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

shaz_mum_of__2

Primrose wrote: »

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 !!

Yes lots of runners not many strawbs 15lb i am jealous

It there first year so didn't expect too much(plus i need more plants as moving all fruit to a bigger bed currently under construction) i wasnt sure if removing runners would increase fruit production as the book i have only does veg and herbs

and.............my greenhouse comes tomorrow(given up on freecycle)


Shaz

nodwah

hathor wrote: »

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?)

I found a blog called www.containergardening.wordpress.com they grow stuff in all sorts of containers - old tins, bottles etc.

hathor

Thanks, Nodwah.

I've just stolen this bit for general info. As the man says, surely the ultimate strawberry hanging basket! (Could be the answer to Primrose's surplus runners, too!)

Hanging Strawberry Baskets

Suspending strawberries off the ground is a great way to keep slugs, snails, and sow bugs off them. Five to six strawberry plants can grow in the top of a hanging basket in the spring. But if you want to make the ultimate hanging strawberry basket, gather 24 strawberry plants, a 16 inch wire basket, potting soil, and some sphagnum moss, coconut fiber or a specially designed basket liner. Line the wire basket with the damp sphagnum moss, coconut fiber or basket liner. Insert 18 of the plants into the basket sides through the sphagnum moss. After you have finished, fill the basket with potting soil and planting the remaining plants in the top of the basket. The basket will continue to produce fruit for about three years.

nodwah

I've only got 3 plants per basket!

~Chameleon~

nodwah wrote: »

I've only got 3 plants per basket!

Me too!!!! And I'm using a 16" basket!

JWF

wow 16 plants will need some watering!

cammumof3

HI all
I am new to the site as well as new growing my own veg.
I have tomatoes,swede,brussels,onions,mushrooms,peas,parsnips and I think that is it.
I loved looking at every ones photos.
I am going for an allotment but it's about a 2 yr waiting list so I have loads of pots in my back garden and a veg patch with more pots in my farther in laws back garden.
I will try and add photos.
Caz

hathor

Welcome, and well done for making a good start!

You're certainly showing lots of ambition, putting in for an allotment as a new grower. Very brave! Do you perhaps have a tame gardening expert in the family?

Doom_and_Gloom

Yay I've finally got some pictures together. The quality is not that good but it shows it so that's the main thing.

This is my veg patch


It has the following in it:
Sweetcorn (some are losing the battle unfortunatly )
Cabbages
Lettuce (really doing well and one is SOO big I can not belive it)
Beetroot
Marrow
Courgette
Cucumbers
Peas
Carrot
Onions
Spring onions

Pepper plant


Tomatoes


Strawberry plants


Basket inside with 2 golden courgettes, 3 pumpkin plants, some lettuce (not doing well ) and chives.


I also have more carrots and spring onions growing indoors as well as some radish .

mary43

Mouth watering stuff. I do ency you the pepper plant. OH normally grows peppers but couldn't find any plants this year and left it a bit late for seeds..........he tried chillis from seed and they were doing ok till something ate them !!
Still, everything else is doing ok and we've strawberries ripening daily