All About Growing Food

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Growing Tasty and Fresh Food

Are you growing fruit, vegetables or herbs that you intend to eat? Do you have a passion for the freshest fruit, herbs or veg - or just growing to try and save money? Perhaps pottering around the home grown edible plants is enough reward in itself for you.

This is a place to to find or share great tips for finding seeds, getting plants to grow better, composting, organic pest control, ways to cook from a garden and inspiration to get growing.

Some of us love to eat our own fruit. Think of it - never been canned, frozen, cooled, packed, transported. You have picked it right off the vine, stalk or whatever and can eat it yourself.

You know how organic it is or not - for real, you know which soil you have used, how much sunlight it has, and probably have a good idea of the variety. You know or are learning what conditions make it sweeter or more pungent.

Nothing quite seems quite as satisfactory as food you have grown yourself, it inspires pride and tastes good (usually).

This group is for you. Share your experiences - be they success or failure. We can all learn to be better food growers. Perhaps one day there will be a Squidoo food growers market!

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Fruit

Fruit that has come straight from the garden or orchard is one of life's great joys. They also make for some very colourful plants.
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Strawberries

While Tomatoes are popular for veg growers (although they are technically fruit too!), strawberries are popular for fruit growers. And also they are one of my favourite foods.
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Growing Vegetables

Thinking about growing your own vegetables? Try these for some great tips on them.
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Growing Tomatoes

Tomatoes are particular popular among food growers, including the Groupmaster. So much so that they need their own section.
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Upside down tomatoes

These tomato planters are also a popular topic right now.
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Other Edible Plants

There are plants you may not have thought of as edible but are, and as well as nutritious and free, are also quite tasty.
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Build Stuff For your plants

Building your own gear can get you better results and save you money. These How to lenses will help you build it.
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Finding Seeds To Plant

An important topic for gardeners. Where do you get seeds? How do you guarantee the cultivars you want?
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Do you swap seeds?

Seeds are the lifeblood of a food grower. You may keep the seeds from your last crop, grab them from supermarket veg, buy them in a DIY/garden store or even get them given to you for free.

Have you ever considered seed swapping? Where you have some veg/herbs, a friend or neighbour has some others, swapping seeds means you get more variety and choice for less.

This weeks poll - have you swapped seeds, or will you consider it?

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Anything else to say on swapping seeds?

Perhaps you have more to say on the subject. What are your seed swapping experiences? If you have a lens or site on seed swapping, drop us a line!
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Dont forget the herbs and greens

Just because fruit and veg get the limelight, it does not mean they are the only edible food.

Do not forget that humble mint is a superb condiment, especially minced with vinegar. I also love pea tops, they make a great soup.

Do you have other stuff you grow that you eat?
Also - recipes from your own garden make for good lenses to add to this group!

Featured Herb and Spice Growing Lenses

Our great lenses on growing herbs and spices.
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Nuts And Edible Seeds

Another favourite to eat are nuts and seeds - the seeds you eat more than grow.
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Fungi

Fungi are the darker, damper side of food growing. There are many interesting flavours to be had, but make sure you know exactly what you are doing as the wrong ones are deadly!
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Pest Control

Pests will always be a major problem faced by many gardeners. Preventing them, or dealing with them, especially when talking food and trying to keep it organic, is a very important topic.
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Sustainable Gardening

Gardens may look green, but how environmentally friendly are they?
How are you able to keep gardening during the difficult financial times?
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Getting Good Soil

Good soil is key to a garden, especially if you are going organic.
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Top Vegetable Seeds

Buy some seeds for your favourite vegetables - and get yourself a gardening patch started.

PLUS PACK - 8000+ Seeds-Carrot Danvers Half Long-Veggie

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Carrot - Danvers Half Long! Description: Very sweet more...0 points

Straight Eight Cucumber 400 Seeds - Plus Pack Savings!

Straight Eight Cucumber 400 Seeds - Plus Pack Savings!

Straight Eight Cucumber Cucumis sativus 8 in. more...0 points

Organic Mesclun Salad Mix 600 Seeds - Harvest Daily!

Organic Mesclun Salad Mix 600 Seeds - Harvest Daily!

Unusual greens (Arugula, Osaka Purple Mustard Gree more...0 points

Sugar Snap Peas 125+ Seeds -Super Sweet - Plus Pack

Sugar Snap Peas 125+ Seeds -Super Sweet - Plus Pack

Representing a new generation of garden peas, Suga more...0 points

Blue Lake Pole Bean - 100+ Seeds - PLUS PACK SAVINGS

Blue Lake Pole Bean - 100+ Seeds - PLUS PACK SAVINGS

Extra Early Pods are Stringless and Fiberless! White more...0 points

Featured Growing Techniques Lenses

When you are planning a garden, or wanting to get the best of it, these should help a little.
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Tools

Things to make your life as a gardener/food grower easier.
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Gardening At Scale

How can we continue to provide food for everyone? So much food needs to be transported into cities and in some other places there is just not enough food full stop.
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Group Discussion

What are you growing at the moment? Do you have a food question for the group - a few growing pains perhaps?



If you love this group - please vote for it at the Isle of Squid

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ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...

You have an awesome collection of gardening lenses.
5*, favored and lensrolled to The Squidoo Garden Plexography

ReplyPosted February 10, 2010

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bethd821 wrote...

Great lens about growing food. I love to garden. 5* fav, blessed by a SquidAngel

ReplyPosted February 07, 2010

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ClassyGals wrote...

Hi Danny! Great lens on growing food. Thanks for featuring my how to grow vegetables indoors lens. Five stars and favored.

ReplyPosted December 13, 2009

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ClassyGals wrote...

Hi Danny! Great lens on growing food. Thanks for featuring my how to grow vegetables indoors lens. Five stars and favored.

ReplyPosted December 13, 2009

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Indoor_Jungle wrote...

I am growing sage and herbs (indoors, of course!). Also, my mom has what seems like 1,000,000 house plants.

ReplyPosted May 11, 2009

 
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Do you keep records on your patch?

All of us grow things in our own unique kind of way. Indoors, outdoors, containers, raised beds, watering regimes (or gadgets) and so on.
If you are anything like me, you probably have experiments, and control plants so you can figure out what things work better. So my question is do you keep records on your plants?

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Record keeping discussion

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Gardening Book Buying Guides

These all suggest books to buy which will help your gardening techniques. There is plenty of free info in the lenses and links above, but if you need it all in one place, then try these.
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Recipes

These recipes fully support the idea of bringing things straight from the garden, to the kitchen and to your plates or mugs.
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Growing Vegetables/food
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