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Veg plot looking SW 16 Feb


Veg plot looking SW 16 Feb

This what the plot looks like now! The fruit trees are along the fence.



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hi welcome to GOY. what veg are you planning to grow

16 Feb, 2009

 

Who is at the end of the path ? :o)
Which fruits will be on the trees ?

16 Feb, 2009

 

This will look so Different when uv Finished your Veggie Patch its always good to Take B4 Pics to look back on PatcthworkM :)

16 Feb, 2009

 

I am planning to sow the following veg -blue potatoes, red carrots, brussel sprouts, sweetcorn, broad beans,red onions, garlic,lettuce,leeks, perrenial cauliflower, butternut squash, spring onion on the veg plot and the following elsewhere in the garden (only my husband doesn't know that bit yet)- climbing corgette, dwarf runner beans and peas, yellow corgettes, crystal lemon cucmbers,rhubarb and tomatoes. I already have a herb bed and bay trees which I am growing as standards(my last one which I grew, died last year) I'm aiming for the French Pottager effect.I know, over ambitious as usual - but I won't plant my runner beans and corgettes etc out until June this year - I lost the lot last year due to that late frost. I was not well pleased.

16 Feb, 2009

 

The door you can just see is the back of our house.The path goes to the fence at theend of the garden. there is a gap in the fence which the child next door comes through to play with mine - we call her our fairy at the end of the garden!. we will have to put a gate there this year as her baby sister will be walking very soon and I don't want her falling in our deep pond(more of that another day)
The we planted thefruit trees along the fence by the veg plot a number of years ago - they are a black walnut grown from a sapling -it fruited for the first time last year and the squirrels swiped the lot while the walnuts were still green!!! We also plannted a peach, small plum(more like a damson) and apple and a Brown turkey fig. Elsewhere in the garden are a Rochester medlar and a stella cherry(on a NE facing wall) and a very old plum and pear tree which are probably as old as the house(1929) I also have two olive trees in pots and a black mulberry waiting to go in the ground and a rather sad looking cordon apple also waiting to go in the ground.On the other side of the garden is 50' native hedge that we planted about 15 years ago - it has hazel(and the squirrels always get these too, so if anyone has any anti squirrel theft suggestions they would be very welcome), holly(self seeded), honeysuckle, copper beech (put in 10 and only 1 survived!), hawthorn and an oak sapling that we planted.

16 Feb, 2009

 

Thanks for all the information.
This garden will be very interesting as it develops.
The pond also sounds fascinating :o)

16 Feb, 2009



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