lg cottage garden challenge for single mum help!

dizziblonde

esmf73 wrote: »

Single Mum - where are you in the country? Some places have freecycle for plants - just join the group. Go to local fetes / school fares / jumble sales etc - as you may find plants for sale. For any extra plants / equipment - why not ask the local agricultural college? Sure they must have things that they will find that they don't need at the end of term.

Perhaps speak to your neighbours and see if they have any spare plants - and look on childrens TV website - like CBeebies, CBBC and CITV to see if there are any gardening programs which are giving away free seeds to children. Look on gardening magazine sites to see if they are giving away any freebies. Best of luck xx

Our local scout group grow plants to order (bit late for this year but worth thinking about for next) - they put an order form through all the doors with what they're going to have available and grow it all up from seed and you collect it on the given date... my mum's comment when she saw it was "cor they're cheap"

Rummer

What a fabulous space you have to work with! I would certainly sit with paper and pencil and have a good doodle/daydream about what you would like your garden to look like long term and then divide the work up into annual tasks so you are not over faced. That is the approach we have taken to our garden and it is much, much, much smaller than yours!

hollydays

singlemum_to_3 wrote: »

well its eather this .. or a man! and i love gardening he he

all ideas welcome , log piles being built this weekind and sunflower seeds going in, i will take a few pickies of the plants my mum gave me maybe some one could tell me what a few of them are as i dont know,
feeling frustrated as i kneed to do lots of sewing today to earn some money...whould prefer to be outside

The small flowers are varieties of primula (primroses),in the pot is bellis daisies (biennial) and Lavender (perrenial).The white daisies,not sure,

singlemum_to_3

morning all just having a cupa and planing the day....planted three more plants yesteday evening i know one are lupins the others im just waiting for them to grow a bit more, i have some rubarb to plant , i sewed them last year and now have about 12 plants.....i do love rubarb crumble,there are two more unidentified plants in pots from last year:o
then some grass cutting this evening ,

i only have my DS15 at home this weekend as the other two are at there dads from tonight till sunday,so plenty of time after work tomorow and sunday for a spot of gardening....i might even sew a few seeds:rotfl:will post more pickys over the weeekend of bed 1 and the log pile when its built,just thinking about the birds..we have lots of crows and a few black birds must get out my book to see what the others are......imight turn into a twit/twicher whatever they call birdwatchers:laugh:
of to chase boys for school

have a good day one and all

LilacPixie

oooo cracking bit of land.. Do you know anyone with strawberry plants that could donate a few runners to you??

Curlytop40

Netto had flower and veg seeds for 19p. The ones I've planted so far have come up well.

Rummer

If you shop at tesco they have a gardening offers linked to their clubcard points, I have got a few of them this year.

point3

Don't try and do too much at once.
Set aside an area for composting - you'll need it when you begin clearing.
Decide on an area for your vegetable garden and try potatoes for your first patch - it's usually recommended 'cos they require little maintenance and help to break up the soil.
I recommend a Chillington hoe for digging or Amazon do a cheaper copy:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverline-GT52-Digging-Hoe/dp/B000LFXV2I

Rummer

point3 wrote: »

Set aside an area for composting - you'll need it when you begin clearing.

This is important to get done early as it takes a while for the compost to be garden ready. Since you have such a large space constructing something out of pallets would be good. Maybe have a couple of compost structures so you can move it easily. This site has some interesting info:

http://www.recyclenow.com/home_composting/making_compost/

singlemum_to_3

THANKYOU was having a bad day but ou have all cheared me up with sugestions....looks like im building a compost heap this weekend as well, i do have some palets somewhere will dig them out:) work will be starting on the greanhouse will post some pictures as it progresses...what would you recomend to grow to sell on the side of the road, that i can grow from seed now??