Veg Trug!

Now, the observant amongst you will have noticed that the title of this blog is 'Off we grow!' and yet, all I have blogged about thus far is my recent forray into poultry keeping.  You would be right in questionning what on earth the adventures of my three little chickens have to do with growing things.

You are quite right of course.  When the idea of the blog first popped into my head, I intended it to detail my own adventures in growing my own produce.  I have in the past had some success with a selection of vegetables grown mainly in pots in my back garden and thought it would be a nice idea to share some of this with you, the reader.

To this end, during my expensive, but very enjoyable trip to the Edible Garden Show, I purchased a Vegtrug.  A what?  You may cry.  These wonderful items come in different sizes, but are essentially a raised trough in which the keen veg grower, that's me, can sow and grow a variety of veg.  I found a picture to show you;

If I remember rightly, this is the size of the veg trug I myself have purchased, but they do come bigger should space and budget permit. You can also add an insect net to protect your precious produce and helpfully there is a tomato trellis available for, well, tomatos and other climbing things. One of the wonderful things about these is that they are too high for the dogs to pee on or dig up.  It will happily sit on my patio and so be away from chickens also, (if I can stop Hen Solo et al from foiling my chicken prevention methods).

Then, whilst I was looking up images to share, I found this one!

A blue one!  I hadn't even thought about the decorating possibilities!  This makes the whole project even more exciting.  

They arrive flat packed and are, according to my friend who has already assembled hers, relatively easy to put together.  The size of vegtrug I have, which is the size pictured holds around 3.5 60 litre bags of compost.  My friend is way ahead of me;

I am planning to grow tomatos, carrots, and lettuce at the mo, but will also do potatos in my pot which I managed to do before.  Given that I came to veg growing as a total novice, I was very surprised what could be achieved with relative ease.  I always thought there was something terribly difficult about growing your own stuff, some secret I had no knowledge of, but it would appear that you can grow vegetables virtually anywhere.  Pots, beds, vegetable patches big and small.  

Of course, now all I have to do is build said veg trug.  

And, there you have it, a whole blog post with virtually no mention of chickens whatsoever.