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

Steel_2

I'm trying desperately hard to plant my potatoes at the moment. I'm managing a small row at a time before it showers again and drives me indoors.

One more row to go, then I'm covering them with 6 inches of straw and a wire cover to stop the chickens and cats playing in there.

Then it's onto the onions!

poppet

5 raised beds, one containing soft fruit (hence the converted gazebo frame fruit cage)

Ive got red and white onions in the ground along with shallots, early spuds, garlic, beetroot and early carrots. The half compost bin you can see is for my salad-blue spuds which havnt arrived yet. We alot of potatos but normal every day white ones are easily available in the shops so i thought i would have a go at growing an unusual variety.

Then in the greenhouse ive got all sorts germinating, sweetcorn, french beans, 3 or 4 kinds of toms, cucmber, red pepper, hot chilli, beetroot, red cabbage, cauliflour, parsnips, 3 kinds of lettuce, rocket, basil, tarragon, mint, chives and corriander ... im sure there's more but off the top of my head thats all i can think of at the moment.

oh and sun flowers - i love sunflowers

MRSMCAWBER

oooooohhhhh I want that greenhouse

Glad its not just me..I have made a brassica cage/tent from 3 arches and mosquito curtains from a broken gazebo :rotfl:

Doom_and_Gloom

I have the following veggies, fruit and flower seedlings either knowing they are there for sure or just popping their heads up:

1. 13 tomatos (I will be doing loads as I eat them all the time)
2. 4 peppers
3. 2 courgettes
4. 2 sunflowers
5. 1 melon
6. 1 cauliflower
7. 1 sweetcorn
8. 3 peas
9. 5 brussel sprouts
10. 1 strawberry
11. 2 broccoli
12. many carrot seedlings
13. many parsnip seedlings
14. many leek seedlings
15. loads of cress

Yesterday my ma bought me 3 types of strawberry plant (2 of each) to make sure that this year I had one type of early variety, one type of mid variety and one type of the late variety because my ma is really nice like that (plus she likes strawberries just as much as I do and wanted to add to the plants I already have and the ones I am growing :rotfl: ). That means that I should be growing 5 different varieties of strawberry which I am loving the sound of ! Hopefully some time soon I'll take some pictures of everything that I am growing. Hope everyone else the best in what they are growing.

D&G

hex2

Steel - I have the same problem, 4 chickens, 3 dogs (one just a puppy), 2 cats and two small boys all feel that they have the right to dig in my veg plot. We put a picket fence up last year but the chickens come over the dry stone wall in the middle instead - and I am not sacrificing that! We are trying moveable frames to protect things this year, and the boys (hopefully) are now big enough to understand not to go in there at all.

poppet - that is a huge greenhouse - I wish I had that much space.

doom & gloom - sounds like it is all coming on well.

she_grinch

http://http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2008/02/06/recycling-stuff-for-your-garden/

I have used toilet roll tubes for planting seeds for many years now but would never have thought of using eggshells!!!

Natty68

hex2 wrote: »

Steel - I have the same problem, 4 chickens, 3 dogs (one just a puppy), 2 cats and two small boys all feel that they have the right to dig in my veg plot. We put a picket fence up last year but the chickens come over the dry stone wall in the middle instead - and I am not sacrificing that! We are trying moveable frames to protect things this year, and the boys (hopefully) are now big enough to understand not to go in there at all.

Oh I am so glad we are not the only ones that have dogs that dig holes in freshly dug up vegetable plots. My two think it's great to dig as far as you can without mummy telling them off, or noticing!!

Primrose

I'll fight you for Poppet's greenhouse Mrs M - and all that lovely growing space.
Poppet - you've been busy. Hope you get lots of lovely crops from all those pots.
I sowed my first batch of outdoor tomato seeds today. Possibly a little too early so will so the remainder in a week's time. It will be just my luck for us to have a really cold frosty spell just as they're growing tall and lanky and need to be planted out so have got myself a large collection of square 5 litre mineral water bottles with the bases cut off to use as individual cloches if that happen.

[Deleted User]

Poppets!! THAT is what a call a greenhouse! I can only wish....

Ancalime

Hi all
I posted a little bit last year but spent a lot more time lurking. We managed to grow Chilli's indoors and carrots and spring onions outside successfully, my brussel sprout unfortunately got destroyed by caterpillars while we were away on holiday. It was our first year so we were just proud to manage anything. I have really enjoyed looking at everyone’s photos and have my first batch from this year to share once I can work out how!

At the moment my raised beds are empty, I'm up in Fife and we are still getting quite cold nights and we had frost last night again, but in the house I've got propagating carrots, Savoy cabbage, leeks, three types of chilli's-cayenne, Jalapeño and chocolate Habanera, sweet banana peppers, my first batch of salad leaves and my pot of herbs for the kitchen window. We also have two huge tubs of weeds for the tortoise:rotfl:

I'm also going to grow garlic, beetroot, kale spring onions, radishes, parsnips, peas, beans, Swiss chard, red cabbage and another two types of carrots. I've also just ordered the potatoes from Thompson and Morgan which I found in this wonderful forum. I got the seed offer too!

We are going out this afternoon to put in our third raised bed and make some plans for how to make frames to stop the local cats getting in and the butterflies so Mrs M's frame may be the base of my inspiration. Thank you

This is a much longer post than it was meant to be but once I get going about my veggies I can't seem to stop:D