Start Your Own Vegetable Garden at Your Student House in Southampton

Do you like VEgetables? Does your mom insist to you eat? Yeap. Your mom is right. Vegetables are good for your health and for your pocket. Then how can you make your own Vegetable garden? Let’s check the ways. Create a vegetable garden you can improve your physical and mental health. Create in you a responsibility sense. And obviously, you can have good food on your table. And the best, without pesticides. Because you don’t produce in large scale. The vegetables have several processes and events before you reap. Some of them you have the seeds and others you have to take a little piece from another plant. Do you know what are the benefits of a house vegetable garden? They give you a portion of healthy food, therapy for your mind, help you to save money, help with nutrition education, and give decor for your home.

Calendar

You have to stay alert for the calendar. Some vegetables need to be sowed in the autumn and others during the summer. You can check what vegetables you like before plant. Then check the best days to seed. you can choose the best time during the day to plant.

Soil

You can find the soil to plant your seed in specific stores. Some of them have already come prepared for your plant. Others you have to prepare. When you have to prepare the soil you will need some compost or organic matter. Then you must clean the soil with the rake and level it. The composts that you can find is Peat free, Mushroom, Organic, and multi-purpose. But You can make your own compost with kitchen scraps, leaves, peels. Putting them on the corner of your garden. Wait to dry and place under the leaves of the vegetables.

Seeds or plants

Some vegetables or fruits need much time to grow up and produce. Then you have the option to solve this. Instead, you buy the seeds, you can buy the plant in a little pot and transfer it to your garden. The fruits are the main plants that need a long time to produce. But you have some of them that produce fast like Strawberries, Japanese wineberries.

Fertilizer

You have many options for fertilizers. Liquid and solids. And you should stay alert for the fertilizer that you are allowed to use in the UK. Here is the security fertilizer you can buy. Ammonium Nitrate (AN), Nitram®, and True Granular Compound fertilizers. Or produce your own fertilizer with food and vegetables and fruits peels.

Water

You know water is life, don’t you? Then for the plants is the main ingredient to grown health and give more fruits and vegetables. But you have to study how much water you must run in each plant. Some of them don’t need much water. Prefer to water the plants with the watering can instead of the garden hose. Some plants are so delicate.

Specific place

Some vegetables and fruits have a specif place to plant. If you take the lettuce for example the sun can make them wither. Then you can use a net to cover it. Other plants need a small space to grow up and you can use a little pot. Like the Basil. In the garden stores, you can find specific planters or pots for the potatoes for example.

Fence

If your  Southampton student accommodation is a house outside the campus maybe you have a big yard. Then you can start your garden. Take some fences and make a little space to make your beautiful vegetable garden.

In the houses

If you choose a Southampton student accommodation that has a big yard, you can make a great vegetable garden. The options for a big garden are numerous. Horizontal garden, vertical garden. A little space separated by a fence. Or a lot of planters around the yard.

In the flat

If you live in flats don’t worry you can make some gardens too. But not much. You can take little pots and plant some herbs. These kinds of plants you can add to your food and decorate the kitchen. ordecorste  your bedroom. If you have a little space on the window you can buy a planter and plant strawberries. Or you can talk with the staff of the Studyhome to get permission.

Specific stores

For the supplies to make your own vegetable garden in a student house in Southampton you can find a lot of stores that have good stuff to use and plant. A lot of then you can buy online and ask for delivery. You can find some of them at the Supermarket too.

Tools

Do you know what is the tools that you will need to start your garden? Here are some of them: ruler, tape measure, wheelbarrow, hoe, mattock, shovel, pitchfork, rake, compressor, bamboo bedclothes, Biodegradable netting, butterfly protection cage, planting trowel, white labels, seeder, handle tiller, Gloves, Watering can, pruning shear, twine, and level. In some gardens, you need specific places to plant. Then you can make or buy.

After you decide what you will plant, where you will plant, and read about all the things you need you can start to organize the supplies and start your garden. Start with that plant that doesn’t need a lot of care. Remember you have to organize your time to make it. you have to prepare the space and buy the tools first. If you don’t do it you can take a risk of don’t have some stuff and forget the garden. Some student houses in Southampton have a space to make your garden. If you are a person that likes to do it. Think about it when you are searching for a studyhome. Your roommate can help you too. Then you all can eat healthy food at the University. Be a healthy person take a little care with yourself. Remember you have to work, study, but you can’t forget your own health and life. If you are sick you can’t work or study. Then take care and be a green person.