Some of my garden piccies

[Glutton4...]

Fab SR, really fab! You deserve a bigger garden!

[selfraising]

Lol don't know if I could manage a bigger garden. This ones only 40ft by 20 ft and with working full time it only gets done and weekends and hols! Thank you for all your kind comments, it's always never wracking putting piccies on because everyone has different tastes but I hope it inspires people with small spaces how much you can fit in if you want to.

[binley100]

You put Alys to shame ............ Well done it looks great.

[Two_Sheds]

everyone has different tastes ...

Tell me about it.
It's taken me a fortnight to get over a neighbour saying that I had the "worst garden in the street".
It wasn't a joke.

I now realise that their idea of "tidy" is a square of lawn with a busy lizzie in the middle

[Nicos]

Bored????..flipping heck...you're doing a fantastic job...and they all look so healthy!!!
What an amazing amount of different crops- plus flowers.....well done you!!!

[selfraising]

Tell me about it.
It's taken me a fortnight to get over a neighbour saying that I had the "worst garden in the street".
It wasn't a joke.

I now realise that their idea of "tidy" is a square of lawn with a busy lizzie in the middle

That's a really harsh thing for someone to say, especially if that's all they have to show for their gardening.

[selfraising]

Bored????..flipping heck...you're doing a fantastic job...and they all look so healthy!!!
What an amazing amount of different crops- plus flowers.....well done you!!!

aaaaw thanks Nicos, wish I had a bit more confidence in myself but we can't all be like that I guess

[Nicos]

Tell me about it.
It's taken me a fortnight to get over a neighbour saying that I had the "worst garden in the street".
It wasn't a joke.

WHAT?????

...shame on them

[Caro]

Yikes [ walks off muttering must do better ]

[T8Ter]

lovely job, I'll definately be pinching the melon growing idea as I'm always looking how to support the fruit effectively.

[quark1]

Tremendous use of just about every imaginable type of container and almost every possible square foot of available floor space! Love the way you've achieved different elevations with the raised beds etc.

With so many containers - do you have a watering sytem in place or is it all by hand? Perhaps you have some 'little slaves' - ie your kids - or some bigger slave available - spouse?!, who lend a hand and learn a few things at the same time!

Great thing with containers is you can move to best position as the seasons changes and also when you do come to move house any precious plants/projects can move with you if you have sympathetic removal men.

Lovely job - well done - I who is NOT AT ALL envious and whose garden needs much work still to be done.

[selfraising]

Tremendous use of just about every imaginable type of container and almost every possible square foot of available floor space! Love the way you've achieved different elevations with the raised beds etc.

With so many containers - do you have a watering sytem in place or is it all by hand? Perhaps you have some 'little slaves' - ie your kids - or some bigger slave available - spouse?!, who lend a hand and learn a few things at the same time!

Great thing with containers is you can move to best position as the seasons changes and also when you do come to move house any precious plants/projects can move with you if you have sympathetic removal men.

Lovely job - well done - I who is NOT AT ALL envious and whose garden needs much work still to be done.

Thanks for your kind comments, I'm afraid the watering system is me! Each container has an upturned plastic bottle in it so I can water direct to the roots and I put a manure mulch on top of the soil to stop it drying out. The garden has gradually evolved. When I first started about 3 years ago it was mainly layed to lawn with loads of couch grass in it. As the veggies took over the lawn went. The garden is a funny shape and is at it's widest at the top and then bends round and goes downhill slightly, narrowing as it goes. I have tried to create some height inbetween and added mirrors in behind the flower borders to give the illusion of width and as the back of the borders are shady, they seem to reflect some light.

[frogdoctor]

selfraising..your garden is wonderful, I only wish I could see it for real. please take some more pics for us to see as the year progresses.

[selfraising]

Thankyou frogdoctor. If you are ever down this way, you are more than welcome!! The only thing I haven't quite got the hang of yet in the flower border is putting things in there to cover all the seasons. I just buy what I like the look of and pop them in but often they all flower at the same time Trying very hard this year to keep the successional veg sowing going, trouble is I keep forgetting!!

[SarzWix]

It's all looking fab as always SR - it shows the love you put into it

Sorry I can't merge your photos into one post - even mods are only allowed so many pics per post... It draws the experience out nicely, so don't worry about it