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Hi there, as title says, total newbie to attempting to grow some of our own veg.
We have a small back garden, and in an attempt to bring the garden back to some of it's former glory we've spend the weekend weeding and hacking back some of the overgrown stuff from the borders that works its way round the edge of the lawn.
In one of the more bare areas of the border we decided to s*d it and stop battling with the millions of roots just below the surface, so we built a small raised bed, about 40 cm tall, 70cm deep and about 1.5 to 2m in length with some of the spare left over decking materials, and now we are looking for some advice on what to start growing in there. I'd say the raised bed spends half the day in shade and half in full sunshine... UK sunshine that is!!!
The soil is a mix of basic topsoil (purchased from a local garden centre) and some all purpose compost (mostly topsoil though).
Whist realising it is probably way to late in the year now to actually get something planted and grown, we'd like to at least plan to grow some of the basics (potatoes, lettuce, broccoli, carrots, onions etc)
Is there anything I can think about planting this week that might have a chance of harvesting this year?
We're not looking to be totally sustainable or anything like that (yet lol) but having never grown anything other than a geranium before we both like the idea of having this small patch and at least getting something out of it ourselves :-)
Thank you in advance for any advice...
We have a small back garden, and in an attempt to bring the garden back to some of it's former glory we've spend the weekend weeding and hacking back some of the overgrown stuff from the borders that works its way round the edge of the lawn.
In one of the more bare areas of the border we decided to s*d it and stop battling with the millions of roots just below the surface, so we built a small raised bed, about 40 cm tall, 70cm deep and about 1.5 to 2m in length with some of the spare left over decking materials, and now we are looking for some advice on what to start growing in there. I'd say the raised bed spends half the day in shade and half in full sunshine... UK sunshine that is!!!
The soil is a mix of basic topsoil (purchased from a local garden centre) and some all purpose compost (mostly topsoil though).
Whist realising it is probably way to late in the year now to actually get something planted and grown, we'd like to at least plan to grow some of the basics (potatoes, lettuce, broccoli, carrots, onions etc)
Is there anything I can think about planting this week that might have a chance of harvesting this year?
We're not looking to be totally sustainable or anything like that (yet lol) but having never grown anything other than a geranium before we both like the idea of having this small patch and at least getting something out of it ourselves :-)
Thank you in advance for any advice...
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