Our Garden Before & After

rhiwfield

Pink-numbers, you and OH should be very proud of your garden!

So often people are tempted to give up when they see an unpromising space, your garden should be an inspiration to many.

When I lived in the Barbican in the middle of London there were some people who could bring the terrace blocks alive with their wonderful window boxes, your garden reminds me of them

COOLTRIKERCHICK

there are some good ideas, even if you got a larger space...

I have a corner at the back of the house that i am going to'nick' some of the ideas for:rotfl:

I have been meaning to do something with this bit of the garden for ages...

scotsaver

How amazing are those Photos, love looking at what people have achieved, it's a great motivator for us all. Just hope the sunshine is not too far off now.:)

Primrose

Congratulations! You must be absolutely thrilled with the results.

You're obviously keen to carry on in a similar vein, and to avoid longer term disapointment with your crops, I wonder if you've thought how you're going to keep all the pots well nourished. Obviously chicken manure pellets is one option but one thing I do on a regular basis is surrupticiously dig in some of my kitchen waste into the top layer of the bigger containers while the plants are growing in them. This slowly rots down to provide nature humus and nutrition if you don't have the space for a proper compost heap. If you dig your kitchen compost in over the winter, it will be virtually rotted down by spring when you're ready to plant up again. In any case, if it's not fully rotted it won't matter much. I regularly grow the odd tomato or marrow plant in my compost cage and it quite happily grows on top of half rotted material.

good luck for this year and hope you have another fruitful season.

rabidbun

It looks lovely OP. Particularly the pots - and the beds themselves look really productive!

poshchatterbox

As everyone has said Fantatic garden,well planned and thought out --love your outside loo ,

savemoney

I wish I could get them zinc post at ikea but I aint driving 70 odd miles and ikea appear to ont ant to selll these online even though there web site shows them, why are they stuck in 1990's, Uk has one of the biggest online buisness sales of many European countries

savemoney

I made this today all from wood I had kicking around. Its one of these which are £30+

Needs sanding down and painting, the white stuff is glue and some mastic to stop water getting in any gaps


Its to hold zinc pots for herbs




Shelves were odl shelving I got years ago on freecycle and other wood got from B&Q ages ago for a job I did in garage, it will look fine when sanded, primed and painted, oh and have to get rid of resin from the knots in the wood

naturalsuperwoman

Your garden looks fantastic!

Could I ask a question - did you need planning permission to paint the walls? We have one wall in our garden that I wanted to brighten up and put a trellis on but my other half seems to think that you need planning permission to paint the walls.

boo80

Good job savemoney, I've asked OH to build me one of those, still waiting though...

Well done and thanks for sharing Pink Numbers, it looks fab.

Anyone else want to share there before and afters? I love a good nose! x x