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

MRSMCAWBER

Sorry -
just had to pop back to say that this morning i have got the first flowers on my beans :j how easily pleased am I? :rotfl:

mary43

:T Congratulations !!! Which sort of beans ? Broad beans? Can't be runner beans surely can it ???OH hasn't even planted any yet ??????

~Chameleon~

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Sorry -
just had to pop back to say that this morning i have got the first flowers on my beans :j how easily pleased am I? :rotfl:

Nice one!!! It's a great feeling isn't it My mange tout started flowering last week and I've already noticed a few pea pods on it, can't wait to taste them :j


BTW, I think your garden and pots look fantastic!!! Just being nosey here, but why does each garden have a bit sectioned off by metal fencing? I thought at first it might have been steps down to a lower floor but on another shot it looks like it's still part of the patio

MRSMCAWBER

Hi Mary

Its some Gulliver runner beans :j ... im amazed as they aren't that leafy yet ...don't know if everyone knows but once they start to get flowers on if you mist them in the evening it helps the flowers to set (what would I do without my mum ).. and apparently you do the same with tomato flowers but in the mornings
Im just about to set the last of those beans...thought it might be too late but my mum says not and your OH now says NOT

Im just going to check up to as i am attempting sweet potatoes from a supermarket one ... i have got the long slip things growing of it but need to check what to do next...hope it works as i had 4 sad looking ones so have started those off too

Chameleon..
It does lead to the basement and there is a 2nd set of stairs that lead up into the hall... we have a laundry room and 2 other rooms down there so it saves us dragging laundry and things through the house(although i still seem to do it ) German housing seem to think of these kind of things... the house doesn't seem that big but with the basement and a boarded loft with pull down ladder, lights n sockets up there the storage is brilliant
My peas n sugar snaps have flowers but no pods yet.. if I get a decent crop i will be thrilled as I have been fending of mice -who pinched the 1st lot... slugs -so i have copper taped the troughs and pigeons so i have to keep the mosquito netting to hand..

right back out i go..am in the middle of planting more... hubby is taking me for yet more compost tomorrow and im hoping they still have there fruit bushes...only €1.99 each and a decent size..so i might not be able to resist
hope everyone veggies are coming through :T

Primrose

A hint for anybody wanting to grow climbing beans for the first time. Most people opt for Runner Beans, but they can be very unreliable sometimes as they need bees to pollinate them and if the bees arn't around the flowers fall off without setting into beans, especially in very hot weather. If you grow some climbing French beans as well, these are self polllinating so you will still get a crop when Runner Beans are failing to set. A very nice climbing French Bean is Blauhilde by Thompson & Morgan. It has purple flowers and the beans are purple podded on the plant, so very decorative, although they turn bright green when you cook them.

avantra

Made from old wooden crates my work place disposed of, recycled compost from a neighbouring farm + some local soil dug up by the many moles we have around here (Cotswold's).






At the moment in my 8ft x 1.5ft container garden I have :
Carrots
French Beans
Herbs of all sorts
Celery
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Lettuce
Parsnips
Broccoli
Radish
Red onion
Spring onion
Water cress

Might do spuds but I will need another container.:T

Primrose

Avantra - this is amazing. It really shows what can be achieved in a very limited space and a little ingenuity.

MRSMCAWBER

Ok Im back again

just so excited.. have now spotted my 1st pea pods on my pea plants :j -not that they would be anywhere else . I have 4 or 5 varieties and they all are starting to pod :T and i have some more upstairs that are going out tomorrow . Oh and the Pak choi i set sat/sun is through allready

Avantra... it is brilliant how much produce you have got going on in that space...:T

im sure i will be back like a kid at xmas as soon as somrthing else appears

bella165

im amazed will all your hard work so why dont you enter this to win 350pounds

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kazwookie

MRSMC

Well done.........

Keep going............

My spuds are doing well in compost bags......,I keep wanting to peek to see if I have any spuds yet!!! :rotfl:

It is a bit like being a child let loose in a sweetie shop!! :rotfl: