Show Us Your Veg Patch - You Know You Want To!! (Merged Thread)

divadee

Thought everyone would like to see our newly formed vegetable patch. Its only small but theres only 3 of us in the house so nothing bigger needed at the minute. It costs us about £50 to make and do including all the seeds and plants etc...







ps. its mr divadees shadow you can see in the bright sunshine


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MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

That looks lovely..and very neat n tidy...you have made a really good job :T

just thought i would share how my veggies are coming along .its now know as my POTio aPOTment..as it seems to be growing :T





not sure how the pics wil appear -but if they are small you can click on them to make them bigger.,,ooh and you will have to excuse the clutter in the corner -thats where i sit to pot stuff up so keep all my gubbins there

there is still a lot to go out yet -but im so excited
I also have 2 tent for growing melons and peppers/chillies in and the tubs with wigwams that more beans are climbing up

can't wait to start fetching things in

hope everyone elses veggies are coming along

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Nice idea for a thread - great to see your veggie plots. Good luck to all. I have a veg plot but can't post my pics yet because of techie probs

Lesley

mustafa_say_ving

Divadee, you've done a cracking job there.

Mrsmcawber, I'll be very interested to see how yours comes along, I'm hoping to do a few veggies next year. Our garden is quite small (too small for a proper patch anyway) and it's very much the kids garden for playing.

However, I do have a largish roof terrace which will be Ideal for a few veggie pots, I may test the water with a couple of tomato plants.

Thanks for sharing your pictures.

divadee

at the moment we have planted:-

potatoes, first earlies and maincrop
rhubarb (2 crowns donated by an elderly neighbour who was going to bin them)
spring onions
onions
lettuce
parsnips
carrots
beetroot
tomatoes (in hanging baskets and pots)


its not a bad lot for a first year of growing we will make mistakes i am sure and learn from them. I love the bark all round the patches it means its easy and soft to kneel on, and the bark was free as its play bark that we already had under our old climbing frame.

MRSMCAWBER

Its lovely to see what everyone else is doing

Mustafa... i have grown things in pots once before back in the UK..and i was amazed by the results... this is my 1st attempt out here and i must admit to going a bit crazy... im planting allsorts .. mostly in tubs.. as its army housing..although i have covered one bit of bumpy lawn with membrane and have planted out my butternut squash there..and courgettes will be joining later (if there is room :rotfl: )
I will post pictures once everything is up and running.... im planning on keeping a note of how much produce i get off each variety so i can see if there are some things not worth bothering with next year (sad i know )-mind i have grown everything from seed so im keeping my fingers crossed
the thing that has surprised me most so far are parsnips..my 1st attempt and in the last couple of days 50 have appeared :j

Its going to be great to watch everyone elses veggies coming along..we will have to swap tips

divadee

i will keep adding picture when i get more to show, at the moment my carrots look like grass, my lettuce are going mad and my potatoes are growing about an inch a day

jawa1

divadee wrote: »

Thought everyone would like to see our newly formed vegetable patch. Its only small but theres only 3 of us in the house so nothing bigger needed at the minute. It costs us about £50 to make and do including all the seeds and plants etc...



ps. its mr divadees shadow you can see in the bright sunshine

Thats looks great divadees.

What size wood / cost and where did you get it from for the edges?

Great stuff

divadee

jawa1 wrote: »

Thats looks great divadees.

What size wood / cost and where did you get it from for the edges?

Great stuff

we got lengths of decking from a neighbour who bought to much and had lost the receipt so couldnt take it back We paid him £1 a length and it was 1.8m in length. We then cut it in half to make it the width we wanted. So no wastage at all. In total it took 9 planks of 1.8m lengths. B&Q on their going going gone days sometimes have decking for £3 a 1.8m length, so if you are interested wait for a GGG day!!

Some people say you shouldnt used tannelised stuff for your veg as the old stuff used to contain arsenic. But new treated stuff no longer contains arsenic as it is illegal to. If you are worried, then you could always attach black polythene to the inside to stop any possible contamination etc...


The picket fence we have round the patch was reused from elsewhere in the garden. It was for little miss divadees play area which is now our veg area and lawn lol. we just moved the fence over and made it all enclosed. Mainly to stop stray balls and our cat getting in!!!

boredofbeingathome

You've just inspired me to re jig a corner in my garden, which i was beginning to despair about. I was wondering if a slightly shady spot would be ok. The sun in summer is on it until midday, then moves around the back of the fence. The opposite corner will get the sun until about 6pm in summer, so equal times for both corners..any thoughts?

frivolous_fay

Do I win a prize?


Edit... would, have been funnier if I hadn't mislabelled the chilli and toms