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Hi all,
I'm new to the forum and don't have much gardening experience! I started gardening a few years ago but have had to move from house to house for a number of reasons, never getting to grips with each gardening space before having to move on. We are now lucky enough to have a lovely housing association house with a small garden. It was an absolute wreck when we took it over, filled with building rubble and layers of rubbish. I spent our first summer digging the rubbish out of the patch of "grass", putting new soil down and planting grass from seed. It took and this is probably the most success I have ever had with growing anything! Now I want to use the small patio and path spaces to grow fruit and veg in containers. I got a few beans this year and a handful of tomatoes and kept some rosemary alive, and that's about it. I'm a bit of a sucker for novelty so have ordered some cucamelon and tomatillo seeds on the recommendation in January's edition of GYO that they do well in containers, but have never tried them before. I think the issue I tend to have is that the plants are too dry over the summer, as its hard to get out enough to water them (I'm a student midwife with 3 children so time is squeezed), then they are too wet during the winter and drown. I currently have some round ball type carrots growing on the top shelf of a mini greenhouse, but everything on the bottom has died. I have covered the greenhouse with fleece but have no idea what I'm doing really so not sure if it is cutting out the light. I have a blueberry bush that I bought in the autumn and have put bubble wrap round it for the winter, so hoping that it is still alive in the spring, but it seems to be filling up with water despite sitting on gravel. I have some garlic and broad beans in containers that are covered with fleece over a frame I made from trellis, but they again seem to be struggling with out much light.
I think you can see that I'm trying but could do with more practice and good advice! Any contribution would be much appreciated.
I'm new to the forum and don't have much gardening experience! I started gardening a few years ago but have had to move from house to house for a number of reasons, never getting to grips with each gardening space before having to move on. We are now lucky enough to have a lovely housing association house with a small garden. It was an absolute wreck when we took it over, filled with building rubble and layers of rubbish. I spent our first summer digging the rubbish out of the patch of "grass", putting new soil down and planting grass from seed. It took and this is probably the most success I have ever had with growing anything! Now I want to use the small patio and path spaces to grow fruit and veg in containers. I got a few beans this year and a handful of tomatoes and kept some rosemary alive, and that's about it. I'm a bit of a sucker for novelty so have ordered some cucamelon and tomatillo seeds on the recommendation in January's edition of GYO that they do well in containers, but have never tried them before. I think the issue I tend to have is that the plants are too dry over the summer, as its hard to get out enough to water them (I'm a student midwife with 3 children so time is squeezed), then they are too wet during the winter and drown. I currently have some round ball type carrots growing on the top shelf of a mini greenhouse, but everything on the bottom has died. I have covered the greenhouse with fleece but have no idea what I'm doing really so not sure if it is cutting out the light. I have a blueberry bush that I bought in the autumn and have put bubble wrap round it for the winter, so hoping that it is still alive in the spring, but it seems to be filling up with water despite sitting on gravel. I have some garlic and broad beans in containers that are covered with fleece over a frame I made from trellis, but they again seem to be struggling with out much light.
I think you can see that I'm trying but could do with more practice and good advice! Any contribution would be much appreciated.
tomato sideshoots grow in the area of the plant we call armpits,as it grows out of that point & not anywhere on the branches,I"™ll try & find a good picture,there"™s a thread here with some pictures that hopefully help -
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