12 month Grow your own planting plans

nozzy6

thanks so much for your plans, they look great! Only hope I can be half as organised!

llamedos36

could i please have your plans this is only my second year and its a little overwhelming


i have pm'ed u:beer:

ALIBOBSY

Mum of 4 can I ask a couple of questions. We are part way through changing over to raised beds and creating a kitchen garden.
However just found out I am expecting baby 4 (still in shock lol), any tips for coping with little ones whilst dealing with the plot? Plus whilst pregnant.

ali x

mum_of_4

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

Mum of 4 can I ask a couple of questions. We are part way through changing over to raised beds and creating a kitchen garden.
However just found out I am expecting baby 4 (still in shock lol), any tips for coping with little ones whilst dealing with the plot? Plus whilst pregnant.

ali x

Well done!

Make the shed nice and comfy for the Mum to be. I made sure I had some ceral bars and a stash of drink cartoons for the odd day that I might forget to take supplies with me.

Make sure the plot is child friendly, I find it's much easier if they are happy letting you get on with it. My friend who's on another site has even put up a swing at the back of her plot.

Don't do too much. The last time i was expecting I was in a similar situation I was still trying to establish some sort of order to the plot. If you can get your OH to build the raised beds in the next few weeks that would really help you along. Once the beds are done it's much easier as you won't need to do any digging more a case of maintaining.

Just don't do what I did. All mine have had to arrive by c-sections so I had no idea what labour signs were. Two weeks before the due date my Oh was digging holes so I could be left to plant (my pelvis basically falls apart when expecting so by week 8 I end up on crutches) anyway that night he's moaning at me as I'm keeping him awake. I don't feel well, and with really bad back ache and what I think is a pulled musscle, from doing to much in the garden I end up tossing and turning in bed. He's still really fed up with by 12.30am and says maybe if I'm in that mush discomfort maybe something is wrong with the baby. At just after 1am in the morning I phone the hospital and I'm told to get straight to the labour suit. Husband still moaning and loading all the chiuldren in the car we head off. :eek: Well by 2.55am i was being wheeled out of theatre with a stunning baby girl. They tell me I must have been in labour for most of the day and beacuse I was active it would have helped things along.

So grow your own has not just saved us money, given me something to do it also helps with labour pain:rotfl:

ALIBOBSY

Thanks for that m of 4 when I say plot I mean my garden lol. Considering a lottie later on, but starting here at first as our garden is a reasonable size.
Won't mistake labour pains, last one was so intense (she nearly came out on the hospital corridor lol) no pain relief as wasn't time, still only around 4 pushes and out she shot rofl.
I have been lucky with pregnancies, only issue apart from the normal aches and piles (the baby mags don't go on about those:o) it is just sickness. I pretty much have sickiness all day intensely for the first 3 months, followed by feeling sick for another 2 then sudden vomiting if I am not careful to stick to small meals. In fact with DS I threw up in a posh restaurant all over the table(still cringing now) gross.
Still not sure how I will cope with 4, defo need to get growing as could really do with cutting the shopping budget even more. At least I am already a SAHM so no big drop in income, but won't be going back to work for a much longer period.
OH has dug up loads of ditches in the back for the drainage so hopefully can get that done tommorrow and we can get the first couple of beds in.

Got some of those cheap aldi fruit bushes to go in and last years 6 lidl strawberry plants have turned into 15 new plants (5 yr old was excellent at shoving the runners into the soil as we went along). Getting excited now, but just hope I can keep up with it once I get bigger, at least it is good exercise.

Also due to the main car "big end" going we are having to reduce the greenhouse/polytunnel fund :mad: so still debating what to get.
OH reckons he hasn't time to build whole thing from scratch now, he suggests one of those really cheap polycarb houses and he will make a decent base and fix it down solidly as well as adding extra bracing and sealing in the panels, so using it as a base for him to turn into something more sturdy.
Window sills full of seedlings now so off to water them to take my mind off feeling pukey.

ali x

Joyful

Thank you very much for the plan.I have passed it on to the person who is going to use my Garden to grow veggies..

beckalinha

Thank you for the plans - feeling much more inspired and will attempt (!!) to draw up my own this weekend.

perrywinkle

Thanks for emailing me the plans - looking forward to spending some time this weekend going through it all.

Rummer

Thank you for the plans, I am going to pour over them tmrw and get my own plot planned too!

nodwah

thank you very much for the plans, now I'll get my 10 year old to open the file for me