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

rubiales

kazwookie wrote: »

Stomps foot waiting................ :rotfl:

Any one else got veg plots to show us??

Not a new one I'm afraid, but an update after a few days of rain. Can't believe how much the lettuces etc. in my little potager have grown in a week.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn129/rubiales62/00529May08.jpg

Have a few more pots of yellow and purple carrots, dwarf runner beans and spinach added as well. Looking forward to a bumper crop if we get a better summer this year!

kazwookie

OK, I have been out in the garden with my camera, it is only small and my first year, but the spuds in the bags are doing well. The 2 pots at the front have cucumbers growing, the small pots are alpines ready for car booting, the frame is for the sweet peas and cues.

Kelinik

Oooo I'm so pleased to find this thread, literally just started my first ever veggie patch!

Never grown anything before in my life and am using the little known bung-it-in-the-ground-and-hope-for-the-best method so wish me luck!

rubiales

Kelinik wrote: »

Oooo I'm so pleased to find this thread, literally just started my first ever veggie patch!

Never grown anything before in my life and am using the little known bung-it-in-the-ground-and-hope-for-the-best method so wish me luck!

Hey Kelinik, welcome aboard! The 'bung-it-in-the-ground' (or a tub!) method is where we all start. There's lots of help and encouragement to be had on this forum in general and this thread in particular!

Happy gardening!

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

Just been out feeding the tomatoes and thought i'd get some pics of how things are going now..... here is what is happening :-

• I have now been able to stop buying lettuce/salad leaves :T ...
• the peas are all covered in more flowers and lots of pods
• the beans are flowering and have a few beans on
• quite a few tomatoes have flowers on
• the courgettes are flowering
• the melons are in bud
• the broad beans are snowed under with flowers that smell like honeysuckle/orange blossom
• the chillies are flowering
• oh and the potatoes are going loopy :T

I have lots more little seedlings growing in the trays ready to plant up.. so i can set more seeds

Can't wait for more people to post their piccies..im sooo intrigued by everyones different ideas

Kelenik.. this is only my 2nd attempt to grow my own and my 1st one out here..and the bung it in a pot approach seems to be going ok

have a great one everybody... come on folks..more photos..pleasssssse

kazwookie

Mrsmcawber

Looks very good.

What is growing under the fleece or net?

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there Kazwookie ..thankyou

They are 2 troughs of broad beans.... i know its a bit early for them to be attacked by black fly..but i thought i would keep them covered -just in case -i can't get over how many flowers are on them and they smell lovely so im going to grow them next to the patio doors next year. I had a gazebo that had mosquito pannels so when the frame broke i kept all the pannels..i knew i would find a use for them :rotfl:

hathor

I'm not at the stage yet where I have anything that might be vulnerable to attack, but I'm trying to do lots of research, with the idea that by the autumn I should be able to draw on lots of experience and advice from all you successful growers and avoid some of the pitfalls that beginners are prey to.

I only have a balcony to grow on, but as I'm on the second floor (third, if you're American, ie "ground-plus-two") I don't think I need worry much about slugs'n'snails. I'm also at the coast, which may be a factor.

Do you think that the high elevation of my containers (when compared to a garden- or patio-based container plot) might protect me from some of the various pests which assail growing veggies?

Incidentally, the reason I'm soft-pedalling the veg production this year isn't a lack of commitment, it's because (a) the penny has only just dropped that it is possible at all, which is too late for some things and (b) the managing agents will be painting the outside of my building this year, starting next week, and lasting for a couple of months, so anything I have near a wall will have to be moved out of the way of the painters.

One word of warning for fellow advice-gatherers: don't do what I did this week. It is my habit to cut & paste bits which are particularly relevant to me, or a bit complicated, so I can read them again - often several times! - and refer to them later. If there are several bits, I often combine them into a rolling Word document, with a space between, and then print it off to keep in my "useful things to know" file. Being foolish, I didn't note where each gem of wisdom came from, and now I have a nice detailed piece of advice where I want to ask the expert a question (apologies for being unfaithful, but I always come back to this site first, honest) but I can't remember where it was posted . Moral: take proper notes!

kazwookie

hathor

I have done better than that with cut and paste,

I was multi tasking, emailing a customer, pasted in to their email something of this site, that I had copied, the phone rang, I answered it and pressed send on the email at the same time :rotfl:

I got a very strange answer back from the customer, I now have spell check set automatic, so I cannot do that again!!

Now back to your 2nd floor and stuff:- I would suggest anything that grows in pots would gorw on your 2nd floor, but you may need to water more often.

But I am no expert. :rotfl:

mary43

Thanks to you lot and how neat and tidy your veg plots are, plus a bit of 'encouragement' OH has this afternoon put some paving slabs down under his pots of veg. (They were previously a bit higgeldy piggeldy in our concrete bit of yard. I was given some pretty tiles so OH has used the slabs that went around the herb garden we had (basically six big tubs of assorted herbs surrounded by a wall of bricks to make it look like a little raised bed)
Herb garden will now have the pretty tiles around it and OH's veg are better displayed - we can see them from the garden table so they might as well be pleasant to look at.
So far he's got potatos in a potato barrel, two pots of runner beans, two pots of courgettes, various tomatoes we've been given, some in hanging baskets.
We're now waiting on some chilli seeds to grow a bit more (bit late for them I've been told but they're doing ok so far.
Sorry no piccys............don't have the hi tech stuff to do it so you'll have to take my word