Welcome to our gardening adventure! We are going to attempt to turn our boring city garden into a haven of vegetable production. Our aim is to grow enough veg to be self-sufficient for at least two months out of the remaining year (2010), plus, have lots of fun along the way. P.S. The only things we have grown previously are sunflowers and cress - this is going to be interesting!
Being a city garden we are going to need to grow our vegetables in pots, containers, in fact anything that we can punch holes in the bottom of and fill with compost. We've just got back from the garden centre (where we also found a great selection of yummy cheeses in the adjacent farm shop) having bought a few pots, lots of compost and some sweet pea seeds to add some colour and fragrance to our veggie garden. We already have a bunch of seeds from the BBC Dig In campaign, a great way to get started.
So, to start off we filled the large (9") pots with compost and sowed 1 pot with carrots, 1 pot with lettuce and 2 with the sweet peas. We put these straight outside and gave them a good watering - they were thirsty seeds! On the inside we put some tomato seeds into a seed tray and popped it on our kitchen window sill where it would be a bit warmer.
Now we must sit and wait for them to grow!
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