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

SEE

Dave101t wrote: »

id love to show you my raised seed bed, 2 mini greenhouses with loads growing in it and the rest, but it wont let me upload pictures/attachments! must need more posts first?

Upload them to photobucket:T

hex2

Dave101t wrote: »

id love to show you my raised seed bed, 2 mini greenhouses with loads growing in it and the rest, but it wont let me upload pictures/attachments! must need more posts first?

Dave it only lets you post via a host such as photobucket. I upload my pics to photobucket.com (free account) into a 'large' size , I then click onto the photo I want and then on the right hand side right click on the IMG code and copy. I then go into the normal reply posting box on here and I right click to paste the IMG code which looks like a string of nonesense starting and ending [IMG]Once the post is on the forum the picture should show direct on screen without the need to click through on a link. Hope this helps . Shout if you get stuck - look forward to seeing your pictures.[/img]

Jake'sGran

Dustykitten wrote: »

Great thread - I've started a new veg gardent his year - it is too dark to take a photo now but I'll post again tomorrow.

I am not thick, honest. In fact, some people think I am quite bright BUT I have still to master the art of putting a picture in one of my posts. A few kind people have told me how and I do understand English but no, not succeeded yet. My niece took a great picture and I want to show everyone.

mcspanna

Jake'sGran21019971 wrote:

I am not thick, honest. In fact, some people think I am quite bright BUT I have still to master the art of putting a picture in one of my posts. A few kind people have told me how and I do understand English but no, not succeeded yet. My niece took a great picture and I want to show everyone.

There is a great thread on another forum that explains how to get your images onto photobucket.

Once you have followed points 1-5 replace point 6 with:

Return to the MSE site. Start typing your message upto the point where you would like to insert your picture. Click on the icon 'insert image' above your message and paste the link copied from photobucket page into the pop up box that appears (you may need to allow pop ups on your machine).

You can usually copy and paste by highlighting something with your mouse and then clicking the right button which brings up a list/menu with these options on it.


HTH

Mcspanna :beer:

hathor

Moneysaving Diva: Thought you'd like to know that just from sprinkling cinnamon on my pots has scared off the flies already. Just half an hour later, things were much better (don't know where the flies went to, mind ) Haven't got any sharp sand yet, but that will be next, to prevent a recurrence.

One of the may good things about this thread: tips that work! :T

Thanks again.

Steel_2

Just thought I'd tell everyone about a variety of heirloom tomato I just found called 'Mortgage Lifter'. It's a shame I already have mine growing otherwise I'd have grown those instead

Taking piccies of my (slightly chicken chewed) veggie patch and will post up shortly....

MRSMCAWBER

Afternoon all

Here we go -pics of my "potio appotment" -well the structures n pots anyway :rotfl:


Room for a few of my 42 tomatoes :poff to look up those mortgage lifter ones (for next year)in a moment -thankyou Steel

Inside my home made brassica tent -things have come on a fair bit since the pic

Where my beans are going to go -hubby has secured sheets of wire to the bottom halves now and then I have run strings across the top for plenty of things for them to hold onto...
along the short edges I have set some dwarf beans (on the far side) and Im trying sweetcorn on the near side...

What will hopefully become my pea fence

An over view of my brassica tent

the dustbins have sweet potatoes in -I grew my own slips again :j
that arch will have squash on

Hubby extended this arch to clear the doors and will have squash or peas -or both on

My strawberry table made from 2 broken benches ..I also have 8 of those hanging bags with them in too

and my cold frame where I have salad leaves at the moment ...

Ok I think thats enough to bore you all for a while now....

Primrose

What an amazing and organised collection, Mrs.M. You are an inspiration to anybody who wants to grow vegetables in containers. I can imagine that in a few weeks' time your patio will be an incredible mixture of greenery. Will be especially interested to see how your climbing beans perform.

mary43

MrsMcCawber - what a lovely collection you've got and all laid out so neat...........if I remember rightly you were very organised last year.
Wish I could be like that. Still, we've got buckets and 'sacks' with potatoes in and OH planted some carrots in a tub this afternoon. Last years were as big as my thumbnail !!! Hope this lot'll be better. They were freebies from the bbc.digit website.
Runner Beans, french beans arriving at the weekend (old chap down the road grows them in his greenhouse......gives them a good start and we get a few when they're ready to plant out.
Tomatos will come later.
OH is desparate for some chilli plants...........last years lot were dreadful -think they were two small and too late when we got them.

mumoftwo

I love reading this thread, I am such an amateur and beginner compaired to most of you. But I am thinking by beginning small I don't get overwhelmed and disheartened.

I have planted seed pot in an old bin,and they have come up!! Woohoo!! lots of lovely purpely leaves, now for the question:

How tall do they need to be before I have to put more earth on them? There is one shoot that already has lots of leaves but isn't very tall and there are a few that are quite small still. So the leaves will be covered in soil again, will the leaves just die off then? Sorry but I have never grown tatties before so have no idea what I should be looking for.