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I've just started growing this weekend and I'm super excited, we're starting with gardeners delight tomatoes and some chillies, once I've gotten into it a bit m

I've just started growing this weekend and I'm super excited, we're starting with gardeners delight tomatoes and some chillies, once I've gotten into it a bit more we're going to expand out with a few others (onions and lettuce I think). It'll make an excellent diversion from coding. It's great, I get a nice diversion and a load of fresh veg. Any extra I end up with will either go to friends and family, or if they're happy with it a local food bank.

hp50g 14y ago
good luck :) you can't go wrong with gardeners delight tomatoes - awesome variety. Chillis are a pain. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. salad crops are good starters and you can just throw them in a tray on a sunny window sill as well. Wouldn't bother with onions as its cheaper to buy. Try leeks if you have some space instead (let some flower as well as they look pretty cool). Enjoy and don't get discouraged by disasters. I've been doing it for 20 years and still manage to ruin something every year!
- nicholassmith 14y ago
  Thanks for the advice! For the moment they're getting grown in the kitchen and then they'll be planted out in our back garden, I've left it a little late in the year for a few but given the UK weather I don't think I'll suffer too much from it.
  - hp50g 14y ago
    Weather has been rubbish so far so you're doing the right thing. My tomatoes are about 2 inches high and on the living room window sill at the moment as I wasn't confident I could avoid last frost. Avidly watching weather reports!
- Surio 14y ago
  >> Chillis are a pain. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. :( Tell me about it! Neither did tomatoes, nor did Bell peppers/Capsicum, nor did those Courgettes, neither did the marrows, sugar snap peas... oh sugar! I am going to find a safe, dark place, and crawl into foetal position! >> I've been doing it for 20 years and still manage to ruin something every year! +1 Hope springs eternal. Thanks.
  - hp50g 14y ago
    That usually happens the first couple of years. First year I did strawberries I got one fruit and a fucking pigeon stole it. Never give up :)
    - Surio 14y ago
      :D That one cracked me up!! Thanks for that one mate!
  - PebblesRox 14y ago
    Your safe dark place sounds like a good candidate for growing mushrooms!

hp50g 14y ago

good luck :) you can't go wrong with gardeners delight tomatoes - awesome variety. Chillis are a pain. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. salad crops are good starters and you can just throw them in a tray on a sunny window sill as well. Wouldn't bother with onions as its cheaper to buy. Try leeks if you have some space instead (let some flower as well as they look pretty cool). Enjoy and don't get discouraged by disasters. I've been doing it for 20 years and still manage to ruin something every year!

nicholassmith 14y ago
Thanks for the advice! For the moment they're getting grown in the kitchen and then they'll be planted out in our back garden, I've left it a little late in the year for a few but given the UK weather I don't think I'll suffer too much from it.
- hp50g 14y ago
  Weather has been rubbish so far so you're doing the right thing. My tomatoes are about 2 inches high and on the living room window sill at the moment as I wasn't confident I could avoid last frost. Avidly watching weather reports!
Surio 14y ago
>> Chillis are a pain. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. :( Tell me about it! Neither did tomatoes, nor did Bell peppers/Capsicum, nor did those Courgettes, neither did the marrows, sugar snap peas... oh sugar! I am going to find a safe, dark place, and crawl into foetal position! >> I've been doing it for 20 years and still manage to ruin something every year! +1 Hope springs eternal. Thanks.
- hp50g 14y ago
  That usually happens the first couple of years. First year I did strawberries I got one fruit and a fucking pigeon stole it. Never give up :)
  - Surio 14y ago
    :D That one cracked me up!! Thanks for that one mate!
- PebblesRox 14y ago
  Your safe dark place sounds like a good candidate for growing mushrooms!