Student with garden needs help!

hey all,

im a new member here but have joined to get some serious help. i live in edinburgh as a student and have reasonably sized garden which rarely gets much sun due to the weather.

i want to create some sort of edible garden within the 9 months i have here.

can anyone help me with what i should be planting and doing? i want to create a blog about my experience so help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

studentgrowingherbs

 

Good luck with your project sgh.

I think you'll struggle to get a good productive setup within 9 months from now. Almost all plants will be getting ready for bed by now.

Are you planning to grow from seed, or buy established plants?

If you are going to buy plants, if your garden is reasonably sheltered, from experience I think you'll be fine with Rosemary, Common Sage (but not the less hardy sages), which will survive outside (in a sheltered spot) and might still put on a bit of new growth this year. Then they'll sort of do nothing over winter, until spring when they get going again. They're both evergreen, so at the very least will look nice while everything else looks dead.

Sorry, I can't think of anything else edible that I'd plant at this time of year, but I'm sure there must be some more examples.

 

Thanks for your responses, really appreciate it. I see now that I could be late to be planting anything serious butsurely there must be someswqthing I can do! it sounds as though planting from seed would be difficult. does it require to be indoor because obwouod like to have some sort of herbs of chilies because I am a very enthusiastic cooktoo.

more advice please! thank you

 

I may be wrong (please correct me if that's the case!) but I believe you can grow plenty of herbs and chillis inside - in fact, I'll be bringing most of my outdoor herbs inside over the winter.

I have basil on my windowsill currently which I grew from seed. It's not difficult at all, just literally....plant the seed :D No idea how difficult this is to do with other herbs but it might be worth a try, the seeds are cheap.

I've also had some great luck with bought chilli plants this year, but it may be too late to find them in the shops (I got mine from the sale section at the end of August). I don't see why they wouldn't be ok inside but they'll just about be done flowering for this year, and unless you put them outside to get pollinated next year you won't get any fruit then either.