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Save Money, Protect Your Family and Become Self Sufficient in one!
You'll also gain a huge sense of achievement - Simply Grow Your Own Vegetables!
With more and more of us concerned about buying mass produced vegetables from supermarkets and the chemicals which were used to grow them, we've spent the past 3 years developing The Ultimate Vegetable Growing Media, a unique certified and tested blended soil, made with you and your family in mind.
We've tested many different blends of organic composts and organic manures with different types of soils until we grew the perfect crop, then we did it again and then again, before finally launching our latest high quality Topsoil mixture, our NEW! ORGANIC VEGEGROW™ TOPSOIL
Vegemix Top Soil is a hand picked mix of our quality, screened to 5mm Lawnmix® Top Soil, sourced only from organic greenfield areas which have been left fallow for upto 50 years and an equal amount of Soil Association Approved Rich, Black, Compost.
It is the perfect choice for your home grown vegetables, giving them all of the natural goodness required to produce an award winning crop.
All of our soils at Dandy's are obtained from greenfield sites and as award winning suppliers of quality topsoils and landscape supplies on a nationwide scale, we ensure that all of our products meet the highest standards possible, so that you can be sure you are giving your gardening and landscaping projects the best start possible when you purchase from us.
Easy to grow vegetable ideas
You hear a lot of talk these days about how good vegetables are for you. The daily allowance is of five portions of fruit and veg per day. But it can cost you a lot to buy fruit and veg at the supermarket. Despite all the advertising about supermarkets being low cost places they still charge a lot for vegetables. It is not uncommon for a couple of lettuces to set you back a few pounds. You can get veg much cheaper if you go down to the market, but you can't beat the very cost effective method of growing your own. Not only will you save money, protect your family and become self sufficient, but you'll also gain a huge sence of achievement.
Here are some of the best vegetables for you to grow on your own.
1. Spinach beet
This is a great crop that is very easy to grow. The slugs and caterpillars will have a gentle nibble at it but largely leave it alone. You can plant it directly into the soil and thin out the seedlings when they come up. You just take off leaves when you need them.
2. Radish
These were the first veg that I ever grew as a kid. They had a big advantage that they came up quite quickly. They have a nice spicy tang and are best off eaten on their own.
3. Lettuce
Lettuce can be easily grown and can be planted across the season. My personal favourite is the Tom Thumb as these can be picked very soon after sowing. Their size makes them very suitable as a single portion. The main problem with lettuce is that slugs and snails love lettuces and can destroy your whole crop. Slug pellets are some of the few chemicals that I would use on a garden. I understand that there is a biological control called nematodes. (Beer is another technique you can use)
4. Cress
This is a great one for kids. The seeds can be grown indoors on a few sheets of tissue (best is unbleached) or in a little compost. It’s not the easiest vegetable to eat but they can be spread on top of a salad or go nicely as an addition to a salad.
5. Cherry tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes are a real delight to grow, they are very easy to grow too. They can be grown from seed though I find that it is very easy to pick up seedlings from a village fete or from a vegetable shop or garden centre in late spring. They work best if you have a greenhouse, but I have grown them up against a sunny south facing wall. They can be grown in a grow bag, but you have to make sure that they get lots of water. You can buy irrigation hose pipes which will drip water at a constant rate if you wish.
6. Nasturtiums
“What?” I hear you say - Nasturtiums are a flower. Well yes, but you can also eat the leaves and flowers as part of a salad. The leaves have a fiery tangy taste, a bit like rocket. They are easy to grow from seed and have very pretty flowers. They are quite good at trailing from a hanging baskets. They seem to grow very easily and quite late in the season, but they can be prone to be eaten by caterpillars.
7. Potatoes
Potatoes can be easily grown from either seed potatoes or the old potatoes that have started to chit (sprout shoots). They can be grown in a trench and as the potatoes come up it is necessary to keep them watered and to cover the sides of the plant with our vegemix top soil. They can also be grown in barrels or a particularly common practice is to grow them in old car tyres that can then be raised up with soil as the potatoes grow.
8. Courgettes
Courgettes can be quite tricky to grow but with a greenhouse they can produce good results. They do not take well to no being regularly watered and can be prone to the same virus that effects cucumber plants. The secret seems to be grow the courgettes from seed yourself rather than buying them as seedlings from the garden centre. They can also be prone to aborting the courgettes that then tend to rot.
9. Carrot
Carrots can be grown to good effect and they can generate good “beginners luck” in the first year. They are prone to carrot fly which can cause problems, particularly in the second year. I have found that baby carrots can be very effective - particularly if you mix them around other types of vegetable.
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