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Posts: 5117 (09/06/2008 20:01:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None My veg plot is nearly ready for planting! Got my seed tatties all ready, the onion set, spring onions. Lettuce, tomatoes, waiting on broccolli. and as for my wee orchard! I have some FEIJOA tree seeds on order (fell in love with that when my son sent me a picture of the one in his garden) oooh and some Chinese Gooseberrys (the wee golden orangey coloured ones that look as if they are wrapped in tissue paper) Sad really isnt it Found something called Jersey Kale (of the cabbage family) and the leaves are at the top of the stalk - which can grow to SIX FOOT tall. You can cut the stalks, dry them out and make walking sticks with them,
katrina		#1	[-]
Posts: 13475 (09/06/2008 20:04:19) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	ooh green fingered she katrina x
doreenj2908		#2	[-]
Posts: 4263 (09/06/2008 20:06:26) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	How exciting, She; keep us informed of all your produce!!! Just watch out for chickens!!!! DD found some of her veggies were being eaten, and then saw a neighbour's chickens having a feast!!! She was not impressed!! Doreen
Twinplums		#3	[-]
Posts: 2077 (09/06/2008 20:08:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	She, I will be comi ng to you for advice. We are third on the allotment list after waiting over 18 months so far. Hopefully there will be one for us by the summer holidays so that we can spend it sorting it out. Sarah xxx
murchison		#4	[-]
Posts: 5284 (09/06/2008 20:08:18) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	sounds wonderful sheila i have a little orchard in my garden hope you get loads to freeze for the winter
Anne06		#5	[-]
Posts: 3721 (09/06/2008 20:10:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Wishing you loads of Luck with your veggie plot She ... I promised myself last year id have another wee bit done in my garden but my hubby still isnt well enough to help so i,ll have to waait another wee while but ive got a huge garden thats just begging for some veggies at the moment ive two wee cherry tomato plants coming on a wee treat and i bought a cherry and apple tree from Morrison,s last year,they are very reasonable for fruit tree,s here are some pics lol Hugs Anne xxxxxxx Last Edited By: Anne06 09/06/2008 20:15:44. Edited 1 times.
jellibeen23		#6	[-]
Posts: 30 (09/06/2008 20:14:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	We have runner beens creeping up poles, radishes, lettice and cue cumbers coming on quite nicely. French beans which have a pretty purpley blue flower. All my herbs are now in the garden and am about to start more off. Oh dont you just love this time of year.
She Wray		#7	[-]
Posts: 5117 (09/06/2008 20:14:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	When was a bairn I begged my mammy and daddy to get an apple tree for the garden. My godparents (who lived next door had one) but they refused. There was one here when we moved in (Paul 'pruned' it) but its now got loads of new leaves on it. I was given a plum tree and we bought a pear tree. We have loads of strawberries and some brambles , but best of all some rhubarb. When the sheds are built I am getting a wee greenhouse to grow the more exotic things . Have asked my son to send over some packets of native Aussie seeds so I can have something a wee bit different in the front garden lol . Now we have just shoved stuff in the front this year to fill the spaces, but next year - well! We are going to do the St George and St Andrews crosses there - think it will be very eyecatching so stay tuned!!!!!!
cardcrow		#8	[-]
Posts: 207 (09/06/2008 20:16:03) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Oh She, you really made me long back to our own garden in Sweden. That's one thing I miss staying over here, my own veg plot, the last two years nobody grown anything in our garden back home - but my parents have harvested loads of asparagus so next year my husbands says that none except him are gone have some. I've already decided that the first thing I will do coming back home in August is to put radish and rocket seed in the ground so we have some fresh veg this year from our own plot. Then later we do have the plums, pears and loads of apples - it's gone be a fest on fruit all autumn. Karin xx
Tina		#9	[-]
Posts: 29924 (09/06/2008 20:47:00) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Sounds great, do we all get free veggies? lol
Isobel		#10	[-]
Posts: 1842 (09/06/2008 20:50:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Thought you had some exotic things growing already She ...rofl rofl
Recioy		#11	[-]
Posts: 2952 (09/06/2008 20:52:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	So much nicer to grow your own. We have cabbage, brussels, beans, peas, tomatoes and potatoes at the moment and they are doing really well this year - I also have strawberries, blueberries and hope my apple tree will give me some apples this year as well. Adele x
Tina		#12	[-]
Posts: 29924 (09/06/2008 20:54:31) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	We only have a very small garden but we have a prolific grape vine and get loads of grapes every year ... if we remember to pick them before the birds get them. We used to have a blueberry bush too but the birds always beat us to it then kindly deposited the waste onto my washing!
murchison		#13	[-]
Posts: 5284 (09/06/2008 20:54:46) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	i have loads of strawberrys and apple tress plum trees pears and peach and lots of fruit bushes
CarolPG		#14	[-]
Posts: 5662 (09/06/2008 21:26:44) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	She you need to be careful with getting seeds from Oz............. you certainly aren't allowed to take any plants, seeds, etc INTO Oz and I'm fairly sure that it works this way too. Good luck with the veggie plot though! My friend has an allotment and the veg is so nice! C xx
Sue G		#15	[-]
Posts: 283 (09/06/2008 21:31:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Very exciting indeed She Wray! We have been growing our own veg for years and there is nothing like picking the fresh produce you have spent love and care on! Do keep us updated. We have a big wild rabbit population here (we live on a farm) and they broke into two of our veg patches last week (runner beans and brussels) and had a real feast. They have also eaten my roses this year which they have not done in the past! Good job I like bunnies but I wish they would just eat our grass and weeds! Sue
She Wray		#16	[-]
Posts: 5117 (09/06/2008 21:51:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Paul wont let me buy some fertilised eggs - I thought it would be nice to have a couple of chickens and a wee duck lol. Mind you - with some of our residents on the estate they would have them in the pot with the veg! Carol - we have been checking about the seeds from Aus - if they are sealed in foil packs and in the original packaging we are ok - cant wait now! Funny you should say that Tina - was looking at the organic site and thought - ooooh - our homegrown stuff is that - blimey I am going to save a fortune - hmmm - now what can I do with that saved money? I know - buy some craft stuff lol As for pests - well we have zillions of blinky snails - looking at a humane way to get rid off them (my first choice is chucking them over into next doors garden) and blinky blimey cats. Going to order some Zoo Poo to deter them. At the moment I tell them to go away (but not as politely) I am sorely tempted to see if the council would allow me to keep a goat as a pet - it could cut the grass and supply milk - oh yes and get rid of unwanted callers at the door.
cmegan		#17	[-]
Posts: 1047 (09/06/2008 21:52:38) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Don't mean to be a killjoy, but, don't forget the slugs and snails. We have had to buy some more runner beans, cos they have no leaves now, I set a tray of marigolds, planted some out, all gone, yet the ones I still have in the tray they haven't touched.! Just poured two pints of beer into two trays and put by the beans hope I have caught some in the morning. Jen
Recioy		#18	[-]
Posts: 2952 (09/06/2008 22:05:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	If you have snails and slugs, save your coffee grounds and put them around the plants, the pests do not like them - any nearby coffee shop will be glad to save it for you if you ask them nicely - for those of you who don't make ground coffee. Adele x

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