NOVICE gardener - advice please

I live in north wales on the side of a mountain. It rains a lot. We don't get much direct sunshine, even on summer days as there are lots trees around our house (not sure what next year will bring with Ash etc). I am a complete novice gardener, but would love to grow, basil, french beans, tomatoes, courgettes, chicory, lettuce. Someone said the only way to achieve this would be to grow in a greenhouse.

I would really appreciate any thoughts you might have.

Regards

Ludmilla

 

Welcome to GC, Ludmilla

I do not feel experienced enough, at this stage, to offer you advice; but I do know this is the right place to come and more experienced gardeners will be able to offer you their wisdom and thoughts.

Which aspect does your garden favour? (I mean, does it face East, West, South, or North?) Which aspect is your mountain? Which trees encompass your garden? (You mention Ash, but are there others?). The answer to these questions will depend on the quality of advice you may be given

 

Hello and welcome Ludmilla.

I think the advice you've been given about needing a greenhouse for the crops you want to grow is about right, though not strictly necessary. Certainly basil is far to soft for outdoors in my opinion. If the cold doesn't get it, then the slugs, snails and aphids will, and if they don't, then the rain and wind will just batter it down. It has to be the single softest plant I've ever known. Easy to look after indoors though on a sunny window.

I'm sure others will be along to offer advice on the other plants soon enough.

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner

Been there, done that i'm afraid.

Used to try to grow veg in Blaenau Ffesteringhog. The sun rose from behind one mountain at 10.30 & set behind the other at 2.30.

What the slugs didn't eat, the sheep would finish off as the were hurled into my garden by the sheepherds who considered gardens as "A wicked waste of grazing"

You need a polytunnel