Front garden GYO?...

[Nicos]

I was just wondering how many people are now growing fruit and/ or veg in their front gardens?......or are considering doing so?

[Feral007]

I am. Although I'm on a farm not in the suburbs. But we walk out the front to get herbs (and anything that might actually survive the baking heat this summer) The kids trampoline and the dogs are out the back.

[arpoet]

Front garden is too small at our place... just keep a few shrubs and bushes in there that are low maintenance. Back garden is a nice size and better suited for an untidy veg gardener like me.

[Alison]

I did before I got a Lottie. Had squashes, bean wigwams, broad beans and a few other bits and pieces. We're in a reasonable area but built up with loads of people walking past.


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[mrswadders]

I do, although i'm at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, I have fruit trees and bushes,strawberries and some kale and chard in my wheelbarrow planter, i'm hoping to have a hanging basket with trailing peppers and toms too this year.

[veggiechicken]

I have fig trees in the front garden - and an olive tree but I don't think that counts as it hardly fruits!

[alldigging]

I did when I lived in Ardwick. Had sprouts growing in the flower border. People used to stop and ask what I was growing.

[Bren In Pots]

Here's a good site about gardening out front :-

http://www.backtofront.org.uk/

there's a good pdf under the 'resources' heading with lots of info and ideas.

[chris]

I would do, but my small front garden is in total shade (north facing). I also share a bit of land with a neighbour, and have toyed with the idea of having a few things in there - but decided against it as my kids like running up and down that lawn

[binley100]

I havent really got one anyway the delightful family next door but one would probably help themselves...

[julesapple]

We have a long front garden with a parking place between us and (what is now) a very busy road. Our chooks live in the front garden.

We did try to grow veg & fruit out there but, at one point, there were some drug addicts living not far away and they regularly stole everything in the middle of the night (this used to be a lovely village!) After they moved on, we decided that the front garden was wasted space.

It really needs to be a place to sit out on Summer evenings as it's west facing, but how often have we had the chance to do that with all the terrible Summers we've had and, everyone passing by can see you - there is no privacy. People find it odd if you sit out in your front garden over here.

The chooks used to live out back, but they ate everything, leaving the garden looking like the maquis. The decision was made to put them in the front garden. We can see them all the time, they have everything they need - lots of plum trees, some conifers, sheltered dust baths etc. At night they walk down the alley way back to the chookhouse in the back garden.

We have thought about reversing the arrangement in a few year's time; the front garden will be well fertilised and conditioned by then!

[Samurailord]

Before I got my allotment I used to grow loads in the front garden.

Cabbages, brussels, potatoes, chard, leeks, peas, beans, and I still grow loads of fruit - apples, black currants, rhubarb, raspberries.

My wife has taken over my raised beds, however, and grows flowers in them now.

They look very nice, but I can't help feeling that it is just wasting space that I could be growing in

Andy

[Potstubsdustbins]

I have a mate who does.

When he first told me what he was going to do I laughed at him, telling him the lot would be nicked.

How wrong I was, like he said if it ain't wrapped in plastic and from Sainbugs or AsDa they'll not know what it is.

Potty

[mothhawk]

I have some herbs in the front garden - it's small but south facing, so I have thyme, marjoram, pennyroyal, and lavender, and this autumn I took out the catnip which sprawled out onto the public footpath and replaced it with anise hyssop from the back garden as that has a much more upright habit. I also have some gooseberry slips shoved in between the lavender clumps to see if that will fool the sawfly

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I've been considering this since we moved here. Our front garden is north facing though, probably half of it would be usable. I might see what I can get away with before the OH notices and veto's me.