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

MRSMCAWBER

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Oh my word rhiwfield..

Can I come and live with you ... I love your plot -now THAT is what I want if we can ever afford to move to a house with a bigger garden once back in the UK ..... I won't take up much space, Im very quiet and I love cooking *fluttering eyelashes*



I came on here to show how sad I am -I have just popped out in the rain to see what is hapening and since this afternoon -I have gained:-

1. another 20 peas
2. 14 beans of various sorts
3. 6 sweetcorn -about 1" tall and they weren't there at lunch time :rotfl:

I guess they are enjoying the humid and damp weather we seem to have :THubby thinks Im on the verge of naming every seedling Im out there that often
Im going to sit and admire rhiwfields plot now

Have just spotted that little house on the terraced area..I could live there you would never know I was even there;)

Lotus-eater

rhiwfield, that looks amazing.

angelavdavis

Lovely garden rhiwfield. Mine is never that tidy!

rhiwfield

Thanks Lotus-Eater, but though the design seems to work well I'm still very much learning how best to grow different crops, intercrop and how to beat (or live with) mealy aphid, slugs, changing soil ph etc. After a break of 20 years I started to grow veg seriously again 4 years back and am still very much learning by my mistakes.

Mrs M, *deep sigh* what can I say, I love cooking too, (could this be a source of conflict?) especially for my oh and ds2, and dd1, dd2 and ds1 when they visit, and the 3 gds (soon 4?) who might not appreciate gf's new friend moving into their house . Some things were perhaps never meant to be, even though you obviously have very green fingers . Remember, when talking about a garden, its not size that matters, its what you do with it

Angela, garden was neglected for 6 months from last August while we sorted out 5 ground floor rooms ruined by an underfloor leak. You should have seen the weeds before we started to get back on track in early March! Still, its looking better now, though would like some calmer weather to allow veg and ornamental plantings to establish in these and the other areas that we've changed

thanks all,

rhiwfield

TheBees

What a frustrating wet, windy weekend!

I too feel very protective of my tomato plants which are currently being hardened off. I forgot to bring them in on Friday night and worried about them when I realised. DH said they'd probably be knocking on the patio doors asking to come in!:rotfl:

Sadly it looks like the wind has badly damaged 2 of my cucumber plants that were also being hardened off. :mad:The leaves were literaly blown off - so tonight I've planted 4 new seeds in the lounge window which I hope will grow quickly.

On the underside of my potato plant leaves it looks like I've got aphids. Any ideas to eradicate?

Lets hope the sun comes out so my tomatoes can finally get planted outside in their growbag.:j

brogusblue

Hello

I have moved my veg plot around and i have been busy redeigning the whole garden..

So this is veg at moment just a couple of things to move around when the season is over.












Cheers
Brogusblue

PhilCCFC

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hathor

The Bees: I've been doing reasonably well just squirting the aphids off with a spray of water & washing up liquid, only a few drops of the latter. I spray with one hand and wipe/crush the little blighters with the other, leaf by leaf. I had aphids on my broad beans, and after a couple of days of the above - I went back in case I'd missed any or they'd climbed back, they seem to have gone. I now patrol all the pots in case of further infestation, and have my trusty laundry spray gun on standby.

TheBees

Thanks Hathor
I'll be trying the washing up liquid treatment in the next couple of days.:D

SuzieMum

I just took some pic today and this is my produce so far! Feel so proud of the pepper plants! I cannot work out how to embed them sorry.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35400984@N04/3545565827/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35400984@N04/3546388046/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35400984@N04/3545585155/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35400984@N04/3546372406/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35400984@N04/3546425074/?edited=1

Loving everyones photos!