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

ex_fox_now_a_dragon

[Just sharing my slug free cut and come again salad hanging baskets/QUOTE]
How have you managed to accomplish this? I put copper tape around the brackets and the little blighters still got to the booty!

[I got an allotment in November 2008 (actually it's half an allotment ... mine is to the left of the path) ... it was a bit overgrown, so I've been busy for the last 6 months getting it sorted/QUOTE]
You've done fantastic, the allotment looks huge. I can't believe this is only half an allotment.

gingernutbizkit

can anyone tell me if it's safe to put out my runner beans yet? I have had them growing inside to get them going and now they are getting really big. I plan to put them in hanging baskets. I live in the midlands.

TIA, Ging x

Valli

hi Ging.

They've been planted out on our school allotment which is in the very north of the East Midlands.

hex2

Alan - that is really impressive. If you get bored or anything I am only down the M69 and really need some help......

Ging/Valli - East Midlands too, mine are still in the greenhouse but only because I planted them late. And the pesty chickens would eat them.

gingernutbizkit

thanks hex and valli - I'll stick them in then!

Primrose

Gi ng - if it's going to be windy over the week-end I'd delay a little if possible because runner beans really hate the wind and cold and if they haven't been hardened off first they could suffer quite a set-back. I'm really intrigued about your plan to grow them in hanging baskets. Can you provide some more details as they normally need quite a deep root run and poles to climb up. Have you discovered a special technique that some of us don't know about?

Steel_2

Damn but you're neat and tidy Mrs Macawber!

Alan that looks fantastic....I might have to get your round to sort my hellish back garden out. The minute my back is turned it transforms to look like your before picture.

I know I promised pictures, but I've had pathetic girly problems with photobucket the other day. I couldn't remember the password, when I got it sent through to my email and started uploading, the pictures all uploaded oddly and were different sizes. Then I tried to upload here and ended up with either piddling thumbnails on some or huge ginormous beasts on others. After an hour i felt like crying in frustration so i've resorted to my blog and posted the pictures there as I know what I'm doing.

Sorry I'm being completely !!!! at the moment with technology. I broke the phone, fried my laptop cable and snapped the head off an angled task light in the last week.

ALIBOBSY

My runners and broad beans have been out for weeks, but OH and I have been doing the nightime cover up when any frost threatened. Not had to cover for about 2 weeks now hurrah.

ali x

JenWren

This year is my first attempt at growing veggies. Have so far got earlies and second potatoes, carrots, courgettes and cabbages in my veggie patch. Various other veg germinating under propogators. Going to put dwarf runner beans and pea seeds straight in the ground very soon.

At the end of every day I take a wander to the back of my garden to water them and see how things are growing and so far (touch wood) everything's doing well. But tonight I had an awful shock... half of my cabbages have been attacked! Being new to this game I'm not sure what has actually eaten them. I thought that perhaps slugs had been at them but they've not been at my pototoes - I put a ring of slug pellets down just in case. Please can someone let me know what could have eaten my cabbages and how can I stop them? Thank you!

Thought I'd mention that where the leaves had been eaten, what was left of the leaves was a bit slimey! What does that mean?

charlies82

Hi Jenwren,

Its probably white cabbage butterfly, they lay eggs on the underside of the leaves as well as eat them! i found this out last year being a newbie and all. I'm sure others on here with more experience and knowledge than me can help.
My husband made a big frame to go over my raised bed and stapled fleece to it, this stops the butterfly getting to my brassicas.

Charlotte

After seeing your edited post if its slimy then sounds like slugs lol! but look out for the above too.