sonny

Straw keeps the fruit off the soil so they dont spoil with the wetness and stops some of the bugs/insects.
Im no pro though im afraid the best book about them i found which is a bit like my granddads methods is the percy thrower type ones from the 60's and 70's lol you might be able to pick one up in a charity shop or ebay?

http://www.littlehamptongazette.co.u...rop.3395234.jp
Thats my grandpa lol they call him the pumpkin king!! He is 85 and still going strong!

leeanne

I'll join your club! LOL

I only started to plant flowers last year.

Amanda

Bloody hell Layla - you've put my plot to shame!!! That's brilliant!. But in my defence, we're in a new-build house with a tiny garden and no room for a greenhouse!!!

And Sonny - your granddad looks lovely - a right character!

Charlie decided to help me plant some more radish seeds this afternoon, I've now got organic compost all over the patio!!!

Layla

noooo dont be silly, you have done fab!!! we really went over board and had to give alot away lol

we only got the green house a few weeks ago, someone was giving it away free as long as we took it apart and away, took Jase 4 hours to take it apart and longer to put it back together lol

Next year we wont grow half as much, we are seroiusly over run with them all.....Check out my facebook hun, all the veg pics are on there

Growing your own makes you feel great tho doesnt it? or is it just me that get s warm wiggly feeling inside lol

x

Amanda

No, it's not just you Layla. I look outside and see those pots full of lettuce, and I definitely get that warm wiggly feeling!!

I bought a growbag a couple of weeks ago, and it's just sitting on the patio!! Any idea what to put in it - I don't want tomatoes coz I've got them.

polo_princess

if i had a garden i'd give it a bash ... my nan always used to grown her own and they taste soooooo much nicer

Mynxie

I used to grow my own tomatoes, - if we had somewhere that we could grow veg, I would, - but I can't get into the yard now

Linzi

I was talking to my MIL about this yesterday, might give it a go. Wouldn't know where to start. Can't be that hard though surely...

xxx

PeanutBean

We had a small potato patch in our old garden. Tried spinach but the slugs ate it constantly. Now we've moved house we've just taken up the concrete driveway (about a third of the garden space) and are waiting for a day when DH is home to fill a skip. Then we can finally get started with some lawn and veg. We're going to have a raised-bed kitchen garden. I want lots of herbs (we had nice herbs in the old garden too) and peas, potatoes, spinach (again) and lettuces. No space for a greenhouse so we're a bit limited.

Farie

I did in our last house, carrots on pots, tatties in pots, tomatos, lettice, peppers but our new house has a pants small garden which gets no light, all we grow at the moment is ropey looking grass.