The other day I was talking to Fairy Princess Rosie and she was explaining to me how her human plants vegetables in England.  I found it to be so interesting that I asked her if she would do a write up so I could post it in Mystical Magickal Fairy Garden.

**Drum roll please**

Growing fruit and veggies

By: Fairy Princess Rosie

 

Don't have a big Garden? No extra space for fruit and vegetables?

No problem- Try growing your vegetables and fruit in bags or containers, I promise it does work!! So you would love some home grown potatoes but no room, try this idea - get yourself a large carrier (plastic) bag like you find in supermarkets, put in some good composted soil and add a layer of seed potatoes, keep on layering when full tie up the bag handles, make several large holes in the bag for the shoots to come out.  Hang the bag on a hook from your fence or deck and when it time to water the plants take down from hook, open the bag, water and tie the bag together again. The holes will allow for plenty of drainage.   You can also try this with carrots and other root veggies.

Tomatoes

Using the same type of bag; this time make holes in one side then fill  with compost, water and tie up , lay it down with the drainage holes underneath and slit right across the length of bag, pop in a couple of tomato plants and, stake for support.  You can lay the bag flat on gravel for extra drainage. Peas, beans and other frame plants can be grown in the same way. It is a good way of containing that mint too-mint will take over your garden if you do not contain it.

Lettuce

Lovely crisp home grown lettuce is easy with a large sink washing up bowl, just make some holes in the bottom add a little gravel for drainage, fill with your compost and place your baby lettuce or seeds in. It is easy to divide the lettuce as it grows, just place the extra in another bowl. This is also a great way of growing a small herb patch. It is very low maintenance and you can just grow what you need.  This is also a great idea to do theme herbal gardening.  As an example, you can plant an Italian herbal patch by planting oregano, curly leaf parsley, flat leaf parsley, and basil just to mention a few.

Experiment and see what you can achieve with some imagination, you can of course use those pre made growing bags, instead of the plastic carrier.  The whole idea is to use what space you do have and grow things that you would love to grow.  If you are new to gardening, this is perfect to try.  All it is going to cost is a pack of seed, a small bag of compost and some tender loving care!!