big difficulties

[joshie]

hi all

i have recently joined this forum but have had experience of one growing season but this year have run into difficulties because we have been in our new house 5 years and the garden still needs landscaping and my parents say im not alowed to grow anything for a couple of years because its apparently going to be back filled this spring i have already moved blackcurrents redcurrents bluberries raspberries rhubarb and blackberries into my grandparents orchard which has been neglected for years and i have no room left for the veggies

and ive also put in a damson a plum a pear and two cherries i enherited from a farm that was moving so its all a bit manic i no its a long list of complaints but does anyone have any suggestions on what to do

[taff]

are you asking about fruit in particular or veg gardening? either way, if you can't grow in the soil, containers are your best bet.
Containers will need more frequent watering, and morelooking after though.
There'sa thread on container gardening here
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...es-thread.html

[lettucegrow!]

Hello joshie and welcome to the vine. I don't understand 'not allowed', is the soil not very good and it needs improving or others opinions? What are they objecting to? Most things are very adaptable unless the soil is really not viable. You might need to just' go for it' and see what happens this year. It sounds like you have a quite substantial plot from what you are describing to grow?

[Glutton4...]

Welcome to the Madhouse, Joshie! I sympathise with your plight, as I, too, am at the mercy of my parents and their rules, as I am trying to establish a garden on their land.
If your folks are planning on 'back-filing,' presumably they are going to be importing topsoil to make up the levels, therefore, if you plant vegetables, they'll get buried!
I agree with Taff, if you can get your hands on some decent containers for growing your veg in, at least you'll get a crop, and at least you can move them if you need to.
Good luck with it!

[chris]

I'd bang a couple in regardless, but I was always a bit of a tear-away! The way I'd look at is, it's taken 5 years and nowt has happened, what difference is an extra few months going to make? But knowing me, it'd then be landscaped!

So yeah containers as above. I built a trough last year out of floor boards, then put some feet on it. I guess it was around 1.5m x 0.5x x 0.5x (then on feet, taking it to about a meter off the floor). Was got a good crop out of that - after I netted itover to stop the resident cat using it as a loo.

[selfraising]

Hi Joshie
Not sure what you mean by backfilling but if the soil is no good, you could always try raised beds for this year.

[stella]

Just till you settle down, pots in sacks, strawbs in hanging baskets, small veg/herbs in window boxes and as much as you can fit into whatever container you have.

[rustylady]

Hi Joshie. You can grow quite a bit of veg in containers. Please put a bit more info on your profile, including where you are.

[joshie]

me again thanks for some suggestions the veg i want to grow this year is all the usual carrots beetroot cabbages cucumber courgettes beans peas saladii stuff bit difficult but yeh some containers might do im just looking foward to the new garden we all ready got 15 free raspberry canes 20 strawberry runners and very cheap 6 red and 4 blackcurrants and 4 blue and 4 blackberries so we got the crops just have too wait we have even got a greenhouse in the garage in bits and are planning a polytunnel but actually we are quite lucky bacause when we moved in the was a overgrown massive orchard full of neglected fruit trees basically a gold mine for the average fruit gardener so like i said we have the plants and seeds also just not the space at the mo

anohter gold mine is opposite us a cow farm with piles of rotted manure stod out side and were related to them haa

[BUFFS]

last year i picked up some great big(18ins square and 3ft high)bags,the woven type,with handles @ £2 each, in B@Q,they may have gone up but will last years.. used two for fairly young fruit trees... good luck with it all and happy gardening...

[Florence Fennel]

Hi Joshie, welcome to the Vine. As Rustylady says, put your whereabouts into your profile, we like to know which part of the country grapes are in. I'm with the containers theory for this season. You can grow in almost anything if it's deep enough! Good growing!

[taff]

good idea buffs.

you can also ask for those builders bags on freecycle or something

[joshie]

i have added location now