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Post by lily on Jun 5, 2009 19:13:23 GMT
Instead of flowers we have veggie borders (mostly!) this first pic is shrubs we let go wild - the white flowers end up as yellow berries and the birds love them. We don't have room for a greenhouse, but this walk in is ideal. On from there is our Xmas tree (will be it's 4th Xmas this year!), some spuds - International Kidney as we don't live in Jersey! A pot of horeradish follows with the compost bin in the corner and some more spuds in the barrellThe first lettuce, then tomatoes, chillies, runner beans with a couple of giant sunflowers at the back that will appear above at some point!'Home made' bird table (note the chimney!) and bath! Forsythia at the end left for birdies too. Garlic in front of it.Sweetcorn, lettuce (nothing under the green thing, it's just there!), a pot of carrots and some peas.Under the cold frame is Cavelo Nero - the netting is there just to keep the cabbage white off! Then my herb bit, oregano, basil, thyme, sage, chives and rosemary. Also sweet peas that should be lovely in red and white.The table to the right is used for potting up etc, the one under the brollies for a well earned glass of wine!!!Hope I haven't bored you all to death!
xxx
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Post by sarah on Jun 5, 2009 21:10:06 GMT
haha not at all thankyou *shudders* at the thought of my garden, still I like to my bit for wildlife (my excuse for a bit of a hungle out there) xx
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Post by clarevoyant on Jun 7, 2009 8:44:31 GMT
looks lovely Lily, I'll be round for dinner later!
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Post by Tigger on Jun 7, 2009 15:11:49 GMT
What a splendid garden My favourite bits are the potatoes and the green bit that is 'just there'
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Post by Fi on Jun 7, 2009 17:49:11 GMT
OK Lily - where are the lilies???
Seriously though, it's great. Is this your first time growing cavolo nero? If not then you'll know this already, but it's absolutely the best of the kales - the flavour's not too strong, and it's still fit to eat after being frozen solid, several times over, and will continue producing leaves into the next spring.
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Post by lily on Jun 7, 2009 20:58:31 GMT
OK Lily - where are the lilies???
Seriously though, it's great. Is this your first time growing cavolo nero? If not then you'll know this already, but it's absolutely the best of the kales - the flavour's not too strong, and it's still fit to eat after being frozen solid, several times over, and will continue producing leaves into the next spring. Fi, have eaten it from farmers market before and love it but it is the first time we've grown it. We've only got room for 4 plants. Do you think we can pick leaves from all of them and they'll keep coming or should we sow some more for later in the year?
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Post by Fi on Jun 7, 2009 23:21:57 GMT
OK Lily - where are the lilies???
Seriously though, it's great. Is this your first time growing cavolo nero? If not then you'll know this already, but it's absolutely the best of the kales - the flavour's not too strong, and it's still fit to eat after being frozen solid, several times over, and will continue producing leaves into the next spring. Fi, have eaten it from farmers market before and love it but it is the first time we've grown it. We've only got room for 4 plants. Do you think we can pick leaves from all of them and they'll keep coming or should we sow some more for later in the year?
xxx Obviously that depends upon how often you want to eat it. We used to have about 8 plants which we'd take leaves from maybe once a month. However, where we were living, the winters were very cold - a fortnight of temperatures at or below minus 20 degrees was normal, plus the daylight hours between November and February were about 8 hours a day or less - and we didn't provide any shelter for them. The only time they got that was when it snowed. Your plants will do very much better, but only experience will show how much. If you're not growing anything else in your garden during winter, I'd put some more in the spare ground. If you get too much crop, you can always give it away. What I like is that it's a pretty low maintenance plant (even cabbage white butterflies seem to prefer other brassicas, so picking off the caterpillars takes little, if any, time), but is a guaranteed source of fresh greens, regardless of the weather. What amazed me was that, even if the plant was frozen solid, so that the leaves cracked if we bent them, those same leaves remained green and edible once a thaw set in.
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Post by Peek on Jun 8, 2009 8:39:43 GMT
Great pics Lily, thanks...it's amazing just how much of your own veggie you can grow in a limited space ( hope you don't mind me saying that, your garden looks about the same size as ours actually).
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Post by tigerlily on Jun 8, 2009 11:04:35 GMT
I want to try growing spuds next year! I'm inspired, now.
Our back garden is a mix of fruits and veggies and flowers, but I do want to put a bed in on the right hand side where it's sunnier to grow root veggies. My carrots aren't doing so well because they're very much in the shade.
As the grass isn't at all good out the back, we might as well root most of it out and devote the space to veggies instead!
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Post by scoo on Jun 20, 2009 15:33:03 GMT
We grew mainly spuds last year, at least 5 different varieties. PMS thought he'd dug them all up, but a few got missed, (them sprouting gave the game away) so he decided to grow the spuds in builders bags this year. There are spuds growing all over the garden still, I haven't earthed them up, so I don't know if i'll get any. I have concentrated on growing tomatoes, and lettuces. Not forgetting the runner beans, and the aubergine, chilli pepper and courgettes I got from the garden centre.
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