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

tomsolomon

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

It all looks great Tom, well done!! :T

Is the path made from broken paving slabs? If so, where did you get such a large quantity, or did you break them up yourself? I could do with a pathway like that myself

I got the crazy paving from my parents, they have been building it up for years now. They decided to have a change though so I put them a patio down and reclaimed the broken slabs. I'm off to knock up some compo now to start pointing them.....:D

There's usualy loads of slabs going on freecycle, you may be able to get some there, just give em a whack with a lump hammer.

Keith

This is mine, just a small patch as we decided 2m x 1m was too big, so went 1 x 1, wish we hadn't but never mind! It's full with peas, brocilli (which is delicious) and tomatoes at the back. Slugs are going mental for it!



Then I have my greenhouse thing, which is home to strawberries and a fair few peppers, I started when making stirfry to pop the seeds from the peppers into the mushroom container with a bit of compost. 3 stirfrys later and no germination I gave up, then a couple grew, then a few more and then, I think the picture tells the rest of this story :rotfl:



I think there is 50 pepper plants :rotfl:

frugalsar

Here is my little patch - It's a bit messy and disorganised but it's my first attempt at growing veg - I have Sprouts / Rhubarb / Toms / Peppers / cabbage / Lettuce /sweetcorn & Pumpkin - all of which are struggling a bit (apart from the rhubarb which is taking over!) I'm having a bit of a dilemma though, next doors Laburnum dropped all it's flowers and pod type thinys all over my veg patch and I heard laburnum is poisonous? do you think the veg will contaminated??

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mary43

keith - love your veg patch........everything looks like its loving it there and 50 pepper plants ? Lucky you............sadly this year we have none. Think it was a case of concentrating on other things and they sort of got forgotten about.

frugaslsar lovely lot of stuff you've got. Not certain about the laburnam but I think its only poisonous if the pods are eaten.
We had a tree in our garden many years ago when dad grew all his own veg and they were never affected.

papoosue

Hi everyone. Just spent the last hour looking through this thread and I'm so impressed with everyones gardening plots, patches and pots. I've got a patch dug which I've filled with potatoes - one row of early and two of main crop; also got two huge blue tubs filled with potatoes (got them free from a friend) and a couple smaller pots too. My young son has planted some pots up with carrots and peas which have just started to emerge - oh, and some mixed lettuce too (although a snail had a nice feast of the first seedlings to appear!).

I can't wait to get those potatoes dug up. Last year we only planted them in pots and they were delicious, this is the first time I've planted them in a dug patch though. I have some more space for veg that has been roughly dug over but it's a really clay soil and I'll need to find a way to improve it - any suggestions (inexpensive) would be great.

I'll post some pics when I can.

:-)

shaz_mum_of__2

My lovely hubby has spent his week off in the garden...........................building me a huge raised bed (4 sleepers in a square)

He also built a covered over gazebo type thing over our patio ,that way we can get our lovely hardwood table and chairs out of the garage and use it!!!

He wants to have a go at growing grapes under it too (draped from the beams and under the clear sheeted roof anyone grow grapes ?any reccomendations? we are in N lincolnshire near humber bridge if that makes a difference

Also what can i put in this new bed over winter am i too late i have some PSB seedlings and a type of chinese cabbage but want to make the best of this extra space asap


Shaz

Primrose

papoosue - virtually any green waste dug into your clay soil will help to improve it - straw, grass cuttings (if not treated with weedkiller), kitchen peelings, mushroom compost, well rotted manure. shredded newspaper. It may take a few years to really show the difference but everything you can add to it will help. It's best to compost stuff down first, but until you can get a compost heap growing, I'd recommend digging it straight into the ground in warm weather as with the help of the worms it will decompose fairly quickly.

Shaz - we have an outdoor grape vine against south facing fence. We are in Bucks so a little further south than you but it's a Reisling (small) grape which is sweet enough to pick as a dessert grape in October, and we have also made wine with it too.

papoosue

Thanks Primrose :-)

We have three compost bins on the go and not all of them are successful, but I think there is one which we can use to dig in soon.

Thanks again.

cammumof3

www.allotment.org.uk

My lottie :
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Looks like a great allotment, looks massive.
Everything looks like it is growing nicely,
I like the beer cans.

I have saved the allotment web site you posted to my fav's so I can look later.
Caz

squiggle37

I know this isnt a veg patch just wanted to show my flowers around front door, my bussy lizzie hanging basket ball is filling out lovely never done of these before (grew lizzies from seeds), quiet impressed with the climbing petunia's think they are new plants this year.

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