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Post by random on Aug 4, 2015 9:20:04 GMT
Here is your postcard.... What are you sowing at this time of year and roughly where are you, geographically? I am in the south west of the UK and, although we are in the middle of a 2 day (!) heatwave, I am already feeling the winter blues as it seems there is very little time left to sow and plant. I have salad leaves seeds and am thinking there may just be time for a few radishes, spring onions and maybe beetroot? Answer on a postcard? Live in SE London. Garden is rather shaded, partly because of some rather large trees which need a servere haircut/ felling. We have a concreted front garden which gets a lot more light so we have some containers out there. I have some "purple frills" www.organiccatalogue.com/p3462/MUSTARD-GREENS-Purple-Frills/product_info.html that did quite well last year. Some rocket that was collected from a community garden (I picked up an envelope at a seed sharing event). Last year I tried broccoli. Planted some plants around May and overwintered. But some pests got them. I dont thimk they were really worth the bed allocation (sounds like I am being a hospital manager!). Later in the month we will sow some seeds for overwintering. OH is better at the planning side than me. Salads give closer to instant results!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2015 13:35:04 GMT
Ooh, you have much more interesting salad than me! The only seeds I have been able to procure recently are a dubious "mixed salad leaves" packet from a cheap hardware store in the next village. I tried broccoli, cabbage and sprouts one year. I constructed an awesome net cage to protect them from moths. Nobody told me that the moths actually grow from the fecking grubs that were already lying in stealth positions inside the cage, waiting to eat every last speck of green-ness as it grew!
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Post by contrarymary on Aug 4, 2015 19:23:12 GMT
ooo ooo gardeners i've grown tomatoes and peppers in pots this year, alongside lavender and herbs. they're on the raised patio bit above my wild front garden, which has a fine crop of grass, wildflowers and rosehips. tho the most successful front garden growers this year have been grasshoppers and butterflies, esp gatekeepers and small heath of which there are dozens. at the back i have grown somemore herbs alongside my enormously wild back garden, which has a fine crop of blackberries and elderberries. (my friend and i picked 1kg of blackberries yesterday in about 20 mins) the main growers out back this year have been sparrows - they have had 3 or 4 lots of fledglings and are now a big flock that often sub-divides into two lots of 20-something birds. and a few nested pairs of blue tits and great tits, robins & dunnocks, with 4 blackbirds, 3 woodpigeons and a mistlethrush. and a lot of butterflies - mostly brimstone, common blue and white, with the odd fritillary, admiral or peacock. plus one fox cub (resident since birth) and the occasional dragonfly. luckily most of them thrive on low maintenance and forgetfulness (aka "rewilding") plus fresh water. a very satisfactory crop
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Post by Mouse on Aug 9, 2015 21:23:14 GMT
I am not growing anything at the moment. At my last house I had four vegetable beds 6 x 3 feet and a few pots. But over the last four years I grew less and less as other interests took over and I was not often home at weekends. I plan to have a couple of raised veg beds in this new garden.
The garden currently has no flower beds in it at all and is covered in v patchy weedy mossy stuff with remnants of grass. I don't have any garden at all at the front but a large garden at the back. There is also a patch of wild land to the side on the other side of the fence and I plan to clear a bit of it and grow fruit in there!! Guerrilla gardening out of sight!
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