Show Us Your Veg Patch

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Thought everyone would like to see our newly formed vegetable patch. Its only small but theres only 3 of us in the house so nothing bigger needed at the minute. It costs us about £50 to make and do including all the seeds and plants etc...

ps. its mr divadees shadow you can see in the bright sunshine

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• Hi there
  That looks lovely..and very neat n tidy...you have made a really good job
  just thought i would share how my veggies are coming along .its now know as my POTio aPOTment..as it seems to be growing
  not sure how the pics wil appear -but if they are small you can click on them to make them bigger.,,ooh and you will have to excuse the clutter in the corner -thats where i sit to pot stuff up so keep all my gubbins there
  there is still a lot to go out yet -but im so excited
  I also have 2 tent for growing melons and peppers/chillies in and the tubs with wigwams that more beans are climbing up
  can't wait to start fetching things in
  hope everyone elses veggies are coming along
• Nice idea for a thread - great to see your veggie plots. Good luck to all. I have a veg plot but can't post my pics yet because of techie probs
  Lesley
• Divadee, you've done a cracking job there.
  Mrsmcawber, I'll be very interested to see how yours comes along, I'm hoping to do a few veggies next year. Our garden is quite small (too small for a proper patch anyway) and it's very much the kids garden for playing.
  However, I do have a largish roof terrace which will be Ideal for a few veggie pots, I may test the water with a couple of tomato plants.
  Thanks for sharing your pictures.
• at the moment we have planted:-
  potatoes, first earlies and maincrop
  rhubarb (2 crowns donated by an elderly neighbour who was going to bin them)
  spring onions
  onions
  lettuce
  parsnips
  carrots
  beetroot
  tomatoes (in hanging baskets and pots)
  its not a bad lot for a first year of growing we will make mistakes i am sure and learn from them. I love the bark all round the patches it means its easy and soft to kneel on, and the bark was free as its play bark that we already had under our old climbing frame.
• Its lovely to see what everyone else is doing
  Mustafa... i have grown things in pots once before back in the UK..and i was amazed by the results... this is my 1st attempt out here and i must admit to going a bit crazy... im planting allsorts .. mostly in tubs.. as its army housing..although i have covered one bit of bumpy lawn with membrane and have planted out my butternut squash there..and courgettes will be joining later (if there is room )
  I will post pictures once everything is up and running.... im planning on keeping a note of how much produce i get off each variety so i can see if there are some things not worth bothering with next year (sad i know )-mind i have grown everything from seed so im keeping my fingers crossed
  the thing that has surprised me most so far are parsnips..my 1st attempt and in the last couple of days 50 have appeared
  Its going to be great to watch everyone elses veggies coming along..we will have to swap tips
• i will keep adding picture when i get more to show, at the moment my carrots look like grass, my lettuce are going mad and my potatoes are growing about an inch a day
• You've just inspired me to re jig a corner in my garden, which i was beginning to despair about. I was wondering if a slightly shady spot would be ok. The sun in summer is on it until midday, then moves around the back of the fence. The opposite corner will get the sun until about 6pm in summer, so equal times for both corners..any thoughts?
• Do I win a prize?
  Edit... would, have been funnier if I hadn't mislabelled the chilli and toms
• 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.
• Hello
  This my fruit and veg plot in my back garden here in sunny bedfordshire.
  I am currently growing runner beans, peas, carrots, potatoes spring greens, duchy cabbage.cauliflower, brocolli as well as my fruit i have strawberry, redcurrant, blackcurrant, jostaberry, sunberry, japanese wine berry, tayberry, red & green gooseberry, blueberry also peach, 2 plums, bramley,pear & cherry trees
  As you can see i grow my veg in car tyres or pots or even a old freezer and fridge.
  Cheers
  Brogusblue
• some great ideas brogusblue, thankyou.
• Ooo I shall have to take some pictures of mine when I get home. All the gardens looks amazing and Brogusblue has given me some great ideas.
  @ Brogusblue, What is growing in the water butt and how do the tyre pot containers work? Is it just two tyres with soil inside? and can I use any tyres or are certain ones required.
  For some reason I though tyres were toxic so have never tried it. (silly I know:rolleyes
• Hello
  In the old water butt is my strawberries 2 variety's what i did is drilled 110 holes in the butt stood the butt on a car tyre and rim place half a bag of shingle and also a black drain pipe drilled with lots of holes and fill with same mix as my tyres (make sure that you don't get any down the drain pipe) and plant the strawberries and for easy water all you do is fill the drain pipe with water everyday and it waters your strawberries for you.
  Car tyres i haven't had any ill effects yet bob flowerdew uses them so i have no problems first thing i did is wash the tyres with a disinfectant and left them for a couple days and then what i do is place one tyre half fill with pea single and fill the inside if the tyre with straw also do this this to the second tyre and stack on top and fill with a mixture of top soil (wickes 5 for Ј10) and spade of horse manure and compost mix well and fill the tyres up,
  If you are wondering about my fruit in coloured pots red is for redcurrant, blue for blackcurrant and blueberry and brown for gooseberry and jostaberry
  Cheers
  Brogusblue
• OK, here goes................
  this is what's going on in my garden at the moment:
  The tumbler tomatoes will be planted out in the next week or so after the frost risk has passed, they're flowering already.
  This is my raised bed, made from recycled fencing planks and wire donated from my Uncle. The wire is there to keep the dog out! We currently have in there potatoes, peas, onions, carrots, turnips, salad leaves, aubergines and two pots, one has leeks and the other spring onions. Excuse the mess in the background. I have started to dig out all the weeds to prepare the rest of the garden for planting but just haven't finished yet You can also see my composter in the background. This is one of two I got for free from my local council.
  This is my greenhouse. It is made entirely from recycled materials. The wood frame is old wood reused from inside our house and we have had to put lovely skirting board trimmings round the outside to stop the dog bouncing his ball off the plastic! Dad donated the plastic for the outside and the handle is an old one from my now defunct built in wardrobe! The pots on the wall have my herbs in. Chives, mint and fennel. One will be removed and refilled with the tumbler tomatoes in about a weeks time.
  This is the rack in the greenhouse. So far we have Spinach, courgette, french sorrel, aubergines, peas, kale, carrots, chillis and peppers.
• Hello
  arkonite_babe love the greenhouse looks easy to make i will bear this in mind as i need a small green house, The only thing is the plastic going to get brittle i suppose it would be easy thing to change.
  I have my toms out now they have been out for the last 2 weeks, Vegeplot looking great in this heat everything is shooting up.
  Cheers
  Brogusblue
• Hmmmm it won't accept my Gmail public album photographs.......
• You've all done incredibly well - I'm inspired now!
  I've always grown herbs in baskets on the wall in my garden (off the ground so our dear puss doesn't wee on them!) and last year tried tomatoes as well. This year I've added garlic to the list. I was worried that the novelty would wear off and I didn't want to run before I could walk. The plan is to add an extra crop each year, so next year I'm going to try potatoes as well.