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    Just sitting contemplating in my large PT this afternoon ( everyone has their own skills I'm sure) and it occurred to me to wonder if I have the most disorganised melange of plants in a garden sized structure (6m x 3m).

    Now it has to be said a) I'm not claiming this is a good thing nor b) that some of it is not accidental - because it is. I built this PT in an area of the garden which used to loosely be a veg/fruit bed principally because its the only flattish space which wasn't being something-else like a lawn or an orchard. So some plants got the PT built over them rather than being deliberately planted inside.

    These hang-overs include :-
    two cherry trees
    two Tayberries
    a grapevine
    two gooseberry bushes
    a small flowered rose
    some rosa rugosa bushes (pink)
    some forsythia and a currant of some kind, possibly black

    Planted introductions include :-
    another cherry tree (don't ask)
    another grapevine (roots outside)
    a lemon tree
    broad beans
    peas ( the alderman have just started flowering - always amuses me to have pea flowers above head high)
    Tomatoes (4 sorts)
    cucumbers
    borlotti beans
    sweetheart cabbages
    spring onions
    and radishes

    stuff in containers :-
    a dwarf nectarine
    another cherry tree (I know)
    two sorts of strawberry ( the remontant type I grew from seed looks to be 2 weeks from having ripe fruit on it)
    more tomatoes
    winter-sweet seedlings
    sunflowers
    a couple of trays of perennial flower seeds
    some meconopsis betonicifiolia seedlings
    some pots of potatoes
    herbs like parsley and coriander
    a loquat
    several trays of plants grown from seed to go in the hanging baskets
    nasturtium seedlings
    two buckets of purple podded pea seedlings (seed swap)

    - fortunately no pear tree - though I did spot two partridges, one of whom was having a dust bath on the other side of the road from my drive the other day :-)

    (and yes I have moved a few things out, like the exochorda macracantha and an American pillar rose + soem of the rugosas.)

  • #2
    I don't see anything wrong with any of that. Plus, I think it's impossible to have too many cherry trees. Just my opinion, of course.

    The only thing is... maybe you could do with a bigger PT.

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    • #3
      Sounds quite normal to me
      I've just been taking some photos around the garden and this is my netted GH (3 6x8 frames bolted together and covered with debris netting).

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      The raspberries are there because the frames were put up over and old raspberry site (can't call it a bed as it sounds too organised).
      There are 2 grapevines, 3 dwarf peach trees, a blackcurrant (don't know how that got there), some perennial cauliflowers, cabbages in pots, strawberries, onions and shallots that were planted 2 years ago and forgotten about - not sure what else.

      I thought everyone gardened in a muddle.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
        Sounds quite normal to me

        Case closed then - I have gone bonkers - lovely photos BTW VC - but I think I may have spotted a square inch of unused space in one of them :-)

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Snoop Puss View Post
          I don't see anything wrong with any of that. Plus, I think it's impossible to have too many cherry trees. Just my opinion, of course.

          The only thing is... maybe you could do with a bigger PT.
          Fair point well made - in fact my poly-tunnel structure is loose at one end because I bought the polythene sheeting as a bundle, it was significantly longer than the structure I had erected - so I've now bought a few more hoops 2nd hand, with a view to extending :-)

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          • #6
            Originally posted by nickdub View Post
            Just sitting contemplating in my large PT this afternoon ( everyone has their own skills I'm sure) and it occurred to me to wonder if I have the most disorganised melange of plants in a garden sized structure (6m x 3m).

            Now it has to be said a) I'm not claiming this is a good thing nor b) that some of it is not accidental - because it is. I built this PT in an area of the garden which used to loosely be a veg/fruit bed principally because its the only flattish space which wasn't being something-else like a lawn or an orchard. So some plants got the PT built over them rather than being deliberately planted inside.

            These hang-overs include :-
            two cherry trees
            two Tayberries
            a grapevine
            two gooseberry bushes
            a small flowered rose
            some rosa rugosa bushes (pink)
            some forsythia and a currant of some kind, possibly black

            Planted introductions include :-
            another cherry tree (don't ask)
            another grapevine (roots outside)
            a lemon tree
            broad beans
            peas ( the alderman have just started flowering - always amuses me to have pea flowers above head high)
            Tomatoes (4 sorts)
            cucumbers
            borlotti beans
            sweetheart cabbages
            spring onions
            and radishes

            stuff in containers :-
            a dwarf nectarine
            another cherry tree (I know)
            two sorts of strawberry ( the remontant type I grew from seed looks to be 2 weeks from having ripe fruit on it)
            more tomatoes
            winter-sweet seedlings
            sunflowers
            a couple of trays of perennial flower seeds
            some meconopsis betonicifiolia seedlings
            some pots of potatoes
            herbs like parsley and coriander
            a loquat
            several trays of plants grown from seed to go in the hanging baskets
            nasturtium seedlings
            two buckets of purple podded pea seedlings (seed swap)

            - fortunately no pear tree - though I did spot two partridges, one of whom was having a dust bath on the other side of the road from my drive the other day :-)

            (and yes I have moved a few things out, like the exochorda macracantha and an American pillar rose + soem of the rugosas.)
            Are you sure you not using too much space for the paths?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
              Are you sure you not using too much space for the paths?
              .......and enough space to sit and contemplate!

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              • #8
                All trees are banished from my main GHs...the extra grapes were gifted as the old one that I have crops so well I never use them all and I can't give them away
                GH 1 - 20x8ft

                Fruit cuttings
                Gooseberry
                Black currant
                Tayberry

                Large year old chilli plants
                Chocolate hab
                Dorset Nag
                Pink Hab
                ( thank fully teenager son is home to carry stuff in on the weekend)
                Chilli seedlings
                Giant white hab
                Peach Hab
                Padron
                Jalape�o
                And a couple of others

                Toms
                About 100 young plants - held in pots ready to be planted in over two GHs. Will gift those that I can't fit in.
                Can't remember all the varieties
                A few Latah and balcony reds in BFB
                2 hanging baskets - balcony red

                MFB -pots of herbs
                Garlic chives
                Chives
                2 - welsh onions
                Parsley

                Small pots
                Oregano
                Basil
                Lemon basil

                A couple of trays of peas
                A trough of salad leaves

                Flower seedlings - potted potted on into various pots ( gifted lots away yesterday to a friend who also loves plants in exchange for cuttings from a Rose, clematis and Japanese anemones)
                green envy zinnia
                pink cosmos
                double click cranberry
                clary
                nasturtiums
                Ammi
                Echinacea
                6-giant yellow scabious ( thanks VC )
                bells of Ireland
                Just potting on a tray of hot mix colours of zinnia
                Cup plant
                Morning glory
                Shoo Fly plant
                Red campion

                Beans
                24 - Meuch
                24 - pinto
                12 - Redland green leaf
                24 - tresnejavec
                24 - trail of tears

                12 - red emperor runners
                12 - black knight

                6 courgettes
                6 cucumbers
                A tray of red sunflower seeds

                A few pots of lillies
                Rose cuttings
                A few other bits and bobs

                And over 50 Dahlias
                This was about 2 weeks ago - path is dangerous now

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                • #9
                  A) I was sitting in the doorway looking in
                  B) a certain amount of crawling is necessary at some points - good for the mature figure I'm told :-)

                  PS forgot to mention the fuchsias and the Apricot grown from a seed -memory not what it once was.

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                  • #10
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                      All trees are banished from my main GHs...the extra grapes were gifted as the old one that I have crops so well I never use them all and I can't give them away
                      GH 1 - 20x8ft

                      Fruit cuttings
                      Gooseberry
                      Black currant
                      Tayberry

                      Large year old chilli plants
                      Chocolate hab
                      Dorset Nag
                      Pink Hab
                      ( thank fully teenager son is home to carry stuff in on the weekend)
                      Chilli seedlings
                      Giant white hab
                      Peach Hab
                      Padron
                      Jalape�o
                      And a couple of others

                      Toms
                      About 100 young plants - held in pots ready to be planted in over two GHs. Will gift those that I can't fit in.
                      Can't remember all the varieties
                      A few Latah and balcony reds in BFB
                      2 hanging baskets - balcony red

                      MFB -pots of herbs
                      Garlic chives
                      Chives
                      2 - welsh onions
                      Parsley

                      Small pots
                      Oregano
                      Basil
                      Lemon basil

                      A couple of trays of peas
                      A trough of salad leaves

                      Flower seedlings - potted potted on into various pots ( gifted lots away yesterday to a friend who also loves plants in exchange for cuttings from a Rose, clematis and Japanese anemones)
                      green envy zinnia
                      pink cosmos
                      double click cranberry
                      clary
                      nasturtiums
                      Ammi
                      Echinacea
                      6-giant yellow scabious ( thanks VC )
                      bells of Ireland
                      Just potting on a tray of hot mix colours of zinnia
                      Cup plant
                      Morning glory
                      Shoo Fly plant
                      Red campion

                      Beans
                      24 - Meuch
                      24 - pinto
                      12 - Redland green leaf
                      24 - tresnejavec
                      24 - trail of tears

                      12 - red emperor runners
                      12 - black knight

                      6 courgettes
                      6 cucumbers
                      A tray of red sunflower seeds

                      A few pots of lillies
                      Rose cuttings
                      A few other bits and bobs

                      And over 50 Dahlias
                      This was about 2 weeks ago - path is dangerous now
                      That's a good effort Scarlet - but definitely on the tidy side - my dahlias got booted out a while ago and are mostly planted up outside - a decision I may come to regret, depending on how the weather goes :-(

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                      • #12
                        Hmm, they easily get frosted....some of mine that were touching the window just a month ago had it. I will be fleecing mine on the weekend.
                        I lost a few last year to late frost.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                          Hmm, they easily get frosted....some of mine that were touching the window just a month ago had it. I will be fleecing mine on the weekend.
                          I lost a few last year to late frost.
                          Yes I know - may get the fleece out too, depending on how things look here.

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