12 month Grow your own planting plans

Yategirl

actually.. looking at the KM link.. the growbags are spaced out... hence Lotus-eater's suggestion.... mmhhh.... my thought might not work........

mum_of_4

Yategirl wrote: »

Mum to 4 - what about trying to split the frame into 2 sections (top and bottom) and having 2 growbags on each section? At the end of the day.. you will only know if it works by trying - as long as you are prepared to move growbags/plants if it doesn't work then all will work out!

I have several strawberry plants in a plastic tub with no drainholes - was a desperate measure as at the time I had nowhere to plant them. I water sparingly but make sure they have enough iyswim and those plants are thriving!!

I think the problem is the distance between the shelf brackets. It looks like to get looking like the one in the picture I would remove the bottom and third shelf.

I will keep fiddling with it. If i can plant 10 plants to a grow bag then that'll be 20 plants and say 3 hanging baskets with 3 plants in each and my donated planter which would hold about 10 - 15 plants I could easliy reduce my patch outside.

Now i just need to find out if i can grow strawberries in the polytunnel year after year or if you need new stock and if it's the later I won't be doing it.

If I can then great because I'll get them about 4 weeks earlier and 4 - 6 later.

Yategirl

i have it in my head that you replace plants every 3 years - you take runners in year 2 to grow on to replace the plants in year 3 (or end of year 3) so yes you replace but you can do it cheaper as you won't have to keep re-buying..

irishwexford

Thank you for sending emails of plans. I am unable to open these attachments possibly because I had to remove Office from my system because of fault. I have WordPad only now. Oh well, nothing I can do. I appreciate the time you are spending on all this as Im sure we all are. Thanks for trying. Back to the drawing board. We had a good crop from our first year of allotment but had to put everything in quickly, for next year I really want a good plan, OH not too bothered about this but I have to have a system so I can use all the space and also get stuff growing in mini greenhouses in time.We are digging parsnips and carrots, have plenty of potatoes in garage and runner beans in freezer and have a crop of savoy caggages growing well. Forgotton what buying veggies is like. :T

mum_of_4

irishwexford wrote: »

Thank you for sending emails of plans. I am unable to open these attachments possibly because I had to remove Office from my system because of fault. I have WordPad only now. Oh well, nothing I can do. I appreciate the time you are spending on all this as Im sure we all are. Thanks for trying. Back to the drawing board. We had a good crop from our first year of allotment but had to put everything in quickly, for next year I really want a good plan, OH not too bothered about this but I have to have a system so I can use all the space and also get stuff growing in mini greenhouses in time.We are digging parsnips and carrots, have plenty of potatoes in garage and runner beans in freezer and have a crop of savoy caggages growing well. Forgotton what buying veggies is like. :T

Oh no not having much luck then.

Well i'm off to B&Q and then the plot for a few hours but what I'll do next is list what I have planted when and what can be follow using the same bed, in text. We haven't got ink in the printer until the weekend but I could print it out for you.

What is word pad would I have it on my pc?

alreadybroke

Hi irishwexford

just read your post re plan.

If you go here

www.OpenOffice.org-Suite.com

you can download the complete office suite for free (I had to do this as I dont use MS office either(lol).
The complete plan opens in the openoffice spreadsheet program straight away
Rich

bethsdad

Thanks for the plans Mumof4!

dawkins

Thanks very much for sending the plan through this morning - it's much appreciated!

C_J

Thanks very much for the plans - very useful indeed

Tashja

Please can someone PM me the plans

Thank you

T xx