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I started last year growing a few tomatoes (successfully) in a plastic mini greenhouse, some salad leaves in containers, strawberries also in containers all successfully (plus corn, peppers and aubergine unsuccessfully) and caught the bug. have just had a greenhouse build for my birthday and have done a vegetable patch (I have a very big garden which is mostly lawn and trees).
In the greenhouse (6x10) I have seedlings which I started in the house on Mother's Day and am just getting ready to plant things properly. This year I am just going to use grow bags but next year I will have beds in the greenhouse. I am planning tomatoes (cordons and tumbling), red peppers, aubergines, courgettes and maybe some lettuce and rocket (but can that go outside).
Outside I have planted potatoes, onions, courgettes (which I started in the house), pumpkin (again stated in the house), carrots, celery, spinach, dwarf French beans (these four I bought plants) and have some peas savoy cabbage and leeks which are still in the house propagating. I have also sown beetroot and broccoli directly into the soil. We have discovered some currants and gooseberry bushes in our garden but I think they have been neglected for 20 years (certainly for the 13 years we have lived here). I also have strawberries from last year (and babies form them as well)
My mum (who is not a gardener but her dad was an amazing gardener who had greenhouses and allotments when I was a small child in the 70s) thinks I am doing too much and should start with just a few things but I would rather try lots of things and accept some might not be successful.
Any tips on what else I should grown in the greenhouse? My husband has just realised that the greenhouse he put up will be largely veg which he isn't that keen on so if there is any fruit I could grown this year that would be great (we already have a successful grape vine that grows against the house (sheltered on 3 sides). I've said we will do some fruit next year as I think I need to prune the existing fruit bushes and look after them but if we could grow raspberries that would be good. Am I too late.
(sorry this is so long)
In the greenhouse (6x10) I have seedlings which I started in the house on Mother's Day and am just getting ready to plant things properly. This year I am just going to use grow bags but next year I will have beds in the greenhouse. I am planning tomatoes (cordons and tumbling), red peppers, aubergines, courgettes and maybe some lettuce and rocket (but can that go outside).
Outside I have planted potatoes, onions, courgettes (which I started in the house), pumpkin (again stated in the house), carrots, celery, spinach, dwarf French beans (these four I bought plants) and have some peas savoy cabbage and leeks which are still in the house propagating. I have also sown beetroot and broccoli directly into the soil. We have discovered some currants and gooseberry bushes in our garden but I think they have been neglected for 20 years (certainly for the 13 years we have lived here). I also have strawberries from last year (and babies form them as well)
My mum (who is not a gardener but her dad was an amazing gardener who had greenhouses and allotments when I was a small child in the 70s) thinks I am doing too much and should start with just a few things but I would rather try lots of things and accept some might not be successful.
Any tips on what else I should grown in the greenhouse? My husband has just realised that the greenhouse he put up will be largely veg which he isn't that keen on so if there is any fruit I could grown this year that would be great (we already have a successful grape vine that grows against the house (sheltered on 3 sides). I've said we will do some fruit next year as I think I need to prune the existing fruit bushes and look after them but if we could grow raspberries that would be good. Am I too late.
(sorry this is so long)
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