My name is Ladyhawk, and I have a problem

TravellingAbuela

This post is making me laugh! No you are not alone ladyhawk, far from it! We re-designed the garden a couple of years ago and put down a patio for our table and chairs and loungers. With just a couple of nice potted plants for effect. Now the patio is so full of pots and tubs that there is barely room to sit amongst them! OH has tolerated it so far but this summer he has declared enough is enough and I should get rid of some. Aaaaargh!

kimmee

This thread has made me laugh out loud (thanks to all above!) - it really is a compulsion and glad I'm not alone

All my veg is being pot grown and it takes me a good 20 minutes to water that and the rest of the garden, but hey ho - keeps me out of trouble! :rotfl:

soul619

im so new at this but i have so much! poor wife has been so patient bless thinks shes just glad to keep me ocupied lol

SallyForth_2

ginnyknit wrote: »

Think we may need to start a support group -' My names Ginny and I keep planting tomato seeds and have run out of space to put them in!' or why did I plant a giant pumpkin then find out it takes 65 sq foot of land to grow????? I keep wandering round the garden pondering and then walk back in the house shaking my head :eek: Also all the seeds are germinating in about 10 minutes in this weather so now I have 10 sunflower plants and maybe 35 tomato plants that will need potting on asap. Oh well looking forward to a huge glut of food.

At least we know we are not alone:)

That's an awful lot of tomato plants, are you planning to sell some or do you just really love tomatos?

dorisday

Hi you are definately not alone!! I have a 6 x 4 greenhouse filled with 10 tomato plants and 8 pepper plants and as yet they are all about 12 ins tall but where they are going when they really start to grow!!! I also have 12 raspberries, 8 blueberries, 2 dwarf apple, 1 dwarf cherry , 1 dwarf apricot loads of lettuce, french beens, broad beans, mange tout, spinach, carrots, potatoes, and 5 tubs of herbs of various kinds, and mustnt forget 4 large tubs of potatoes. and there is just ME:eek:

All of this plus a 8 x 6 shed in a very very small back garden and I mean small. Oh mustnt forget the table and 2 chairs I have on order.:)

midnightraven3

i thought everyone knew that as soon as you take up gardening, you have to loose something in order for all this new knowledge to sink in
and what every single gardener looses, is concept of space:D

1st year everything is more or less ok
2nd year tubs planters & boxes creep in
3rd year grass is no longer viewed as an acceptable or useful thing to grow
4th year you grow down the way as well as up the way
5th year you can no longer paint your fence as it would take weeks to take down and replace the boxes

this is my 6th year in this house, and i am too ashamed to say what i have done this year:rotfl:

dorisday

forgot to add instead of going out socialising I garden instead:eek: Already saved myself £6 - not having to buy any lettuce just another £977 to go before I break even.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

spider125

I thought it was only me with a compulsion, I have now run out of room in greenhouse and patio!!!! I cut down my ornamental conifer tree to make room, I have now got tomatoe plants in my front porch, abundance of lettuce and my courgettes look like triffids? large lawn but i am thinking will he let me loose on that.....i think not!!!

EmptyPockets

This thread has made me giggle... and realise that DH and I are exactly the same. There is only the two of us, yet for some reason (a moment of madness) we have:

28 Iceburg Lettuce, which will all be ready at the same time.
10 Tomato plants, and only I eat tomatoes
20 French Beans
God-knows-how-many Peas
Trays and trays of Rocket and Cabbage
And about a zillion herb plants that desperately need thinning out as they're in pots...

There's a lot more but I'd be typing all day.

And there never seems to be enough hours in a day to sort them all out

I think, because this is the first time in 10 years that we've had our own proper garden to enjoy, we've gone a bit mad. We did do some veg last year, but it was all container grown, so we had a certain space limit and that was it!

xMonsoonx

You can preserve some of the fruits, for instance I grow loads of tomatoes and herbs in my garden, as the tomatoes ripen I pick them and crush them and cook them up with fresh basil and chives and a splash of cider vinegar and put it in old clean jam jars while warm (they seal themselves shut as they cool) and then all through winter you have a lush sauce to use for pasta or mince and you know there is no nasties in it.

Chillies can be dried or pickled and berry's can be frozen or dried.

I just save good jars and lids throughout the year.