The highs and lows of growing your own dinner 2015

Bee70

That's helpful thanks. We only started gyo last year so complete novices.

mulchingoverwinter

Hello all,

Can I join in too?

Where we are at the moment we have an ultra small backgarden, hoping to just grow enough to keep my green fingers going, as we will be looking at buying a house (with an equally small garden, sadly) at the end of the year/early next year. So everything will be done on the cheap.

We do have a conservatory, its full of crap but I'm hoping to get some tomato plants in there this year!

Nessy x

Jazee

Welcome Nessy.

mrsscattercushion

Hello, another straggler wishes to join in!

I posted sporadically on the 2014 thread, but not in recent months. As I had been waiting for an allotment in the village, we had been using a lady's garden she kindly offered to our local society.

Lots happened last year and this and we've just been allocated a half plot 5 mins walk from our house. Have told the lady and harvested the last of the crops.

Successes last year were runner beans (still a third of a freezer full), garlic, shallots, onions, leeks and sprouts.

We start on the new plot, health and weather depending, in next few weeks. Luckily it had only recent been left so needs a lot less work to make it usable. Half plot is about as big as I can manage.

Planning and prep starts soon on what to grow.

look forward to reading and seeing how this pans out for people

Claire

Dizzy_Ditzy

The seed compost has made it into the house and the seed box has come out- that can only mean that I will be sowing this evening :j

Happygreen

the first tomato plants are peeking out , it's better than Christmas! I think it's tomatoes anyway, could be peppers, lol.

I had handful of self-collected seeds on a plate in the kitchen and I thought I'd throw them in a pot and see what happens - presto! No sign of life though with the peppers on the window sill....

I went to a garden centre in passing yesterday to get Wild Rocket Seds as mine died the frost death...£1.99 for what felt like 10 seeds from Suttons - they're barmy!

moneyistooshorttomention

mrsscattercushion wrote: »

Hello, another straggler wishes to join in!

I posted sporadically on the 2014 thread, but not in recent months. As I had been waiting for an allotment in the village, we had been using a lady's garden she kindly offered to our local society.

Lots happened last year and this and we've just been allocated a half plot 5 mins walk from our house. Have told the lady and harvested the last of the crops.

Successes last year were runner beans (still a third of a freezer full), garlic, shallots, onions, leeks and sprouts.

We start on the new plot, health and weather depending, in next few weeks. Luckily it had only recent been left so needs a lot less work to make it usable. Half plot is about as big as I can manage.

Planning and prep starts soon on what to grow.

look forward to reading and seeing how this pans out for people

Claire

Congratulations on getting that plot:T

It was good that you had that chance to use a bit of that lady's garden whilst you needed it.

One thing that I hadn't realised until recently is that there are sample copies of legal type form on GardenShare website in order to protect the interests of home-owners just in case they got any problematic person (rather than yer average usual frustrated gardener type person - as per your good self) wanting to share their garden with them. That form looks fully adequate to cover any potential problems and, hopefully, this will encourage more people to gardenshare.

It's sad when people don't gardenshare. Only yesterday I walked up a little road to see a quite decent size bit of land near them and it was clear that these 3 houses own a portion each of this land and it was all incredibly tatty and clearly not been touched for anything for years and yet each "plot" worth on that land would give a very decent size bit of gardening space to someone who was desperate for a garden to grow food, but didn't have one. I admit to being astonished that these house-owners were just leaving it to look so incredibly scruffy and, all the more so, with the fact that there is Japanese Knotweed in some places in the village (but I couldn't spot any on this land) and you would think they would want to keep the land clear in order to monitor it better to be able to spot if any tried to poke its little shoots in there.

Add the fact that my attention had been drawn by how neglected that land was onto studying the houses themselves and, sure enough, they looked somewhat neglected too and obvious "X marks the spot = old people live here", ie obvious victims for doorstep scammers etc.

That gardenshare scheme is such a good idea.

Jazee

Morning. My plan today, when I eventually get moving, is to walk the dogs then do gardening. I've noticed that some of the leaves on my broad beans are going black so I need to check that out. Think I will plant out now and hope for the best. Still learning.

Also need to move the tomatoes into bigger pots but still keep them indoors for now, and take the polythene off my new plot and rake it over. I have a new hoe, how exciting!

unrecordings

Picked the last of my Pak Choi and then turned over that bed & added some goodies from the compost bin - I plan to try my hand at carrots here. Turned over another bed ready for peas in a couple of weeks. Tidied up the Marjoram plot (a job I should have done last Autumn)

tootallulah

Morning, my Cosmos seeds have germinated well, a few sweet peas have poked through everything else is still making no effort! I grow seeds with a few neighbours and all of mine are flowers this year, the tomatoes, peas and beans are all with neighbours. We do a big plant swap in May and everyone gets what they want. It is so great to see the sun today, the first day of spring.