Show me your Garden

Joly_Roger

Nearly everything below is recycled: the sleepers, the bricks for the edging/ sandpit/ water feature. The wood for the window boxes (where I grow lettuce), the hardcore underneath the edging was recycled.

Many of the plants I got for free off freecycle, the water feature I got for for free, same for the kids things.
Some of the plants I bought off gumtree, all the others were in sales / special offers or just off freecycle. Even the turf was half price

Particularly pleased with the railway sleeper steps as it was too steep for my children before. Now the garden is very child friendly (apart from the arid / spiky area). :rotfl:

cath777

joly roger what a lovely garden you have created you seem to have a bit of everything in there and i love your pond area

roosterpotatoes

lolly5648 wrote: »

Roosterpotatoes: Why do you cut the head off broccoli to promote the side shoots? What does that achieve? I have planted quite a few broccoli and two are getting very big and wide - should I be doing something?

I read somewhere (cant remember where:mad:) that it reduces the likely hood of the plant bolting and the more side shoots, the more broccoli, well, thats the plan any way :rotfl: Mine are about 2 1/2 feet high and ive planted them far too closely together, as long as you dont let them flower yours will be fine :money:

roosterpotatoes

This is the picture from the site I looked at
This is what i want mine to look like,



MrBadExample, i have absolutely no idea why its growing above ground level but im not bothered because its obviously working