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

SEE

kazwookie wrote: »

Oh dear, I have just been to a well known auction site, and now have a bid on a greenhouse! :rotfl:

You lot really do have some thing to answer for!:T

Get the biggest you can afford and have space for:A The reason why is, I got a cheap heater and spent the entire winter pottering in mine, and I now prefer it to my house:D I got a 10ft x 8ft on Ebay for £150, aluminum and glass with automatic opening window, and vents. Sigh:D

SEE

This one is good, currently on £21 with an hour to go

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Home-Garden___GREENHOUSE-8X6_W0QQitemZ270244245509QQddnZHomeQ20Q26Q20GardenQQddiZ3824QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item270244245509&_trkparms=72%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C65%3A12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

HelenYorkshire

Here's my masterpiece
Left to right, pak choi, random salad and sorrel, tumbler toms, random salad, lambs lettuce...



:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

(Think I'll sow the random salad a bit thinner in future... )

(do I get bonus points for recycling? My "plant pots" (l-r) previously contained tofu, mushrooms, child's modelling clay, and stir fry veg...)

huxley

Hi all lovely to see how everyones veg patches are progressing. I have officially given up on runner beans this year but have now discovered 3 plantings later have finally discovered why everyone was eaten! I have one raised bed so space is at a premium, the bean plants and canes were too close to the edge of the bed and although I had nemotodes watered into the soil the SAS of slugs and snails here avoided the soil, by going up the edging and sliding onto any bit of avaliable leaf or cane avoided the soil and munched away:mad: . Lesson learnt!

tomsolomon

SEE wrote: »

How did you get slabs so cheap?

The green house, blocks, 3x2 slabs and timber for beds, came from freecyclers.
I got the shed and crazy paving from me mum and dad.
The fencing was made from old pallets from my local family builders merchants.

SEE

huxley wrote: »

Hi all lovely to see how everyones veg patches are progressing. I have officially given up on runner beans this year but have now discovered 3 plantings later have finally discovered why everyone was eaten! I have one raised bed so space is at a premium, the bean plants and canes were too close to the edge of the bed and although I had nemotodes watered into the soil the SAS of slugs and snails here avoided the soil, by going up the edging and sliding onto any bit of avaliable leaf or cane avoided the soil and munched away:mad: . Lesson learnt!

If you have raised beds put copper tape around them. It electrocutes the little slimers:D

SEE

HelenYorkshire wrote: »

Here's my masterpiece
Left to right, pak choi, random salad and sorrel, tumbler toms, random salad, lambs lettuce...



:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

(Think I'll sow the random salad a bit thinner in future... )

(do I get bonus points for recycling? My "plant pots" (l-r) previously contained tofu, mushrooms, child's modelling clay, and stir fry veg...)

That's a great collection you have there:T

~Chameleon~

SEE wrote: »

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

If yours are abnormal then so are mine :rotfl:

I planted out sprouts and purple sprouting broccoli seedlings a month ago (to harvest winter/spring) and they are already 2ft tall and crushed up against my environet :eek:

SEE

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

If yours are abnormal then so are mine :rotfl:

I planted out sprouts and purple sprouting broccoli seedlings a month ago (to harvest winter/spring) and they are already 2ft tall and crushed up against my environet :eek:

An elderly chap told me mine would bolt because they are too big I like big:D

kayjay1809

SEE what a fantastic garden, so pretty and practical too :T