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Hello All from a very Sunny West Wales at the moment. On the coast here was have only had one day of proper rain in the last month, so I'm not complaining but enjoying it and so are the plants.
I've been a lurker here since last year and reading all your helpful hints, helped me enormously last year so THANK YOU ALL. Also having been a lurker it's feels like I know some of you already although you know nothing about me yet.
We bought this place 3yrs ago this September, specifically for it's big garden and so I could at last grow some veg, but we bought a jungle I kid you not!!! and knew it was going to take some effort to actually get a garden.
When we viewed the house I didn't even know there was greenhouse at the bottom of the garden you couldn't see it and also an area that looked like it had been a veg patch a some point except everything growing in it was taller than me...lol..
Year one was just chopping down trees and shrubs to let some light in and also live with what we had bought to see what would come up.
Year two was spent actually clearing the green house and the veg patch and putting it back to some kind of order, after all it was why we bought the place and I actually did manage to grow quite a lot including a couple of watermelons.
We are now in year three and I'm enjoying growing veg much more this year as last year was very much lets just 'see what happens'
I'm currently growing this year:
tomatoes (5 types)
cucumber
onions (5 types)
celeriac
fennel
mangetout
peas (2 types)
potatoes maris piper (in pots)
runner beans
spring cabbage
kohlrabi
early 60day broccoli
purple cauli
swede
romanesco
purple sprouting broccoli
brussel sprouts
all year cauli
sugarbaby watermelon
collective farm woman melon
mini red sweet peppers
beetroot
sweetcorn F1 minipop
basil, thyme, parsley
spring onions
radish
lettuce (4 types)
plus an assortment of flowers from seed or cuttings
I think I'll stop there for now, anyway hello all
I've been a lurker here since last year and reading all your helpful hints, helped me enormously last year so THANK YOU ALL. Also having been a lurker it's feels like I know some of you already although you know nothing about me yet.
We bought this place 3yrs ago this September, specifically for it's big garden and so I could at last grow some veg, but we bought a jungle I kid you not!!! and knew it was going to take some effort to actually get a garden.
When we viewed the house I didn't even know there was greenhouse at the bottom of the garden you couldn't see it and also an area that looked like it had been a veg patch a some point except everything growing in it was taller than me...lol..
Year one was just chopping down trees and shrubs to let some light in and also live with what we had bought to see what would come up.
Year two was spent actually clearing the green house and the veg patch and putting it back to some kind of order, after all it was why we bought the place and I actually did manage to grow quite a lot including a couple of watermelons.
We are now in year three and I'm enjoying growing veg much more this year as last year was very much lets just 'see what happens'
I'm currently growing this year:
tomatoes (5 types)
cucumber
onions (5 types)
celeriac
fennel
mangetout
peas (2 types)
potatoes maris piper (in pots)
runner beans
spring cabbage
kohlrabi
early 60day broccoli
purple cauli
swede
romanesco
purple sprouting broccoli
brussel sprouts
all year cauli
sugarbaby watermelon
collective farm woman melon
mini red sweet peppers
beetroot
sweetcorn F1 minipop
basil, thyme, parsley
spring onions
radish
lettuce (4 types)
plus an assortment of flowers from seed or cuttings
I think I'll stop there for now, anyway hello all
Bet you were delighted to find a GH there.
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