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

shaz_mum_of__2

Hi all here are my pics my garden is a combination of pots and small beds i dug my hubbys Zen garden up to create it.....................

salad leaves in in trays




A few herbs got coriander in kitchen too




some tomatoes in pots




the runners running





the strawberry bed





pumpkins courgettes and BNS









then theres more salad



potatoes getting about a kg per pot!




and finally winter veg beds celeriac sprouts swedes and thers chinese cabbage and PSB to go in here too









wow that a lotta pics hope you liked them;)


Shaz

~Chameleon~

They look great, well done! :T

Where did you get the green tubing from to make your cages? I've got an old plastic greenhouse made from the same type of stuff so you've got me wondering now if I could adapt it to make something similar

Primrose

Shaz - lots of lovely looking crops and not an inch of space wasted by the look of it. Am sure this is a much more sensible use of space than your husbands Zen garden !! Your strawberry bed looks very organised. Have you already got little runners coming off and pegged down in pots? Mine haven't even started sending out runners yet but as I've just picked the last of what has probably amounted to about 15 lbs of strawberries from my plants, I guess they'll be "running" soon. Goodness knows where I will put any more little plants. My friends are all tired of being offered free strawberry plants !!

hathor

Don't forget vertical gardening, Primrose.

They could go in hanging baskets, about three each, I believe, or wall-mounted (or fence-mounted!!) containers if you're short of ground space.

I'm hoping to learn how to use 2ltr PET bottles as upside-down planters on this thread, mainly for tomatoes, but maybe they could be used for strawberries, too? (Thinking about it, you'd probably grow strawberries in the fat end, wouldn't you?)

ceridwen

paintpot wrote: »

It's a mystery. I went out to my garden this morning and the pumpkin I was growing in a growbag has totally disappeared. There is no sign of it ever being there, the compost isn't disturbed and there are no bits of leaves or stalk to be seen. It's like it has vanished into thin air.

I thought I was going mad and maybe had put it somewhere else but the label in the grow bag is still there. My pepper plant growing next to it is still there and doesn't have so much as a nibble on it

Come on, own up, who's pinched my pumpkin?

Could be the same person who pinched my comfrey plant - and the container it was in?;) I wasnt happy some weeks back when I realised that it had gone from my backyard - everything else was still there - but this had gone.

So - shall we address a joint message to the "phantom plant pincher" - please can we have our plants back? Failing that - okay then: "a plague on all your lettuces and broad beans and whatever else you have in YOUR garden Mr/Mrs Phantom Plant Pincher;) :mad: "

Yategirl

paintpot wrote: »

It's a mystery. I went out to my garden this morning and the pumpkin I was growing in a growbag has totally disappeared. There is no sign of it ever being there, the compost isn't disturbed and there are no bits of leaves or stalk to be seen. It's like it has vanished into thin air.

I thought I was going mad and maybe had put it somewhere else but the label in the grow bag is still there. My pepper plant growing next to it is still there and doesn't have so much as a nibble on it

Come on, own up, who's pinched my pumpkin?

or is it a dog? I blamed slugs and snails for pinching mine and kept replacing the plants ... then I realised there were no slime trails and the plants had gone every so neatly with no sign of disturbance.... I caught the dog the next day neatly taking it and eating it :mad: :rolleyes: She likes courgette plants, sweetcorn and kale as well........

paintpot

Whatever or whoever stole my pumpkin made a very tidy job of it because the grow bag has not been disturbed and there is no hole where the roots would have been tugged out. There are no dogs round here, no slug trails, no evidence at all. Very odd indeed I am going to have to set up CCTV I think :rotfl:

kazwookie

Shaz

Well done, good to see things growing so well

hathor

The phantom Raspberry-Snaffler of Old London Town, maybe? :rotfl:
(With apologies to the late Ronnie Barker)

shaz_mum_of__2

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

They look great, well done! :T

Where did you get the green tubing from to make your cages? I've got an old plastic greenhouse made from the same type of stuff so you've got me wondering now if I could adapt it to make something similar

Thats exactly what it was (nicked from next doors skip)covered with 2 rolls of netting from poundland and lots of pegs

Shaz