Getting Started

Welcome to the Quickcrop website. Our aim is to make it as easy as possible for you to grow your own vegetables successfully. Some people will want to do all the work themselves & others will want “an instant vegetable garden”. We offer options for all levels & pride ourselves in not just getting you started but hand holding you through the exciting process (for starters you will receive our monthly “what to do for the month newsletter”.)
Before we start lets go back to the beginning.

Why Grow your Own –

Guaranteed High Quality Food –
You can’t get fresher than growing your own. When you pick a bunch of spinach, walk to the kitchen & put it in a pot. You know 100% that nothing has been sprayed on it to keep it fresh & none of its nutrients have been lost as you are cooking it within an hour of picking. (Spinach looses 70% of its nutrients within 24 hours of being picked). Somehow it also tastes so much better.

Satisfaction -    The feeling of bringing your own produce in to the kitchen is incomparable. I still get a major rush from it 10 years after I first started.

Healthy Lifestyle -  The combination of the physical activity of digging & working in the garden with the fact that you are eating much healthier food, leads to a healthier lifestyle.

Taste -    The reality is the supermarkets have managed to take the taste out of our food. Taste a carrot or tomato from your own garden & instantly tastes from when you were a child will flood back.

Environment -    When you pick that carrot or parsnip from your garden & walk to the kitchen with it you have not only saved a serious amount of food miles you have also saved on all the packaging & reduced the amount of insecticides which destroy insect life etc.

Seasonality -    Get back to the way food should be eaten & appreciated. When you only get to eat Broccoli during the 4 months of the year that it is ready in the garden it once again becomes a real treat & something to look forward to. Instead of just an add on Vegetable any time of the year flown in from Peru.

Save Money -    You will be pleasantly surprised at how much you can save. Particularily on salads/herbs/beans etc. We pick our own salad from the garden 4 times a week for 5 months of the year form a small patch of cut & come again salads & herbs. I haven’t done the calculation but at €4 for a bag of salad leaves (drenched in chlorine) I must be saving a small fortune.

Now that you are motivated to “Grow your own” its time to decide what
level you would like to get in at.

At Quickcrop we have broken it in to 4 areas to make it easier for you.

Installed & Maintained Gardens

At Quickcrop we have a range of raised vegetable gardens that we install in your garden. We visit your garden, choose the most suitable site, assemble your raised beds, fill them with a special vegetable soil mix, plant them with young vegetables & return to tend them in midsummer.        Click for link.

Instant Vegetable Garden

We supply you with an easily assembled 3ft x 3ft x 7” high raised bed along with 2 bags of expandable compost mix & seeds for planting. You do the rest helped along by our fool proof instructions & monthly growing guides.

Flatpacked Units

We supply you with easy to assemble raised beds of various heights & sizes, delivered to your door. You put your unit together. Fill it with soil, & then plant from seed or seedlings (young vegetable plants in trays) supplied by Quickcrop.  Click for link.
You can even design the layout of your new vegetable plot using our garden design software  Click for link.

Young Vegetable Plants Direct

If you already grow your own or want to start & have done all the digging & preparing of the site. Our new “Young Vegetable Plant” supply business will allow you get ahead of the season & improve your success rate. We will deliver a tray of plants to your home in April/May. You simple plant them in to your    pre-prepared ground.  Click for link.

Advantages

Beat the slugs -    they love seedlings just popping their head out of the ground so you can avoid loosing your crop overnight.
No thinning out or spacing – as the plants have already been thinned. All you have to do is plant them in their final location.
Beat the Season – now the soil has finally warmed up you are planting 6 week old plants where normally you would just be planting seeds. This avoids failure rates & means you get earlier & bigger returns.
No mistake with weeds – a lot of people when weeding their beds mistakingly take out some of their seedlings as they can look like weeds. Putting in semi mature seedlings avoids these problems.