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Hello all, as you may have seen from my winter pea question, I'm totally new to internet forums and have no idea how to navigate this site at all! But I'm here..
I've been growing small amounts of veg organically for over 15 years, not always successfully, and now have the luxury of 4 small raised beds in the garden (just finished 2nd year) and a half plot allotment (end of 1st year).
I have to say that the amount of produce from the 4 small raised beds alone has been amazing! Two beds of more specialist potatoes, Mange Tout?, Borlotti Beans (still picking final ones from 3rd, late sowing), onions, garlic, courgettes, fantastic Sungold tomatos (3 plants straight in the bed) and purple/green beans. With just me/partner and my 3yr old son, it's been lovely popping out for fresh food. We've got a couple of 4ft plastic covered plant houses too and have grown 2 aubergines in those and 2 more straight into large pots. Definately going to grow more of those next year.
The first year on the allotment was also good but I'd only managed to dig half of it over so now I've almost dug it all over for next year. Autumn Bliss Raspberries are a must, constant picking of small bowl fulls ever other day for months! Not a glut/freeze scale but I only have 6-8 canes and still well worth it. My butternut squash and patty pan courgettes also fab.
This coming year I'm adding more natural flowers as most of the allotment holders dig and plant in a field/farmer type way, but with a toddler I need more paths and smaller sections and I'm more of the cottage gardener type grower not the max-out farmer (just not for me). I've already transplanted foxgloves and marigold seeds down there to encourage bees.
Enough already!
I've been growing small amounts of veg organically for over 15 years, not always successfully, and now have the luxury of 4 small raised beds in the garden (just finished 2nd year) and a half plot allotment (end of 1st year).
I have to say that the amount of produce from the 4 small raised beds alone has been amazing! Two beds of more specialist potatoes, Mange Tout?, Borlotti Beans (still picking final ones from 3rd, late sowing), onions, garlic, courgettes, fantastic Sungold tomatos (3 plants straight in the bed) and purple/green beans. With just me/partner and my 3yr old son, it's been lovely popping out for fresh food. We've got a couple of 4ft plastic covered plant houses too and have grown 2 aubergines in those and 2 more straight into large pots. Definately going to grow more of those next year.
The first year on the allotment was also good but I'd only managed to dig half of it over so now I've almost dug it all over for next year. Autumn Bliss Raspberries are a must, constant picking of small bowl fulls ever other day for months! Not a glut/freeze scale but I only have 6-8 canes and still well worth it. My butternut squash and patty pan courgettes also fab.
This coming year I'm adding more natural flowers as most of the allotment holders dig and plant in a field/farmer type way, but with a toddler I need more paths and smaller sections and I'm more of the cottage gardener type grower not the max-out farmer (just not for me). I've already transplanted foxgloves and marigold seeds down there to encourage bees.
Enough already!
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