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By *rown_Bread78 OP   Man
over a year ago

Windsor

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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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

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 *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

Yes, another season down the allotments. I grow a wide selection of fruit + veg, but try something different every year. This year sweetcorn for first time.

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By *reshkicksWoman
over a year ago

Chichester

My rhubarb is doing amazingly this year. I put it in mushroom compost and is sprouting like the clappers

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Only Tom's this year! But lots of flowers x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *mmaleiaWoman
over a year ago

Trowbridge

Beets, carrots, baby corn, corn, butternut squashes, pumpkins, & peas so far in the allotment

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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 ?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can use the wood from pallets. A bit of a fight to pull them apart I admit. Google free pallets near me.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

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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By *ambertMan
over a year ago

Cheltenham

Only myself

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore


"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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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Using the greenhouse for first time in years. Forgotten how much fun it is

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Live in a flat but gonna try and grow ginger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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)
over a year ago

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
over a year ago

East Berks / South Bucks

Chillies, Peppers, Cucumbers, Beetroot, Onions, Garlic, Cabbages, Carrots, Spring Onions, Lettuce, Leeks, Strawberrys and Tomatoes.

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By * and R cple4Couple
over a year ago

swansea

It's a fairly new thing for me but I'm enjoying it I've started off small by growing things for my tortoises to eat..

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"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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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"It's a fairly new thing for me but I'm enjoying it I've started off small by growing things for my tortoises to eat.. "

Same!

What tortoises do you have?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

^^ we left all the dandelions on the veg patch for ours.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like how you’ve also grown your beard OP

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"^^ we left all the dandelions on the vag patch for ours. "

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"^^ we left all the dandelions on the vag patch for ours.

"

. Don't knock it Rex. It's the new vajazzle

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

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.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"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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By * and R cple4Couple
over a year ago

swansea


"^^ we left all the dandelions on the veg patch for ours. "
same.. I do like the wild garden look it more or less takes care of itself..

We have 2 western Herman's .

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"^^ we left all the dandelions on the veg patch for ours. same.. I do like the wild garden look it more or less takes care of itself..

We have 2 western Herman's ."

I have a female red foot. She's a delight but I left her unattended in the greenhouse and she ate clean through the stalk of one of my cucumbers and demolished the lot . It's my own fault I didn't realise how much she'd grown and that she could reach the plant

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Runner beans and tomatoes

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Tomatoes, Aubergines, Cucumbers

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