I'd like to start an organic vegetable garden but am renting so I need to be able to get rid of it when I leave here (could be in 6 months to a year). One thought has been to plant in pots so I need to know what and when to plant in pots as I don't think I can dig up their backyard (even though it's a mess of weedy grass).
Also can I plant pumpkins on a grassy sloping hill? I guess pumpkins wont require much soil preparation but that's only a guess.
I live in a coolish climate (on a mountain), in Tasmania Australia so it's Summer right now. Sunny almost every day but also windy and quite a lot of rain.
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. Even if I can just grow a few things in some pots I would be happy but I am an amatuer.
Are the grow bags 'organic' veggie friendly?
There are some really helpful answers and I don't know who to pick! Thank you 🙂
I agree – see if they'll let you do up the garden.
But if they won't, I recommend using growbags.
We're in a rented place and the garden is all concreted over so we don't even have the choice to ask. But we grew loads of courgettes, tomatoes and cucumbers last year using growbags, dwarf beans and sugarsnap peas in pots, and lettuces and spring onions in windowboxes. It was our first time, but we got great results!
For pumpkins, I'd say plant them in a growbag and just let them spread down the hill. They are quite heavy feeders, but with a growbag the soil is already prepared for you, with all the nutrients they need!
If you want to grow potatoes, use a dustbin with holes and stones in the bottom for drainage. Plant three seed potatoes about halfway down, then as they grow cover the plants up with more and more soil until you reach the top (this makes the plant put out more and more roots, thus more and more potatoes!). To harvest, just tip the whole lot out!
It doesn't have to be as scientific and complex as the answerer above describes; just go somewhere that sells seeds, choose some varieties you fancy (for best results go for those that say they're pest resistant, disease resistant or highly productive), and plant them whenever it says on the pack.
Good luck!
Sorry this isn't organic, but it will give you some ideas. My hubby and I do lots of container gardening…..even vegetables. Here is our method (USA):
Plastic pots 14 inches across the top.
Holds 25 pounds potting soil-we use Miracle-Gro Potting Soil with Plant Food for flowers (not vegetables-ask the clerk at the nursery for vegetable potting soil).
Mix water crystals into the top six inches of potting soil-these hold water so you do not have to water more than once per week when the temperatures hit 100 degrees.
Water well and leave it alone for a few days so the crystals can absorb the water. Do not plant or the swelling crystals will push your flowers up and out of the potting soil.
After a few days, mix 4 tablespoons Osmocote flower fertilizer into the top four inches of potting soil. Water in well and wait a day or so. There is also a vegetable Osmocote fertilizer. (Read and follow the directions on the container just in case your container is different from ours.)
Now you can plant. Water well.
Every 14 days fertilize with liquid fertilizer – we use Miracle-Gro Bloom Booster.
Check for a vegetable liquid fertilizer.
Stop fertilizing one month before your first autumn frost. But keep watering.
Let your flowers go to sleep after the first frost or take them indoors and place in a south facing window (sunny window).
Lightly water through the winter months, but do not fertilize.
Do not put back outside until all frost has past. We usually wait till the nights have reached 68 or 70 degrees.
Add the Osmocote fertilizer again each spring (or other good flowering fertilizer).
When flowers start failing, change the potting soil's top 1/3 or 1/2, mix in well, add new water crystals, add fertilizer. Buy new plants. This is usually done every third spring.
Hint: Always water till it runs out the bottom. Wait a few minutes and then water again. This only need to be done about once per week to ten days when using the water crystals.
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How to Grow Pumpkins (USA), click this link:
http://www.ehow.com/how_1990_grow-pumpkins.html
Happy gardening to you.
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If it were me, I would ask the owners if they mind that you clean up an area that would be used as a flower garden or a good shrub area, that would be used for, after you move out. Most home owners never turn down upgrades, I don't. If you get the ok, pick an area to the westside, that being the warmer of the four. There are 2 types of veggie growing, cool weather veg. such as lettuce, spinish, usually leafy plants. Then theres Summer veggies, peppers, tomatos, etc. Internet, Google is a great place for info, just lay out the total question for your area and results are endless!
Hope that helped you out.
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I agree – see if they'll let you do up the garden.
But if they won't, I recommend using growbags.
We're in a rented place and the garden is all concreted over so we don't even have the choice to ask. But we grew loads of courgettes, tomatoes and cucumbers last year using growbags, dwarf beans and sugarsnap peas in pots, and lettuces and spring onions in windowboxes. It was our first time, but we got great results!
For pumpkins, I'd say plant them in a growbag and just let them spread down the hill. They are quite heavy feeders, but with a growbag the soil is already prepared for you, with all the nutrients they need!
If you want to grow potatoes, use a dustbin with holes and stones in the bottom for drainage. Plant three seed potatoes about halfway down, then as they grow cover the plants up with more and more soil until you reach the top (this makes the plant put out more and more roots, thus more and more potatoes!). To harvest, just tip the whole lot out!
It doesn't have to be as scientific and complex as the answerer above describes; just go somewhere that sells seeds, choose some varieties you fancy (for best results go for those that say they're pest resistant, disease resistant or highly productive), and plant them whenever it says on the pack.
Good luck!
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preparing the organic gardening… soil, microorganism, protein, temperature … etc…more info
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