Hi Everyone!
With so many newbies starting to grow their own veggies this year, thanks to COVID, there's a lot of people that could benefit from hearing your veggie gardening tips and tricks!
What's your favourite veggie gardening hack? Post it below to share with everyone!
We run an Instagram Page where we post lots of tips on growing all sorts of fruit and veggies. Head over & give us a follow if you're interested
@homegrownharvests 
Here's 10 of our general tips & tricks to start things off!
1. Always include flowers in your veggie garden to attract pollinators such as bees.
2. Save your kitchen scraps and start a compost heap. This can be used to improve your soil and get better yields out of your plants.
3. Don't plant everything all at once, grow in successions so there is always new produce ripening and it's not all ready at once.
4. Putting beer into a small dish and placing it in the garden is a great way to attract and kill slugs that would otherwise eat your veggies.
5. Using mulch or straw around the base of your veggies will stop the soil drying out as fast and reduce the amount of watering required.
6. Save space by growing plants like peas and beans vertically on a trellis, then you can plant leafy greens underneath.
7. If you see diseased or pest infested foliage on your plants remove it from the garden completely & be sure not to compost it!
8. When planting make sure you leave enough space between each plant, this will ensure they get enough nutrients from the soil to grow to a large size and produce a bumper crop.
9. Don't water too much! If your soil is still damp hold of watering from another day. Over-watering can be just as bad as under-watering.
10. If it doesn't work, try again! Gardening is always about trial and error. You'll never always get it right & that's ok
DID YOU KNOW - Cabbage plants can produce more than one cabbage in a single season? When you harvest the cabbage cut it off using a sharp knife leaving the bottom few leaves on the plant and it will shoot and re-grow a new cabbage. Images for proof!
