Growing your own vegetables is easier than you may think, fun and provides a great sense of accomplishment.

With new, innovative products you don’t need anywhere near as much space as you think. Plus growing your own is something the whole family can be a part of and creates more excitement around eating your Veg!

You can grow your own herbs, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots (the list goes on) with little effort. By growing your own veg you can use what you need and they will always be fresh.

Food Fact: You can grow a lettuce in as little as 30 days!

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Tips for starting out

Sunshine.

Pick a location where your veg will receive around 6 hours of sunshine – although some leafy greens and herbs you can get away with around 4!

Pick a premium soil.

To set your veg up for success choose a premium soil if you can – it’s what nurtures them and their home. Once you’re set up you can continue to nourish and feed your veg with DIY compost (saving you money)

Choose your veg wisely.

Growing veg is exciting and it can be tempting to want to grow everything but we suggest picking 4-5 to start off with. Opt to choose veg that are delicious, nutritious and fun! Our friends at VegePod came up with a fun idea to try:

One for YUM – choose a favourite veg that you and your family love to eat.
One for DONE – pick an easy win. Veg like baby spinach, lettuce, bok choy and herbs can be grown and eaten in as little as 2 – 3 weeks. Giving you a sense of achievement and encouragement.
One for FUN – something fun and new to try.

Watering.

Do your research on how much water your veg will need. It sounds cliché but be careful not to over or under water your veg. When starting out your seedlings will appreciate some more water as the top soil may be a drier but keep an eye out to not soak them.

Start out small.

If it’s your first time growing veg you don’t want to be overwhelmed. While growing veg is extremely fun and low maintenance there is still some work that goes into it. Stick to a smaller veggie garden for the first year or two to make sure you keep it enjoyable and exciting.

Location.

Sun is important but so is creating your veg garden somewhere convenient where you will be most likely to access and use it – if possible somewhere close by to your kitchen so you can easily get fresh herbs from the garden when preparing meals.

Use seedlings.

Growing your veg from seedlings is generally cheaper, you have a wide variety to select from and they are healthy and strong straight from the start. You can sew them directly to the garden and for a novice gardener you wont run the risk of them not surviving being transplanted.

For tips on how to seed all types of specific vegetables head to our friends at VegePod here and watch the simple, easy to follow videos.
Your veggie garden will be flourishing in no time!

  Make your veg garden part of your family activities - spend quality time with your family planting, taking care of and picking your vegetables 

Start your home veg journey with the seasons

For the best chance of flourishing veg plant with the seasons.

Thanks to our friends at Vegepod you don’t need a huge backyard to grow your own veggies! Expertly designed, their raised garden beds not only make growing your vegetables easy but are convenient and look good. The Vegepod is a self-contained, self-watering raised garden bed that is designed to tackle common gardening pain points such as pests, weather, weeds and accessibility!

Growing veggies is much quicker than you think and consider all of the money you will save on your grocery bill!

  Did you know: some of the easiest veg to grow are – green lettuce, peas, green beans, radishes, carrots, cucumbers, kale beets, zucchini, tomatoes

Up your growing game

Regrow your scraps.

Place your leftover roots of celery, fennel or lettuce in a shallow bowl of water, on a sunny ledge. New shoots will start appearing and you’ll have more vegetables to cook with.

Compost at home.

Compost your leftover vegetable scraps – keep a compost bin that you can put your vegetable scraps in. These are a fabulous, free source of nutrients to make your veggie garden flourish.

enlist some wiggly friends.

Consider your own worm farm. Worm farms are fun for the family and not only reduce waste but will also make your veggie patch flourish with nutrients from their waste.