Eat Your Patio Garden
There are many edible flowers and many pretty vegetables. If you have room for a window box or a couple of pots on a patio or in a backyard, you can grow food that tastes so much better than anything shop bought. Don't let the experts put you off. All that most plants need is food, water, light and support, a bit like us, but not as fussy. Provide those basics and you can grow almost any kind of fruit or vegetable to eat and it will usually be ornamental too. Stores and garden centres love the rush of customers for early bedding and container plants, as they know the’ll be back to replace the ones that died of hypothermia after a few days outside. It happens every year without fail, so don't be in too much of a hurry. This is a good month to start with baskets and containers. They are easy. Anything that will hold plants, from old pans to designer pots, need the same treatment. If there are no holes in the bottom, make some for drainage. Plants can drown too. Put a few bits of broken brick or some pebbles in the bottom to stop the compost washing out or blocking the holes. Polystyrene pieces are good too; this keeps the weight down in heavier pots and recycles while you're at it. Use any multi-purpose compost, and during the summer keep all containers watered and fed with a general, ready to use fertiliser. You can't over water baskets and containers, if the drainage holes are kept clear. Trailing tomato plants are pretty, as well as tasty. Varieties 'Tumbling Tom', 'Hundreds and Thousands' or 'Tumbler' are specially bred for baskets. Use 1 plant in a 12" basket or 3 in a 16". Fill with compost to a couple of inches below the rim, take plants out of their pots and loosen the roots a little, place into similar-sized holes in the compost and pack more around them. Water well, to settle them in and give the roots a good start. If you add a few marigold plants it will help keep off pests and give a contrast in colour. They are edible too. Don't try it with nasturtiums, although they are edible, they attract caterpillars! Other veg easy to grow in containers are runner or climbing French beans. Five in a 10" pot, grown up a wigwam of strings attached to a 5' cane, will provide beans for several weeks, if they are picked regularly. Try a window box with seeds of mixed lettuce or salad leaf, watercress, spring onions, or mini varieties of carrots, cabbage, beetroot, turnips, radish and leeks. Sprinkle thinly on the surface and cover with ¼" of compost. Leaves will soon appear and they will provide a combination of colour and taste all summer. Potatoes are easy to grow in larger pots. Place 5" compost in the bottom, add three or four potatoes and just cover. As you see the shoots appear, add more compost to cover them, wait for them to grow, flower and die back, and you will have the best tasting potatoes ever. Experiment, we haven't found many things we grow on our allotment that can't also be grown in our back yard!
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