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

Dustykitten

Great thread - I've started a new veg gardent his year - it is too dark to take a photo now but I'll post again tomorrow.

brogusblue

Hello

This my fruit and veg plot in my back garden here in sunny bedfordshire.
I am currently growing runner beans, peas, carrots, potatoes spring greens, duchy cabbage.cauliflower, brocolli as well as my fruit i have strawberry, redcurrant, blackcurrant, jostaberry, sunberry, japanese wine berry, tayberry, red & green gooseberry, blueberry also peach, 2 plums, bramley,pear & cherry trees

As you can see i grow my veg in car tyres or pots or even a old freezer and fridge.






Cheers
Brogusblue

boredofbeingathome

some great ideas brogusblue, thankyou.

ChocolateMonkey

Ooo I shall have to take some pictures of mine when I get home. All the gardens looks amazing and Brogusblue has given me some great ideas.
@ Brogusblue, What is growing in the water butt and how do the tyre pot containers work? Is it just two tyres with soil inside? and can I use any tyres or are certain ones required.
For some reason I though tyres were toxic so have never tried it. (silly I know:rolleyes:)

brogusblue

Hello

In the old water butt is my strawberries 2 variety's what i did is drilled 110 holes in the butt stood the butt on a car tyre and rim place half a bag of shingle and also a black drain pipe drilled with lots of holes and fill with same mix as my tyres (make sure that you don't get any down the drain pipe) and plant the strawberries and for easy water all you do is fill the drain pipe with water everyday and it waters your strawberries for you.

Car tyres i haven't had any ill effects yet bob flowerdew uses them so i have no problems first thing i did is wash the tyres with a disinfectant and left them for a couple days and then what i do is place one tyre half fill with pea single and fill the inside if the tyre with straw also do this this to the second tyre and stack on top and fill with a mixture of top soil (wickes 5 for £10) and spade of horse manure and compost mix well and fill the tyres up,

If you are wondering about my fruit in coloured pots red is for redcurrant, blue for blackcurrant and blueberry and brown for gooseberry and jostaberry

Cheers
Brogusblue

arkonite_babe

OK, here goes................

this is what's going on in my garden at the moment:


The tumbler tomatoes will be planted out in the next week or so after the frost risk has passed, they're flowering already.


This is my raised bed, made from recycled fencing planks and wire donated from my Uncle. The wire is there to keep the dog out! We currently have in there potatoes, peas, onions, carrots, turnips, salad leaves, aubergines and two pots, one has leeks and the other spring onions. Excuse the mess in the background. I have started to dig out all the weeds to prepare the rest of the garden for planting but just haven't finished yet You can also see my composter in the background. This is one of two I got for free from my local council.


This is my greenhouse. It is made entirely from recycled materials. The wood frame is old wood reused from inside our house and we have had to put lovely skirting board trimmings round the outside to stop the dog bouncing his ball off the plastic! Dad donated the plastic for the outside and the handle is an old one from my now defunct built in wardrobe! The pots on the wall have my herbs in. Chives, mint and fennel. One will be removed and refilled with the tumbler tomatoes in about a weeks time.


This is the rack in the greenhouse. So far we have Spinach, courgette, french sorrel, aubergines, peas, kale, carrots, chillis and peppers.

brogusblue

Hello

arkonite_babe love the greenhouse looks easy to make i will bear this in mind as i need a small green house, The only thing is the plastic going to get brittle i suppose it would be easy thing to change.

I have my toms out now they have been out for the last 2 weeks, Vegeplot looking great in this heat everything is shooting up.

Cheers
Brogusblue

mjr600

Hmmmm it won't accept my Gmail public album photographs.......

Lizzieanne

You've all done incredibly well - I'm inspired now!

I've always grown herbs in baskets on the wall in my garden (off the ground so our dear puss doesn't wee on them!) and last year tried tomatoes as well. This year I've added garlic to the list. I was worried that the novelty would wear off and I didn't want to run before I could walk. The plan is to add an extra crop each year, so next year I'm going to try potatoes as well.

MRSMCAWBER

Just a quick update...
I can't believe how things have shot up in under a week :T
I have been out there from 6am this morning to 2:30 :eek: ..still have more to do..once the extra crates are filled im going to slide them into the middle of the others so you can't see them..;)
Need more compost :eek:

have got loads more set today..-pak choi, misome, mizuma, komatsuna, giant red mustard salad leaves, greek oregano including starting off some more sweet potatoes.. just hope they work...


In the bottom left hand corner that im stood in i have membrane down with 8 butternut squash and 2 patty pan...


I have also put the 4 melons into a crate in the tent and made a network of string for them to climb on (and have kept lots of orange and onion nets to make hammocks for the fruit to keep the slugs off )










Just need to take all my clutter out of the 2nd tend and then i think courgettes will go in there

Its great to see how everyone else is doing.. getting some great ideas