Hi everyone!

[amandak]

My name is Amanda and I'm from Swansea, i have just decided that i need to start growing my own veg as I'm missing my nans green beans and that's the only way I'm going to get any.

I know a little bit about growing like how to put seed's in dirt lol, but for the technical side like sowing times and pests I'm a bit clueless.

I haven't got a garden its all concrete but i do have some massive pots to get started.

I know I'm probably a bit late in the season to start but I bought some lettuce seeds and some runner beans yesterday so I'm hoping to get at least a dinners worth of runner beans. I read the post about chitting beans and I'm trying that approach to see if it works.
My garden is south facing and i get the sun up until 6 pm then it disappears behind my neighbours extension.

I'm really excited to learn lots from this forum and I'm hoping to grow lots of veg.

[Greenleaves]

Welcome to the vine, enjoy the benefits of the advice and humour

I have only just sown another batch of runners, they keep going until the first frosts

[jackarmy]

Hi Amanda, fellow jack here .
As GL said plenty of time for runners and indeed for french beans, im just chitting some borlotti ready to pop in after may garlic and the lettuce will also be fine. plenty of time as long as you can get the beggers to germinate , welcome to the vine.

[SarrissUK]

Hi and welcome to the vine!
I have a long concrete path that is right up against my fence that is completely in the wrong place, and since I can't face breaking the concrete up, I've come up with a rather good solution, even if it's fairly temporary.
I've put about six ikea blue big bags along the fence and filled them with compost. Everything in those bags so far are growing better than anywhere else in my garden, including in the greenhouse! I've been very lucky and had used compost from where I work which certainly helped to fill them.
I will take pics tomorrow if I remember so you can see what it looks like. I'm hoping to construct a picket fence to cover them up a bit at some point.

[amandak]

That's awesome news hopefully they will germinate and i can get them planted soon.
thank you for the lovely welcome

[amandak]

Hi and welcome to the vine!
I have a long concrete path that is right up against my fence that is completely in the wrong place, and since I can't face breaking the concrete up, I've come up with a rather good solution, even if it's fairly temporary.
I've put about six ikea blue big bags along the fence and filled them with compost. Everything in those bags so far are growing better than anywhere else in my garden, including in the greenhouse! I've been very lucky and had used compost from where I work which certainly helped to fill them.
I will take pics tomorrow if I remember so you can see what it looks like. I'm hoping to construct a picket fence to cover them up a bit at some point.

I've got some massive pink rubbish bags like garden waste bags and i was thinking of using one of them for potatoes they are really big so i would need a lot of compost but I'm not going to be planting them until next year so hopefully i can get some cheap compost in the sales.
please do send the pics, I would love to see what you have done.

[Small pumpkin]

Welcome to the vine

[veggiechicken]

Croeso Amanda from further East along the M4.

[Mr Bones]

Hello and welcome to the vine Still time to sow dwarf French beans too.

[Lumpy]

Hello and welcome to the Vine from me as well.

[amandak]

I don't think i have tried dwarf French beans so i will pop over the range to get some later. Thank you for the tip.

[Bren In Pots]

Hello and welcome to the vine Amanda

I used to grow my beans in pots and so long as you keep up with the watering they do fine.

[ESBkevin]

Hello and welcome Amanda.

Great to hear you're going to start growing, the advise you have had is all good. Being a pessimist at heart (grumpy old git) I will point out that plastic can degrade in direct sunlight over time, and if you try to move full wet bags that have been exposed a few months they might let go. Don't ask how i learned this.
Also runner beans are easy to grow, just keep them watered. After a few weeks the compost will be a bit depleated of nutrients so you have options. 1) Do nothing and let them get on with it. 2) Some chemical fertiliser. 3) Some home made fertiliser like nettle tea, Comfry Tea, weed Tea etc. 4) Lay fresh garden compost or rotted farmyard manure as a mulch on the surface of the bags. Lettuce are also easy but would prefer to avoid great heat (good luck with that right now) and want lots of moisture. If you have a part shady spot in summer they would prefer it.
In the end all plant want to thrieve and reproduce so just don't let them dry out too much and nature takes care of most of it.

Happy growing and let us know how you get on.

We're heading past Swansea in a couple of weeks on out way to Tenby, we'll give you a wave as we go past. ;-)

[Earthgirl Jen]

Hi Amanda and welcome from me 'waves'

I'm just to left of you on the map, at the end of the road

Enjoy and get excited about whatever you grow, they are a very lovely bunch on here x

[keat63]

Raddish are a fast turn over crop, and really satisfying.
Sow in rows about a week apart, until you have about 5 or 6 rows.