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

lucy*locket

charlies82 wrote: »

Hi All,

I thought i would share my photos (if done correctly) I only got into gardening last year and i really have been bitten by the bug lol!

http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009537.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009543.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009544.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009542.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009539.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009538.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009540.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009535.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009536.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009534.jpg

Wow your garden looks great, I've planted a few seeds this year for the first time, depending on the results would like to do more next year and have plans for a raised bed or two.......

Lotus-eater

charlies82 wrote: »

Hi All,

I thought i would share my photos (if done correctly) I only got into gardening last year and i really have been bitten by the bug lol!

http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009537.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009543.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009544.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009542.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009539.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009538.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009540.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009535.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009536.jpg
http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/charlies82/?action=view&current=12052009534.jpg

Very nice. That side border, you could take out that climber and fit a fruit climber, or even as it is, fit in some raspberries. But a very good start, easy to keep on top of.

PhilCCFC

Time to show you my mainly potted up garden, I haven't persuaded the kids to give up their climbing frame in favour of a small plot area yet

Tomatoes (not sure whether they were Roma or Pomdora ), one of 2 reusable grow bags.



From left to right, Dwarf French Bean, Sunflower, Dwarf French Bean and then 3 Dwarf Broad Beans.


Mixture of purple carrots, spinach, spring onion, sage, lettuce, purple brocolli, thyme, chilli's, 1st year strawberries and chant carrots.


Dwarf Broad Beans and Celery.


Banana Shallots and Sprouts.


Elsewhere in various pots I have potatoes, second year strawberries and 4 hanging baskets with tumbling tomatoes in...not bad for my first stab at this since I was a kid going to my Dad's allotment.

Lotus-eater

This is what the main area of mine looks like atm.
http://s293.photobucket.com/albums/mm72/moneysaving/?action=view&current=1.jpg
In beds in other areas I have potatoes and all the alliums. Plus all my fruit bushes.
Nice photo of my poached egg flowers.
http://s293.photobucket.com/albums/mm72/moneysaving/?action=view&current=2.jpg

angelavdavis

Looking good everyone!

Lotus-eater, are they cabbages or spinach under the uncovered cloche in the second bed over? They look like they are thriving.

I will have to post a few photos for you all.

Lotus-eater

Summer cabbages I think.

Jack's_mummy

hathor wrote: »

Those strawberries look healthy! I've just got some alpine strawberry seeds germinating: some of them are through, but they're TINY!

Anybody know how many I should put in a 12in hanging basket when they get a bit bigger? My basket is the solid kind, not one of those you can poke plants through the sides of.

I have 2 alpines in mine. But they are 3 years old now and quite big.

hathor

Thanks for that Jack's Mum. My tiny seedlings are only just showing their first true leaf, so they're not ready for re-potting just yet. I think I'll put 3 or 4 of them together if you've got 2 3-year olds out there. Mine are only toddlers at the moment.

robnye

i looked last night.... me peas are just poking through......... how sad am !.... hehe

Alibuster01

Hi all, I've spent a few late nights reading this thread from the start and got loads of useful info & inspiration. Thanks!:T Haven't read for a week or so (friend in hospital), so need to catch up again!

I recently planted some free seeds and have now repotted a load of them in loo rolls & newspaper rolls etc (great tip!). I'm not sure about the basil though. It currently looks like cress, in an egg box on the kitchen window sill. Does each little seed/plant grow into a big plant? I've taken 2 out and put them in individual loo rolls to see what happens. I've got some paint pots (new house & stony broke) that I was going to line with plastic, drill holes in and put soil in. Would I put all my basil seedlings (one side of an eggbox full) in a 2.5l tin or just one seedling? Alternatively I have a 15l tin, would they all go in there?

I cleared most of my front and back gardens last year - it was a 10 yr old jungle, and now have horsetail springing up (back) and couch grass (front). I'm not that worried about the front, as going to be doing some heavy duty work there shortly. However, don't have time/money to tackle the back yet. Thick black plastic hasn't worked so I was thinking of laying an offcut of carpet down. I heard it shouldn't be foam backed carpet. Now do I lay it pile side up or down - or doesn't it matter?

Apologies if these questions sound really daft!
Thanks - Al