Hi All..
I wonder if anyone can offer a complete novice to grow your own some advice?
I have a large garden with an L shaped plot that is 22ft at its longest & 14ft widest. The smallest point is probably about 10ft x 4ft. As you can see by the (hopefully it worked!) photo, I have a lovely selection of weeds, along with a few winter onions, a couple of cabbages, 3 rasberry plants & a rhubarb in the corner. You will also see that I have tried to supress the weeds by using carpet & underlay. This seems to have worked on the whole, theres a few weeds around the edges, but underneath looks ok. I wont deny, i'm trying to avoid digging due to a dodgy back. So my 1st question is, what do i do next!?
In trying to avoid the digging, I wonder whether a rotovator or tiller would do the job, or am I going to have to get on my hands & knees to get weeds out regardless?
I have access to plenty of manure as well as keeping a few chucks & ducks, so have access to that (their waste!) as well. Do I need to dig that in? Or again, will the rotovator do it? Do I need to avoid putting it down where I intend to seed (Peas carrots)
What I intend to grow is potatos (seed, 2nd earlies) peas & carrots from seed, as well as 3 sweetcorn plants which i have started in the conservatory. Toms & cucumbers will be in the greenhouse along with the chillis & courgettes will be in pots. Its the growing outside that I am clueless with, I had a fair bit of success in my greenhouse last year, my first attempt at growing anything, and want to crossover to outdoor growing, but I am so daunted I keep putting it off!
Any basic help would be much appreciated, feel free to fire off any questions that may help you to help me!
PS. I know that I have left it a bit late in the year, but as you can see by this pic, the plot is at the very end of my very long garden, the rest of it isn't in such a state, honest! I'm lucky that it has cherry trees, a damson tree and a plum tree which is the Warwickshire drooper apparantly!