My veggie plot - summer is coming!
05-06-2009, 12:36 AM
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Originally Posted by k3n
A friend of mine had a glut of beetroot last year and made chutney which was gorgeous! She gave me a couple of jars and I could eat it straight from the jar with a spoon! So I'm going to get her recipe!
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05-06-2009, 04:28 AM
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K, LOVE your garden! It is much larger than the one I have now. We had a huge (almost truck patch) at our other house. That thing worked me to death and then there are only 2 of us to eat it! I used to try to give away lots of things...that is until people started asking if I had stringed and snapped the beans, shelled the peas and shucked the corn! I mean....I DID grow it and pick it for them...want me to eat it for them too???
I love you tiles...(Early on, I use buckets and remove them during the day) Are those plastic bottles, like liter soda bottles with the bottoms cut off?? Great idea!
All of my garden is up and doing well too...I'll have to post.
I love you tiles...(Early on, I use buckets and remove them during the day) Are those plastic bottles, like liter soda bottles with the bottoms cut off?? Great idea!
All of my garden is up and doing well too...I'll have to post.
05-06-2009, 04:49 AM
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Thanks Patti -the main veg plot is about 30' x 40'; I have 5 beds of 20' x4', 3 x seed and salad beds of 6' x 4' and beds all around the edges for herbs, flowers and so on. The main beds are never wlked on and I just chuck compost on the top and let the worms drag it in; it was all double dug at the beginning and in theory never needs diging again - I like this method! Also means all the goodness is concentrated and I can plant much closer than usual - the tomatoes for eg are only a foot apart.
There is also an 'annexe' of around 25' x 40' divided into two large beds with a path up the middle and around the sides where I rotate potatoes one side and sweetcorn with courgette, pumpkins and squashes underneath. I too give a lot away and make gallons of soup for the freezer - courgette and pumpkin are special favourites! Non one's ever asked me to prepare the veg for them though- blooming cheek!
The plastic bottles are for watering - they'll also get my homemade nettle and comfrey soup once a week - a noxious brew but they thrive on it!
Here's some more pics!
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There is also an 'annexe' of around 25' x 40' divided into two large beds with a path up the middle and around the sides where I rotate potatoes one side and sweetcorn with courgette, pumpkins and squashes underneath. I too give a lot away and make gallons of soup for the freezer - courgette and pumpkin are special favourites! Non one's ever asked me to prepare the veg for them though- blooming cheek!
The plastic bottles are for watering - they'll also get my homemade nettle and comfrey soup once a week - a noxious brew but they thrive on it!
Here's some more pics!
K x
An arty shot, specially for you, Izy!
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The borage has seeded itself in the path - I'll have to pull it our when the strawberries are ready to pick - it's full if bees and Lily would be too scared to go there (on the other hand - good kid deterrent!)
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Barney watching the potatoes to see if they're growing yet!
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05-06-2009, 04:59 AM
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more! just skip by if I'm boring you!
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Compost being created! When it's full, I cover with a tarp to keep the heat in. Great fun on a frosty day to stick a pole in and watch it STEAM!
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Chives planted around carrots keep the carrot fly off! And look pretty too! I don't eat these, I have more elsewhere that aren't allowed to flower, that I cut for cooking.
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For the real gardeners - compost after a year!
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05-06-2009, 05:09 AM
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Oops, guess I spilled some seeds when I was sowing!
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And now the lizard ladders are all in place so no more kamikaze reptiles!
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Sowed some wildflower seeds here that Izy sent me - hopefully a prettier pic to post later! And yes, MORE borage! It gets everywhere!
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05-06-2009, 05:25 AM
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Here's my mini greenhouse - I sowed butternut, pumpkin and sweetcorn today; above are the pepper plants, waiting to go out and a stray tomato seedling that I have to find a home for when it's a bit bigger!
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This is poached egg plant that I sowed 3 years ago under the gooseberries - it keeps sawfly away and attracts pollinating insects - trouble is it's now threatening world domination! Pretty though.
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Leeks, cabbages, broccoli and calabrese seedlings under another mini greenhouse - I don't have a proper one, it's not really necessary here.
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05-06-2009, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Bill'sBonBon
I am jealous, My DH has been layed up with foot surgery and is behind by a month on our garden. But in another week he will be fine and will be getting tomatoes,peas,limas,squash,cucumbers and I don't know what all. Can't hardly stand store bought tomatoes and cucumbers. I will post pictures as soon as he gets it going. For most of my life we had a winter garden in south Florida. Now in Georgia it is a summer one. :D :D Don't matter as long as I have one.
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If you weren't in Jaw-ja, I'd go snitch me a mater or two and maybe a cucumber...and is that summer squash? don't feel like shelling peas right now...they make me swell any who, lol..awww, fresh veggies, yum!
K, had to come back to thread. I have to say, your veggie garden is just pretty! Must be a joy to work in, with the flowers, don't care if some call them weeds, they add pizzazz...i'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch...can you tell i been a good girl and taking my iron everyday, like doc said...still salivating over that eggplant dish you described...i love me some mozzarella!!! :D
05-06-2009, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by k3n
Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
I love the little houses! Everything looks so neat. You must weed every few days, to keep it like that. Makes me think of gnome homes :wink:
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05-06-2009, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by k3n
Yes it really is! Every time a seed comes up, it's like a little miracle! I sowed a long row of beetroot yesterday - my beds are 20' long and 4' wide (so I never have to walk on them!) A friend of mine had a glut of beetroot last year and made chutney which was gorgeous! She gave me a couple of jars and I could eat it straight from the jar with a spoon! So I'm going to get her recipe!
Today, I'm going to sow my courgette, butternut squash, pumpkin and sweetcorn in pots. I'm a bit late with it but better late than never, and we usually have a long, sunny autumn here so things ripen well late in the year.
For your carrots, you could make soup - delicious with coriander! I struggle to grow that for leaves, it just bolts even in the shade!
K x
Today, I'm going to sow my courgette, butternut squash, pumpkin and sweetcorn in pots. I'm a bit late with it but better late than never, and we usually have a long, sunny autumn here so things ripen well late in the year.
For your carrots, you could make soup - delicious with coriander! I struggle to grow that for leaves, it just bolts even in the shade!
K x
beetroot chutney, right out of the jar with a spoon...don't care for any chutney that I have come across,...well, never would taste it, lol...but that's ok...I have food allergies...but curious...is the beetroot chutney, sweet, sour...salty? Thinking you really like a lot of different foods. That's why you got that cute figger,...that and you never sit still for long, lol! :D
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