Hello, hello!!

[Claripup]

Hi,

I'm very new to this whole self sufficient thing... but have wanted to do since I was a kid (my mum was a fan of the Good Life so I blame her )

So... I'm looking to grow at least some of my own veg this year, and forage for berries etc and I am a keen jam/preserve maker anyway. But what should I grow when? I have some very sad looking rhubarb in a pot (recently 'borrowed' from my mum) and some salad leaves growing on a windowsill... what else should I have potatoes, tomatoes, any other veg???

I am reading the forum like mad trying to catch up on all the things I need to know.

Oh and I'm in the UK and have a bomb site for a garden, complete with 2 bushes that have been completely cut down but never dug out and now take up most of the flower (weed!) bed just with their roots! I do have a very pretty cherry tree tho, which I'm hoping to get some fruit from, unless the birds get there first of course :)

Anyways, Hi *waves* I'm new

Clari

[becks77]

Hello there

[MuddyWitch]

Welcome to ISH

MW

[red]

welcome

[Millymollymandy]

Hello and welcome!

[sheena]

Hello and welcome to ish

[thesunflowergal]

Hi Clari

Lots of veg seeds need to be sown now. This week I have planted spring onions, lettuce, spinach, carrots, rocket and pots straight outside. A few weeks ago I started some other things inside to started off, I don't have a greenhouse so put them on my window sil. These were basil, toms, butternut squash, cucumbers, chillis, more lettuce. I am sure that I have sown more than this but I can't remember lol.
Have a look in your local pound shop for fruit bushes. I bought raspberry, gooseberry, redcurrants and blueberrys all that where a pound each.

Hope that helps a bit.

Nikki

[Claripup]

Thanks all for the welcome, today we have splurged a bit on a gooseberry bush and a raspberry bush (which is just for me as SO & LO don't like raspberries!) not to mention the seeds we bought!! I have lettuce on the go (still waiting for the first shoots) and hopefully I'll get the onion, brocolli & cucumber seeds in tomorrow or monday.

I'm hoping everyone here will help me fix my failures as they happen... I'm also gonna try wine making as soon as the elder flowers appear.

Anyways, it' nice to find somewhere so welcoming to help with the learning curve :)

Clari