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

gingerbeer

Hi all, I love this thread and especially love the pics of all your garden/allotments. It has been a great source of information for me and wish i had found it before i started trying to grow veg in July. Luckily i was reading in the forums last night about cabbage butterflys after having found a few flying around the garden at weekend and sharing in my 4yr old DD delight not knowing the damage they cause. I have now spent the evening squashing eggs and caterpillars Yuuch!

Anyway I have attached a few pics of my garden which has sweetcorn, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, tomatoes, chillies, peppers, jalapenos, strawberries, gooseberry, blueberry, olive, coriander, cherry tree, lemon thyme, raspberry, beetroot, runner beans, potatoes and pumpkins (most are still only babies yet). After all your advice to people I planted salad leaves and radishes at weekend. can't wait until i can harvest something.

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I hope I have done this correctly. Sorry if I haven't - it's my first time

connacher

gingerbeer your garden is stunning what a view. glad to see your sweetcorn i have some and wasnt sure what it should look like, mine looks just like yours

gingerbeer

thanks Connacher. We moved here 2 years ago and the house had been empty for a year so when we finally moved in the garden was massively overgrown but what with.....the largest blackberry bushes, rhubarb, gooseberries, etc you have ever seen. we soon set to work ripping everything out for our child friendly garden not knowing i would start wanting to grow my own. Ahh the beauty of hindsight!


http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f168/makeminealarge1/gooseberrybush.jpg

kazwookie

Hi gingerbeer,

You found a man at the bottom of your garden!! :rotfl:

Love the photos well done.

moneymagnet300

Great to see everyones garden. They look so good.We started a bit late with our vegetables.
I have spent evenings collecting the snails and slugs. I do not like killing them so I take them a mile away to the park where I walk the dog and let them go.
BUT something keeps eating my beans, kale and all the tops of the carrots and beetroot! ! !
What do other people do to keep them down. I would rather not use chemicals.
Any advice would be great.

~Chameleon~

Something's been having a good munch of my chard too but I can't find anything on it

brunette_babe

Hi all, great thread and close to my heart as I am a gardener by trade and grow veg for fun at home too. I find seeing other's gardens a great incentive to get out and do more with my garden. I put 4' x 18' veg beds in my garden six years ago, using plain untreated sleepers left over from a site in devon which were going to be burnt. In these beds (well actually only 2 1/2 out of 5 of them) I have grown this year, onions and shallots from sets, baby carrots and baby parnsip, cabbage, beans - broad, french, runner, calabrese, tomatos, lettuce, courgette, brussels, and sprouting broccoli, and going to put in leeks anyminute now. My best tip is - look after your soil! Feed it with manure in autumn, mulch with grass clippings to keep in moisture and provide some feed, after that, the soil will grow anything ( except carrots dont like new manured land). :rolleyes:

I also found that a small expense of some garden fleece has made my carrots the best they have ever ever been. No carrot fly, easy picking, quick growing. Make a tent over the rows with bean sticks and keep the carrots under there! Amazing. The fleece can be used year after year, and keep butterflies off the cabbages too.

In my smaller gardens this year I have managed to grow courgettes and runner beans amongst the border flowers, dont think you have to have a seperate plot. Go to the library and use the info you can get there to learn, and just have a go, nothing much to lose! Use any and every container for pots, I even had a cold frame made from an upturned divan base with a hatchback car boot lid on it! It was amazingly good! You can fine tune as you learn. And think of all the money you save with veggies fresh and tasty from your efforts!! Have fun x:beer:

Cinders2001

I do have a veg patch but the caterpillars have taken over the Greens

I do have a 12 foot 2 inch Sunflower though..... does that count?!

hathor

Does fleece protect against aphids, too?

juliemay_3

Great thread. i am inspired to try and grow something(anything) edible in a small raised bed 1.5m by 1m. Is it too late though? Any ideas anyone? Also I'm really keen to grow blueberries in a border but the plants at the local garden centre are £11.50 for a small bush 75cm tall with only a handfull of berries. Does anyone know where I can get some more reasonably priced.

Cheers