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Hi Steve and Welcome to the site... ;D
Now is a great time to start...fast returns are all "rabbit" food eg salads, lettuce, radish spring onions...
In terms of starters though grab some onion sets from somewhere and bung them in... and some seed potatoes. If the spuds are described as earlies you will get them by the end of July at the latest, onions straight after into August and Beans about the same time, runners and French but you can't start them yet... still too cold.
A raised bed is a good idea for the fancier stuff like French beans but onion sets and spuds will cope with all but pipe clay. If it is that bad cover it with a layer of topsoil/manure and plant into that...
also, something with a quick return and not something that won't be ready until, say, November -
What's up with the youngsters of today? Can you not even plan to eat in 6 months time?
Ok...Another dumb question (well - two actually)...Was listening to Gardener's Question Time on R4 recently (at least I think it was that - could have been some other R4 programme) and it was suggested to buy, say, lettuce, etc., that had already been started - i.e. in pots - rather than from seeds. If I remember correctly, it was to answer a numpty like me about getting started. It made sense to me. How does it strike the more experienced here?Also, I was listening to another programme some weeks ago (again R4). It was at some potato growers convention and they were talking about spuds, etc., and some grower there said that it is so easy to grow your own spuds ... just grab any sprouting taters and chuck 'em in a bucket of compost and they'll grow into nice, fresh spuds! Assuming that to be true, could I just chuck a bag of sprouting greengrocer-bought King Edwards into the soil and get a crop? I have a cupboard full of them!Or have I just revealed the depth of my numptiness?!! :-\Cheers,Steve
Have you told the council that there are several unused and overgrown? Ask them why and of they say it's been winter tell them you live opposite and they've not been worked for years, push!!