Grow your own vegetables - even if it's only one plant.
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Growing your own vegetables is healthy, satisfying and cheaper than buying from the shops. You can do it with limited space - even a tiny home crop will save you some cash.
Use your space wisely - Concentrate on crops that are easy, generous performers. Unless you have a lot of space, avoid crops that are slow to grow / give a low yield for the space they occupy e.g. cabbages, potatoes & parsnips.
The mix should be something like: * Staples : Veg you buy every week and eat almost every day, 60-70 per cent. * Regulars : Things you buy every week, and eat two or three times during the seven days, 30 per cent. * Occasionals : The things you buy every couple of weeks – keep on buying.
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I've grown some vegetable for a while. Tomatos, squashes, herbs, chives, scallions, mitsuba, etc.
i'm going to start a little potted plant in my little apartment! any suggestions for plants that can sustain being grown indoors??
Hey Jaime - Peppers definitely count. I've got loads growing right now..
I grow peppers, does that counts?
Raised beds - I only finished these a couple of weeks ago. My composter is in the background.
Pumpkins growing like mad
Chillies and tumbler tomatoes growing in wall planters.
I started growing some of my own veg earlier this year. I began with chilli plants and have expanded to tomatoes, sweet peppers, pumpkins, courgettes, salad leaves, spinach beet, regular beetroot, spring onions, radishes, aubergines and.. ..er.. ..some other stuff.
The first 2 tomato plants started cropping about a fortnight ago and I have another 10 plants. I won't be buying tomatoes from the shops until September or October and I'm sure I'll have an excess crop.