Peas and flower beds
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Flower bed and potatoes.
My allotment plot is on a site with 40 other plots.
Very impressive, terriculture! I love your mixture of flowers and veggies, too.
What's under the green netting, and why?
Thank you greenhouse_gal!
There are round cabbages and cauliflowers under the netting, it's to keep the birds off!
Pointed cabbage and Broccoli also covered. We get alot of pigeons around!
The lettuce grows ok, the birds don't seem to go for it!
Most impressive terriculture. I bet a weed wouldn't even think of trying to grow in your plot. It's really strange to me to see summer and winter crops growing so well side by side. It's impossible here but inspiring none the less. You've really got so much packed in there and all apparently doing well. Great job.
Thank you twiggybuds.
I'm growing most of the veggies here for the first time, and some are planted too close together no doubt, oops!
but hopefully there will be food to eat.
woooooooooooww! looks great!
How big is your allotment?
We started a community garden this year. It's coming along, but it doesn't look nearly as nice as yours. The soil isn't very fertile, and some people aren't very committed to weeding. Our plots (allotments) are 1.5 by 6 meters.
Here's our pumpkin patch just after we planted it. (I need to go out and get another shot now that the pumpkin plants are growing.) The patch is around 475 square meters (if I did the conversion right.) The plan is to grow a pumpkin for each of the 300 kids at the school next to the garden.
They all are very impressive. This is our first year growing vegetables in Raised Beds like this. Ihave a cottage garden done in a raised bed too, but oh my the weeds are having a hey day . They got a toe hold while I was ill and unable to work it. But reclamation is now an ongoing project.
The blank space you see is where we finished pulling out our beets and carrots. and now preparing it for something else.
We intend to add more raised beds in 2010.
Pineview, for a first time raised bed gardener that looks great! What are you planning to plant in the empty spaces? I have to pull my peas and am trying to decide what to do with that area. Maybe just cover it with plastic or cardboard to prevent weeds and just let it go fallow....
Okay - the camera has arrived - now I just need a college education to understand the instructions! I thought the last camea I owned was complicated - that one was a walk-in-the-park compared to this one. Will study the book this weekend after I sow my fall vegetable seeds.
WNYwilleeB - here's a tip that might help with your greenhouse.
When I was child we had a small lean-to type greenhouse, and my mom would paint the outside of the glass with whitewash to keep the light low until the seedlings got a good start. As it rained, the whitewash would be washed away until the glass was clear again. By then the little seedlings were ready to be transplanted into the garden. I think the "whitewash" was some kind of lime, 'cause she said it would "do the garden good"
Yay! Looking forward to your pictures. Yep, most cameras have so many features that it takes forever just to go through and learn them. You should be able to put it on Auto, though, to take some quick point-and-shoot shots. Install the software that came with it, and it should upload your pictures without too much hassle. Let me know if you get stuck on something. I've owned three digital cameras and I've read several books on using them (for work), so I'm getting a feel for how a lot of them work.
I finally have a photo to share! I'm at home on AOL dial-up - usually I visit y'all during my lunch hour at work. You can't make out much from this one photo - so I'll get some more uploaded.
P.S. That's NOT my house in the background!
Looks really pretty, and SO neat! What's growing there?
Tomatoes with some strawberries in front, and beans in the back - I also have asparagus, cucumbers, carrots and melons.
Ya'll have some beautiful gardens. I like close ups, but really enjoy seeing the long shots, like a garden magazine, only better because I know these are your gardens. My garden doesn't really qualify as a veggie garden. It has only an onion from the grocery store that flowered (see it sprawling all over in foreground) and some kind of squash (the only one that hasn't been killed by the squash bugs). This is my second year gardening in Virginia and in the earth. I've always been pretty much a container gardener in FL. Next year I intend to have more beds and more things in the ground instead of relying on containers so much. As you can see, my containers are also serving as pedastals for other containers. I took this a couple days ago after the farmer had cut the meadow and taken away the hay bales. My garden needs some structure--trees and hardscape and verticality.
Very nice, honeybee. Looks like you spend a lot of time working in the garden.
Good start, pam. I love the colors. I can see you having a really nice potager next year.
Sorry to reply late... Dividedsky Thank you! I think my plot is about 30m x 5m roughly!
Here's what it looked like at the beginning of May before planting , you can see the design better.
Terriculture, thanks for that photo! It certainly puts your garden in context. How lovely, and what a great idea, to have plots offered like that. Do you rent them or is it a neighborhood amenity? It must be fun to have other gardeners around, too.
Greenhouse_gal, The plots are rented,, they are all slightly different sizes, mine is £20,00 for the year.
This is my third year on site, I took over a plot which had been neglected and looked like this! It took me a year to clear all the weeds,nettles and grass lol. It's great having all the other gardeners around, especially when they offer their spares and advice! I like to see how they plant their veggies, some have had their plots for over 20 years.
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Terriculture, so that would be about $32 here? What a bargain, but it does look like you had to do a huge amount of work to get it into shape. Gardening with others must be really neat, especially, as you say, if they have spares AND advice.
There was alot of clearing to do! There is no electricity on site, just me and the spade!
Now that I have it manageable and veggies growing, it's so enjoyable to go there and tend to it.
Oh Thanks Taynors!
Hey terriculture, how far do you have to go to get to your plots? I'm afraid mine would be neglected if I couldn't get to it easily. I walk out to the garden a minimum of 4-5 times a day to weed, harvest or just to look , relax & get peace of mind.
All the pics are great. Here is mine, not a great picture but it gives you the long view.
Before...
After...
Hi Sujo16, What a lovely design and beautifully planted!
The allotment is about half an hour walk from my house, but very close to where I work, so I tend to go there in my lunch hour and after work for a couple of hours. I have my 'den' at the top to relax in and get peace of mind!
Thanks T. I love the Alice In Wonderland cup & saucer!I believe I would add a couple of folding lounge chairs and a cooler for some Bass Ale. (Funny thing is, when we were in England most of the pubs didn't carry it, only Budweiser, Budlight and Miller.)
I have some chairs in the shed! and a camping stove and kettle, come over and have a cuppa anytime.. lol.
I don't like beer, but a cooler and some Bass ale could be arranged!
Looks great, way over there, terriculture!!! Thanks for chiming in! You've certainly turned that plot around in fine fashion!
I am certain all the neighbor gardeners there are beyond happy to not have that old, eye-sore-of-a-weed-spreading, neglected plot throwing all those weed seeds on their tended corners!
That's one pumpkin patch, Dividedsky!! I was pleasantly surprised to find a pumpkin patch volunteering for me this year. I happened to have a carving pumpkin that I did not get to use, this past halloween. Long story short, I put it out in a back corner of the yard to sit until I could get it out back, into the compost and promptly forgot about it. Went to rake the leaves in that back corner this spring, and lookie lookie, pumpkin seedlings already sprouting up! See photo attached!
Best success for HUGE pumpkins for the kids!
PineViewPlanter! Nice! What a great space .... loving the winding road. Looks like you have plenty of space for some nice growing!! Congrats on a job well done! Can't wait to see what you add!
Yay! HoneyBee!! Nice to see your photos, and have had your camera arrive so timely!! Grandmom would whitewash the sunporch every spring. I think she would use lime, chalk, water and eggwhites .... or something like that.
Depending on how you look at it, when the windows were installed on the roof of my GH, the installers apparently, somehow broke the seals on several of the panes, either twisting them, or bending them, I think. Anyway, about 10 years later, several started to fog between the glazing, and now 20 years later, many have turned white, as if white washed. At first I was very "not happy" but now, it does provide much needed protection from the burning sun! However, I can no longer look out the windows and see the yard and beyond from my office upstairs.
Your gardens are very neat, HoneyBee! Well worth the wait, plus, now I am curious to see how your melons do. I planted cantaloupe, and they have been slow to take off ....
Your view is amazing, PamGarden! You already have a lot to work with! I am curious to see how you develop things! The onion looks great in there!
Taynors, like seeing a clever use for left-overs! Very nice set-up .... liking the 5th wheel back there, too!
Sujo! Awesome job! I can't wait until I have grass like that!! But, with two dogs, I think I am doomed to dirt paths!! You have done a great job on the garden spaces. Everything's so crisp and clean and tidy! How long have they been established??
As a matter of fact.....my girlfriends come over after hours to drink wine and howl at the moon (figuratively.)
Thanks WNYWillieB for the props. The veggie garden was born last March believe it or not. What can I say, Type A individual. By the way, you've got a question on the water garden forum.
Terriculture...that's my girl!!
I don't believe you!!! ^_^ Only one year??!!!?? That's some mighty fine tending, Sujo!!
Thanks for the heads-up, too! I found it and have replied!
Hey, Sujo--are the bricks in your raised beds simply stacked, or does something hold them together? I love the look of them.
Thanks WNYwillieB!
Sujo, lettuce take your order!
This is my first cucumber, funny shape!! the skin was a bit tough, did I leave it on the plant too long?
