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

hathor

SEE, that's impressive indeed.
Thanks especially for the "progress" pics. It's inspiring/encouraging for us beginners to see that it doesn't take "forever" to get bare earth to look like established healthy planting.
No disrespected intended, and I am enormously grateful for everyone's help, but looking at an established garden can make the less confident of us think it's been developed over years and we ourselves are a long time away from something meaningful.

SEE

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

I absolutely adore your veggie garden SEE

You've given me much needed inspiration to make mine look more presentable for next year as it currently just has beds dug over (no wooden edging) with compacted ground between for walkways, which I just know will turn into a mudbath come the winter :rotfl:

Can I ask what sort of wood you used please as it looks great!

Blasted oak railway sleepers from Ebay:D Cheap cheap cheap:D They blast em to remove the oil. Got my 10ft x 8ft greenhouse from Ebay for £150 too:D
For more inspiration, this was my garden in December last year:o I sowed 1000 assorted flowering perenial plants from seed that would have cost £5000 fully grown from a garden center, I did all the work myself, and now I'm sitting down to enjoy it for a while before I start building the chicken run and hutch:D I'll try find another pic of what it's like now:D

Primrose

See - lots of interesting things to see in your veggie patch, and it looks really sensible too as you can move around everything easily to water and weed it. And I bet those hanging baskets will soon be full of good things to eat - do they contain strawberries or Tumbling tomatoes?

My veggie patch is one continual strip because I'm greedy for growing space and didn't want to lose any, so everything is planted in rows fairly close together which makes weeding a problem, especially as the soil gets compacted, so not ideal. Still, it's amazing what we all cram into our small spaces isn't it?

SEE

My garden at the moment:D I do close ups of the flowers I've planted if anyone is interested, but wouldn't want to bore you:o

SEE

Primrose wrote: »

See - lots of interesting things to see in your veggie patch, and it looks really sensible too as you can move around everything easily to water and weed it. And I bet those hanging baskets will soon be full of good things to eat - do they contain strawberries or Tumbling tomatoes?

My veggie patch is one continual strip because I'm greedy for growing space and didn't want to lose any, so everything is planted in rows fairly close together which makes weeding a problem, especially as the soil gets compacted, so not ideal. Still, it's amazing what we all cram into our small spaces isn't it?

Yep, the baskets are Cambridge strawberries and marigolds to ward of the evils:D I'm growing my spuds in 140 litre containers, and I haven't shown you my fruit bed yet:D

jtb2412

Blimey SEE, you been out there day AND night? lol

I'd love to see your fruit bed

SEE

hathor wrote: »

SEE, that's impressive indeed.
Thanks especially for the "progress" pics. It's inspiring/encouraging for us beginners to see that it doesn't take "forever" to get bare earth to look like established healthy planting.
No disrespected intended, and I am enormously grateful for everyone's help, but looking at an established garden can make the less confident of us think it's been developed over years and we ourselves are a long time away from something meaningful.

You're most welcome, and I'm also female, so, ladies, roll up your sleeves:D

mary43

what a lovely garden...............pretty and practical............have to have a word with OH about ours I think

SEE

Thank you all for your kind words. I highly reccomend starting a veggie plot to everyone, even if you only have containers:cool:
I've been told my cabbage and sprouts are abnormal, I can't see why, but apparently they shouldn't be 2ft tall, yet

SEE

Here are my 5ft tall spud plants:o and to the side is a little bean patch that I dug over in a section that's still in progress