Homemade obelisk

[stevekentuk125]

Thought id share my homemade Obelisk i made for my allotment the wood cost a tenner from B and Q and i painted it with some seagrass woodstain. Ready for some sweet peas or beans :-)

[chefgage]

Very nice! I made a few with some long metal rods which have a plastic coating. How is it secured to the ground? Is it buried deep or is it just sat on the surface? I ask because mine always eventually started to tip over. I firt pushed them deep in the ground. Then i put each leg in a deep flower pot and filled it with cement and then burried this but over time they would start to rock in the wind

[veggiechicken]

Very pretty - looks very designer-gardenish, Steve Need another photo when its covered in sweetpeas please

[stevekentuk125]

Chefgage i have just pushed it in the soil at the moment but need to think about securing it well as it does get windy on my sloping plots. Yeah i will post a pic when i manage to grow up it veggiechicken :-) Might make another for the garden bit smaller as this one came out 2.4m high

[stevekentuk125]

making progress on my plot

[bearded bloke]

Looking good

Whats the crop I see growing in the oberlisk ?

[stevekentuk125]

Thanks there are sweet peas growing on the left hand obelisk and caigua growing on the right hand side. Up the bamboo canes im growing kentucky wonder wax beans. Ive never grown any flowers before so thought id have a go at sweet peas first

[bearded bloke]

Great choice Steve

I've said it before & will say it again,NO garden is complete without some sweet peas



*wanders off to look up caigua

[bearded bloke]

Wow,never seen or heard of that before,get some pic's of the fruit & enter them in the VVS (later in the year) under any other squash.

*added to next years seed wish list

[Bren In Pots]

Steve the plot does look productive and i'm another one off to google what is caigua is

[bearded bloke]

Ere yer go Bren ... Caigua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Scarlet]

Are they the same family as Achocha? Non spiky version....

[stevekentuk125]

I only know because we have a nepalese family up the allotments and they grew it last year and gave me some seeds they taste really quite good and mine are growing well at the moment :-)Whats the VVS section?

[stevekentuk125]

think so scarlet theres a spiky type but mine are smooth hopefully and also a type that apparently explodes and scatters its seeds!!!! ekkkkk Im also growing mouse melon or attempting to :-) And red mountain spinach has come up in the beds i planted

[bearded bloke]

The Virtual Vegetable Show,it's a bit of fun in the Autumn members post pic's from the season in various categories,last years entries & voting ...

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...3-a_75468.html

For years prior,the threads are all in this section .. Fruit & Vegetable Showcase


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