Mixed bed carrot & cabbage
One of the most satisfying garden pursuits has to be raising a vegetable from a seed right through to picking the finished product from your garden.
The most rewarding vegetables in this regard tend to be the larger seeded types that can be sown directly into their final position in the garden. Five of the best are as follows:
- Pumpkin
- Sweet corn
- Melons
- Peas
- Beans
Simply prepare the soil by digging in a 5cm layer of well-rotted manure and sow 2 or 3 seeds in each hole. When they come up thin out the seedlings to leave only the healthiest plant in each hole.
Mulch around the plant and in the case of peas a climbing support needs to be provided.
Right: Mixed bed of seedlings. Left: Mixed bed lettuce & fennel
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