Phil the non-gardeners garden

[Rapscallion]

We are on hold for a week starting next friday, and was thinking of planting the strawberries on our return in 2 weeks time. Or will it be better to plant now and kindly ask the neighbours to water them?

Will definitely get the mershmellows, i see lots have been recommending them.

EDIT hold>holiday

[SarrissUK]

If you're after black tubs/buckets to grow in, see if you can find a local florist. I have one around the corner and he shouts me when he sees me come past when he has spare buckets he wants to get rid of

[dru`s haven]

Get yourself to Morri $ons - 8 flower buckets for 99p.
There's a great guy on YouTube - Home Grown Veg, who grows plenty of stuff in them. Cracking vids he puts up.

yes i agree home grown veg he is brilliant ,check out his videos on you tube he grows lots of different things in 10" pots just brilliant for small spaces good luck

[Penellype]

We are on hold for a week starting next friday, and was thinking of planting the strawberries on our return in 2 weeks time. Or will it be better to plant now and kindly ask the neighbours to water them?

Will definitely get the mershmellows, i see lots have been recommending them.

You may need to order the marshmello online and I'm not sure how long they will take to come. My thought with the others would be to plant if you have neighbours who will water, but it probably doesn't matter that much either way.

[Rapscallion]

Hi all. Have cut down the tomato and cucumber plants - what should I do with the dead plants and soil from the containers - compost or put in green bin?

[veggiechicken]

If the plants were diseased, bin them, if not compost them.
I use old compost for topping up pots or mix it with fresh compost and re-use.

[Rapscallion]

Thanks. The plants seemed fine, so plants and soil all going in the composter.

[Dalrimple]

how did you go on in your first growing season ? i'm dying to know .atb Dal

[Rapscallion]

how did you go on in your first growing season ? i'm dying to know .atb Dal

Hi Dalrimple

Apologies fro the (lengthy...) delay in posting.
We had another boy born in August last year so the forum posting got sidetracked...

Cucumbers were really productive, the tomatoes less so. But hopefully putting up the greenhouse in the week, so will be back here over the coming months.

[mrbadexample]

- Kumato

Phil, can I ask where you got the Kumato please? Best tomatoes I've ever grown (seed saved from a Kumato I bought in France) but somehow I've lost all my tomato seeds and this is one I'd like to recover.

[Rapscallion]

Planning the layout...

Hi all,

I have a couple of questions on how to lay things out in the growing area of the garden.

Heres an arial shot giving a quick idea of the layout, yellow squares are raised beds, green is a lightweight Wilkos greenhouse. Red is the fence bordering the neighbours. North is up, so it is a south facing corner. On the bottom right is a small tree, but doesn’t cause much shade except to the right corner of the lower right raised bed.

I hope to use the space between the raised beds and the fence to grow some more veg / fruit in pots. Theres another picture showing the space available (Roughly 7 x 2 paving slabs).

What can i do that would look nice and not cost a fortune. My first idea was to buy half a dozen pots and use those, but am hoping to do something a bit more aesthetically pleasing ! Looking to from some herbs, beans / peas, tomatoes and cucumbers in the greenhouse and haven't yet decided what else.

[Rapscallion]

It was in the local farmers market here in Cardiff. I'm pretty certain it was this farm: -
https://m.facebook.com/Blaencamel-Fa...?locale2=en_GB

Looks like they are selling tomato plants again tomorrow, if they won't post a plant to you I could pick one up, assuming they will have kumato s for sale. No idea how to wrap a plant for posting but we can crossed that bridge when we get to it.

[Penellype]

What do you like to eat?

Fruit bushes can be quite attractive and there are plenty of small fruit trees available nowadays which are on rootstocks that are suitable for pots - the ballerina types don't take up much space. Blueberries also do well in pots and are quite attractive with white flowers in spring and red autumn leaves.

Why not mix your veg with edible flowers such as nasturtiums and calendula (marigold) - both of these are good companion plants and have attractive flowers.

[veggiechicken]

If you do find some Kumato plants, remember to save some seeds for http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...-2017-a-6.html

[Jungle Jane]

I've been looking at this to fit more in vertically,copper tape round the legs to keep slugs out,good for salad & herbs but I don't know how big it is except it says 550cm long which seems a bit long? I wonder how big the troughs are & maybe peas & dwarf cucumbers would be alright in there?
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