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"Anyone grow vegetables, fruit, chillis etc
Describe your little peace of heaven (whether it be an allotment or a chilli plant on a shelf)
What are you growing this year"
I know a few with a attic garden, growing cheese
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Herbs are the thing I grow the most. Got some parsley, rosemary, oregano, mint and thyme all doing really well at the moment.
Planted some courgette seeds the other day, but they don't seem to want to germinate the lazy sods. |
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We've got three apple trees, plum, pear and cherry. I've got courgettes, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, runner beans, spring onions etc coming along in the green house. The strawberry and raspberries seem to have all died off  . There are quite a few herbs and I've forgotten what they are except the parsley |
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We haven't planted any seeds yet, but we do still have a mini apple tree, gooseberry bushes, redcurrants, blueberries and strawberries. We always end up with more gooseberries and redcurrants than we know what to do with, and the birds always steal all the blueberries  |
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"Mr N just reminded me about the grape vine. We make gallons of wine every year from it"
My dad had a grape vine for a few years when I was little. We got tiny grapes once, but not good enough to do anything with. He got rid of it eventually. What's your secret? |
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"Mr N just reminded me about the grape vine. We make gallons of wine every year from it
Lol your not millionaires are you with a vineyard
 I wish. We did have to buy a grape press though "
Lol couldn’t you stomp on them with bare feet |
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"Mr N just reminded me about the grape vine. We make gallons of wine every year from it
My dad had a grape vine for a few years when I was little. We got tiny grapes once, but not good enough to do anything with. He got rid of it eventually. What's your secret? "
I wish I knew. Our garden does seem to have a microclimate all of its own. We bought a vine around five years ago put it in the ground to grow over the pergola and just left it. We do give it a bucket if water every day in the summer. Last year we got around 4/500 large bunches and made around 12 gallons of wine. The left over grapes were composted. We normally eat a load but they weren't sweet enough last year. |
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"Mr N just reminded me about the grape vine. We make gallons of wine every year from it
Lol your not millionaires are you with a vineyard
I wish. We did have to buy a grape press though
Lol couldn’t you stomp on them with bare feet "
It nearly came too that. |
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"We haven't planted any seeds yet, but we do still have a mini apple tree, gooseberry bushes, redcurrants, blueberries and strawberries. We always end up with more gooseberries and redcurrants than we know what to do with, and the birds always steal all the blueberries "
You're lucky to be able to grow blueberries I've never had any success |
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"We haven't planted any seeds yet, but we do still have a mini apple tree, gooseberry bushes, redcurrants, blueberries and strawberries. We always end up with more gooseberries and redcurrants than we know what to do with, and the birds always steal all the blueberries
You're lucky to be able to grow blueberries I've never had any success "
I don't take enough care of them really. I need to feed them properly. My dad has the 2 biggest blueberry bushes ever and gets so many it's insane. The birds don't touch his, but they do eat all his gooseberries. It's odd as my gooseberries are left untouched. |
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"We haven't planted any seeds yet, but we do still have a mini apple tree, gooseberry bushes, redcurrants, blueberries and strawberries. We always end up with more gooseberries and redcurrants than we know what to do with, and the birds always steal all the blueberries
You're lucky to be able to grow blueberries I've never had any success
I don't take enough care of them really. I need to feed them properly. My dad has the 2 biggest blueberry bushes ever and gets so many it's insane. The birds don't touch his, but they do eat all his gooseberries. It's odd as my gooseberries are left untouched."
The birds are all our figs last year (another thing I'd forgotten about ). They literally left the outer skin on the tree. Other years they haven't touched them. |
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Have onions garlic salads and spinach in the tunnel with leeks onions tomatoes beetroot and spinach and salads in trays ready to go in the ground if it ever stops raining. Have 2 apples trees also which are delicious and red and black currants bushed. Nom |
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We have gooseberries, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries starting to show signs of life 
We used to grow a lot of our own veg (potatoes, leeks, beetroot, carrots, onions, French beans, runner beans, broad beans, kale and sweetcorn), but we moved house and we haven't got an allotment, yet!
 gardening
Very therapeutic |
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By *hrimper36Couple 26 weeks ago
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Just peeping the veg patch now but we will have Navets onions of different colors potatoes French beans butternut carrots courgettes melon strawberries figs and assorted herbs and eggs from the duck goose and chickens.
Country living is great.
T |
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I planted quite a lot a good few weeks back and completely forgotten what more than half them are but I know there was thyme, a chocolate pepper and carrots for sure,
wee dude was excited for plotting the chocolate pepper think he'll be disappointed once it's grown |
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By (user no longer on site) 26 weeks ago
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Grow a load here: Tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, broccoli, kale, lettuce, jalapeños, cabbage, corn, onions, pumpkins, watermelon (trying for the 1st time this year), strawberries, raspberries, blueberry’s and have herbs and a few apple trees too.
Nothing like grabbing your own food fresh from the garden  |
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The birds don't touch his, but they do eat all his gooseberries. It's odd as my gooseberries are left untouched.
Bleurrgh - gooseberries devil plant"
I love them. Especially slightly unripe when still really tart |
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The birds don't touch his, but they do eat all his gooseberries. It's odd as my gooseberries are left untouched.
Bleurrgh - gooseberries devil plant
I love them. Especially slightly unripe when still really tart "
Your poor anus. |
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By *eliWoman 25 weeks ago
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"We grow a *lot* of stuff.
It’s early in the year yet, but I’m already harvesting wild garlic, parsley, chives, lovage and asparagus. "
Yay! Scotland has finally caught up and you can bask in the gloriousness of wild garlic.
My idea of heaven would be my grandparents land. It's beautiful. I lived there for six years - there were plum and apple trees. Various herbs in the herb garden. We created a veg patch during my first month there and would grow runner beans, courgettes, potatoes, a myriad of things. My grandma taught me how to pluck and prepare pheasant, when sloes were ready, all the things a good country girl should know. :D
I want to start growing things again but I like the wild cottage garden look too much (yay bees and laziness). |
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"Yay! Scotland has finally caught up and you can bask in the gloriousness of wild garlic."
Yep! I’ve made focaccia filled with wild garlic pesto, and I’ve been tearing and scattering handfuls of leaves over chicken thighs with lemon and potatoes. It’s glorious stuff. |
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I used to have an allotment, but it was a lot of work and i could never keep up though the gluts of produce.
Now i tend to focus on globe artichokes, raspberries, strawberries, peas, rocket, courgettes, tomatoes, rhubarb + herbs (parsley, basil, rosemary, chives, thyme +mint). Sometimes i grow potatoes (pink fir apple, or Charlotte)
I also grow edible flowers for salads - viola, pansies, nasturtiums etc |
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