables does pack a huge amount of useful information into a small book it includes plenty of organic techniques.
Rocket Gardens plants and products are aimed at removing a large amount of the labour element from growing your own and for many the most time consuming and difficult - that first stage of seedling establishment. Using Rocket Gardens seedlings also eliminates the requirement for much of the usual essential collection of gardening equipment, garden, greenhouse and shed space etc.
Preparing your garden
There are numerous ways that the vegetable garden can be prepared prior to planting your Rocket Gardens seedlings. Some methods are more time consuming than others. Due to the infinitely variable nature of our customers gardens only a summary of techniques are described below.
Traditional plot- where the whole area is cultivated with plants normally grown in rows.
Some plants are easier to grow than others.
Craig, Top gardener
It is important that soil condition and fertility is as good as possible. An excellent method of natural improvement is by applying worm cast fertiliser. Raised beds is a popular technique where a series of beds are divided by permanent paths. Advantages include the fact that there are no muddy tracks between the plants and the closeness of the vegetables smothers most weeds.
Containers / window boxes – are ideal if space is limited. Many vegetables and herbs can be successfully grown in containers depending upon size of the container and its location. Examples of plants that will grow successfully in containers include: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, dwarf and runner beans, salad lettuces, courgettes (in a large container), brassicas, leeks etc. Most herbs will grow extremely well in a well sited container.
Plant out your seedlings and watch them grow!
When your ground is well prepared it is simply a matter of spacing and planting your seedlings correctly to create your instant growing vegetable garden. If you are using one of our starter veg packs here are a couple of suggested garden layouts that may help you make decisions.