Any arbtalking veg growers in da house?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Chavtastic chips in low profiles sounds about right to me!

[Gnome]

Chavtastic chips in low profiles sounds about right to me!

 

Yes they (young uns in sooped up corsas) wear down those tyres pretty quick and if you have a friend of a friend of a friend who mixes in those circles they save a couple of quid when they get their new tyres if they just take them home and give them to you.

 

And if you are friends with the agricultural folks of this fair land you might get a tractor tyre as an instant raised bed.

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yes they (young uns in sooped up corsas) wear down those tyres pretty quick and if you have a friend of a friend of a friend who mixes in those circles they save a couple of quid when they get their new tyres if they just take them home and give them to you.

 

And if you are friends with the agricultural folks of this fair land you might get a tractor tyre as an instant raised bed.

 

 

I am liking your style!

[Gnarlyoak]

Since the weather was most clement over the last weekend, I started to tidy up my plot and turn over the beds, I also took the opportunity to take a few shots of my "guerilla" allottment to share. Practically all the material is recycled or sourced locally, bricks & stone are what I dug up when I originally cultivated the area. Compost bin made from pallets, hazel hurdel made myself the sourced from the canalside nearby as was the willow used in the fedge (fence/hedge). Shots 9 & 10 give some idea of what the are looked like before I cultivated it, shot 7 shows a small tree sapling nursery.

[Gnarlyoak]

SHOW US YOUR ROBINS

 

Normally every time you go into your garden and start doing some work, you inevitably suddenly find a robin pops looking for an easy meal. So whilst I started to turn over my beds last weekend this is the little chap who paid me a visit and relieved me of a few worms.

 

Gladly given for a couple of hours of his amusing company. Got as close as about 5-6ft from me.

[Jesse]

I have recently gotten back into growing my own, and this time I'm doing it not just for food but for biodiversity and seed conservation of old or obscure varieties that are being lost due to stupid legislation, poor farming practice and a general uniformity drive by supermarket chains.

 

Just wondering if any of you lads or lasses do much growing yourselves either for food or pleasure, what you grow, what origin your seed came from, do you have an old family variety grown from seed for generations for example? or do you buy F1 hybrids from the local garden centre?

 

There is something very earhty and satisfying raising food crops from seed, and i cant wait to actualy see this through to harvesting seed for myself. That has many advantages, as strains can be adapted through time to the location.

 

Im reading an absolutely marvelous book at the moment called "Back garden seed saving" by Sue stickland and can thoroughly recomend it to anyone interested in the subject. Some great history in it and great stories of the seed saving project that saw many elderly folk sending in breeds of unkown crops that had been grow fo 180 years in some cases.

 

I have fond memories as a child growing my first plants, and when actively gardening can never rsist the urge to plant some sunflowers, happiest plant on earth!

 

not trees, not big saws or guns im afraid, so expecting this one to die rapidly but you never know.

Hi Tony, yet another story from from my life, this time about spuds, In the last years of my time as a royal, I was a groom , looked after the adjutants horse, and gave ridding lessons to wifes and navy personal, I also at that time lived in one of those new town Lego type houses, you know the sort , front and back manicured lawns, and there were restrictions on the height of shrubs and on planting any trees, it was not allowed, tree planting that is, but no where did it say anything about spuds. I rotorvat'd my front and back gardens ,completely , and planted out with rows of spuds, also collected rain in tubs and stewed with nettles as a feed for my other veg. Most of the produce was out of this world but i did make the mistake of laying horse manure (fresh) with the spuds, as a result ended up with lots of worm activity which spoiled the crop. I plan to do veg again this year. You learn from your mistakes. We used to give Buet to the horses as well but we didn't eat them, at least not knowingly .

[TGB]

Gnarlyoak you've done a cracking job there. Functional and tidy with interesting bits.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Since the weather was most clement over the last weekend, I started to tidy up my plot and turn over the beds, I also took the opportunity to take a few shots of my "guerilla" allottment to share. Practically all the material is recycled or sourced locally, bricks & stone are what I dug up when I originally cultivated the area. Compost bin made from pallets, hazel hurdel made myself the sourced from the canalside nearby as was the willow used in the fedge (fence/hedge). Shots 9 & 10 give some idea of what the are looked like before I cultivated it, shot 7 shows a small tree sapling nursery.

 

Thats keen and a wicked effort!

 

SHOW US YOUR ROBINS

 

 

Normally every time you go into your garden and start doing some work, you inevitably suddenly find a robin pops looking for an easy meal. So whilst I started to turn over my beds last weekend this is the little chap who paid me a visit and relieved me of a few worms.

 

Gladly given for a couple of hours of his amusing company. Got as close as about 5-6ft from me.

 

havent got one yet but lots of Blue tits on the feeder, i will consider this a chalenge as i continue to dig for victory over Monsato!

 

 

Hi Tony, yet another story from from my life, this time about spuds, In the last years of my time as a royal, I was a groom , looked after the adjutants horse, and gave ridding lessons to wifes and navy personal, I also at that time lived in one of those new town Lego type houses, you know the sort , front and back manicured lawns, and there were restrictions on the height of shrubs and on planting any trees, it was not allowed, tree planting that is, but no where did it say anything about spuds. I rotorvat'd my front and back gardens ,completely , and planted out with rows of spuds, also collected rain in tubs and stewed with nettles as a feed for my other veg. Most of the produce was out of this world but i did make the mistake of laying horse manure (fresh) with the spuds, as a result ended up with lots of worm activity which spoiled the crop. I plan to do veg again this year. You learn from your mistakes. We used to give Buet to the horses as well but we didn't eat them, at least not knowingly .

 

the nettle stew for liquid feed sounds like a plan bud:thumbup1:

[Goaty]

Comfrey makes a good liquid feed as well I have the sterile Bocking 14 of Lawence Hills HDRA fame. It makes a magnificent stink when well brewed, probably keeps the pests off for a while as well. Dead easy from root cuttings.

[Gnome]

Comfrey makes a good liquid feed as well I have the sterile Bocking 14 of Lawence Hills HDRA fame. It makes a magnificent stink when well brewed, probably keeps the pests off for a while as well. Dead easy from root cuttings.

 

Really deep roots so plan well where you are going to place them. A very good investment if your planning on composting as well as making the compost teas.