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Growing any vegetables?
I am.
Runner beans, peas, potatoes, sweetcorn, spinach, courgettes, cucumbers, tomatoes, butternut squash, strawberries.
Keeps me in the sun and off the screen. |
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Tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, runner beans,courgettes, spring onions and lettuce. My peppers haven't germinated and neither have my pumpkins  .
We also have pears, apples plums, cherries and strawberries.
It keeps my nails filthy and stops me spending money on manicures  .
Do you grow flowers? |
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By (user no longer on site) 39 weeks ago
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Potatoes and tomatoes.
(Had strawberry and corn and carrots and beetroot sprouting from seed, but they withered away after the early stages..)
2 different varieties of apple trees should give fruit in a few months also. |
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"We're on heavy clay, root vegetables are quite difficult to grow. I'd love to grow carrots and onions but I just can't get the soil crumbly enough
Can you not make a raised bed ?"
We could but I think the cost outweighs the benefits when it comes to carrots and onions. |
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It's more the cost of the soil.
We do have a couple of small raised beds. I've turned one in to a rockery and the other is sitting empty at the moment because we put it in the wrong place and it's too shaded. |
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"It's more the cost of the soil.
We do have a couple of small raised beds. I've turned one in to a rockery and the other is sitting empty at the moment because we put it in the wrong place and it's too shaded. "
You have shade ? I have over 50 hostas in pots that need rehoming |
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"We're on heavy clay, root vegetables are quite difficult to grow. I'd love to grow carrots and onions but I just can't get the soil crumbly enough "
Carrots in tubs work well, sown in a sand/compost mix. Best as baby carrots in Autumn. |
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"It's more the cost of the soil.
We do have a couple of small raised beds. I've turned one in to a rockery and the other is sitting empty at the moment because we put it in the wrong place and it's too shaded.
You have shade ? I have over 50 hostas in pots that need rehoming "
I couldn't be responsible for keeping the slugs off them  |
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"It's more the cost of the soil.
We do have a couple of small raised beds. I've turned one in to a rockery and the other is sitting empty at the moment because we put it in the wrong place and it's too shaded.
You have shade ? I have over 50 hostas in pots that need rehoming
I couldn't be responsible for keeping the slugs off them "
It's all in the garlic, it's what hosta growers and showers use. Boil a couple of bulbs into a concentrate, then one tablespoonful to around 4 litres, and water them. All over the leaves and soil. Now, how many shall I ship you |
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By (user no longer on site) 39 weeks ago
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Reckon I'll get some tubs of salad leaves going. Saves a fortune on the shop bagged stuff.
Got frustrated with veg and our bizarre weather patterns these days. |
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By *nn_JamesCouple 39 weeks ago
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Chillies, Peppers, Cucumbers, Beetroot, Onions, Garlic, Cabbages, Carrots, Spring Onions, Lettuce, Leeks, Strawberrys and Tomatoes. |
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"We're on heavy clay, root vegetables are quite difficult to grow. I'd love to grow carrots and onions but I just can't get the soil crumbly enough
Carrots in tubs work well, sown in a sand/compost mix. Best as baby carrots in Autumn."
I have tried that previously. I tend to concentrate on things that are more expensive to buy if I'm going to get involved in growing in containers.
Despite swearing every year that I'm not growing anything in containers I always do but it's usually cucumbers, tomatoes and aubergines. Courgettes, runners, squash etc go in the ground |
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"Just tomatoes. I am also growing strawberries and the blackberry bushes were already here when i moved in. Massive crop last year so hopefully same this one."
I think tomatoes are one of the most worthwhile crops, for the taste alone |
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. It's my own fault I didn't realise how much she'd grown and that she could reach the plant 