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EADD Gardening Club: Ploughing FUBAR's infertile Fields

^ See, that's what I used in the past but then everyone assumed I had a swanky garden on my roof, which isn't quite accurate.. It's more of a tatty courtyard with plastic flooring and no decent views ;) I suppose it probably is the best term though. It's pretty lush being on the top floor (I got skylights and everything <3 ) but with patio doors and an outside space, even if it is a tatty one :) Great for growing too. Not only is it sheltered and sunny but there are no slugs or snails %)
 
Absolutely :D I have a mild-moderate snail phobia so it's even more of a winner :)
 
It's not been cold enough to kill the snails off this winter, so far. Bastard things are still sliming about en mass :X

I'm still growing 2012 winter veg :D leeks, kale, tatties and weird baby salad leaves. The winter pansies haven't done well, they really need some snow!

I'm going to be leaving my huge garden next month so I'm tidying things away and putting them into storage, doubt I'm going to get much veg going in 2013, salad stuff probably and flowers. I always have flowers :) This garden was far too big for me, it would be perfect for retirement, but I'm not there yet! I've left the next guardian lots of bulbs, wild flowers, better fed shrubs n' trees, lots n lots of lavenders %) and new veg beds.

The garden at the new place is a town, walled, terraced one. There's a river at the bottom of it, trees too, but its a big slope down - I'm already eyeing bluebells up for it. It'll lend itself to my many terracotta planters. So I'm not out of this thread yet =D

Bit sad tho :(
 
Really good luck with the move kate, its a massive pain in the ass but the new garden sounds amazing. I love walled gardens, if you have a south facing wall can you grow peaches so far north? And the trees and river sound beautiful. You never post pics of your garden but when you get there.... pleeeeeease? And then we can compare to how beautiful you'll have it looking in Spring. I know what you mean about a garden being too big, they take a lot of work. This one sounds ideal.

Hope you've all the cardboard boxes and packing paper you need, are you moving yourselves or getting a lorry?
 
kate, thank god it's a slope down to the river though. how lovely. my god parents pub/house led down to the river as did a great uncle's in ireland. must be why i love the canals so much.

at the mom i doin my best to keep my christmas tree alive. the water keeps freezing in the pot so i have to keep melting it. good sign is when i shook the snow off it few needles fell off.

i decorated it yesterday...for fun!
 
Hey B&W, PP <3

Thank you for the well wishes, the moving is moving, the plants are hibernating!

I kinda got wary of posting pics B&W, my sons have friends and whatnot and I got a bit paranoid and probably should, never mind the job-thing :\ Hence limited pics. It's a pity as I take loads...

Intending to take all of my container garden with me and for 2013 concentrate on it and what else I can do with terrace and wall. The wildlife bit as you should, be left to nature mostly but I can add extra bulbs, help with any infections / problems / feeding in the vegetation there and try and reinstate some sort of path down to the river. It's pretty overgrown and unused :| I keep doing this....though I have leant A LOT these last few years. Mainly don't be too ambitious with gardening - it will always win :D

How are the chooks bearing up with the winter B&W? PICS please %) Which crops are you prioritising for 2013?

It's ok to let water freeze in some pants Pink, they can be dormant over the winter. New growth will need that water in the spring - and food. Remember to feed yer bush in March /April haha :D Do you have a garden PP?
 
Bumpedy bump, just saw your post Kate :) The chickens did great through the winter, they're hardier than I first realised. They hardly slowed down their laying either which was great, maybe cos they're young, next year may be a different story.

This beast was layed 2 days ago, I was really looking forward to seeing if it was a double yolker but went to bed and left them on the coffee table and the bloody dog ate the lot, and he refuses to tell me what was inside. I reckon it was either an ostrich or a dinosaur.

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kate said:
I keep doing this....though I have leant A LOT these last few years. Mainly don't be too ambitious with gardening - it will always win :D
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This is particularly relevant to me right now, I just went to the garden centre and was like a kid in a sweetshop. I wanted to grab everything in sight but held back to just what I can cope with now. I got seed new potatoes, climbing green beans, sweetcorn, beetroot and carrots.

The pots are chitting in egg boxes on the window sill, the sweetcorn & beans are sown in pots and the beetroot and carrots have to wait till it stops raining. I managed to get 50 white and 50 red onions in this morning before the weather turned to shit.

Next up I want to start some dwarf chilli plants indoors.

Inspire me people, tell me how your gardens grow.
 
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I'm tempted to try some dwarf chilli varieties this year, I've grown pimiento de padron, jalapeno. numex twilight, dorset naga and some random long pointy ones from a garden center in the past, but they take up too much space in the ground and growing in pots would free up room for more useful stuff in my garden I think. The novelty of growing random stuff has worn off a bit after a few years growing and now I want a properly productive garden. This winter dragging on until april business has stuffed up my plans though so far, really should have had chillis germinating before the end of march.
 
We've had great success growing chillis in quite small, 3.5litre pots, they don;t need a lot of rootspace to produce well. We pinch ours out after the first couple of nodes to make them bushier, but we grow them in a little polythene "greenhouse" by the house so have height restrictions...but the shelter of the greenhouse means they keep on fruiting, right into December even......
 
Yay spring! My windowsills are stuffed with seedlings, tomatoes are doing nicely and have some chillis and cucumbers on the way. Dying to start my courgettes and tromboncini squash (look it up, it looks amazing) but it's still a bit early for them. And next week I'll be making my DIY polytunnel, which excites me.

If anyone's into the slightly exotic stuff, check out James Wong's collection for Suttons seeds. I've been drooling over it for days.
 
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

In remembrance of Charlie and all of us who are touched by cancer in our lives <3

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Maggie's Centres
Charles Jencks

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I'll be there next weekend and will tie a little ribbon with a bell onto a tree to remember us <3
 
My question is about polly tunnells, and poppies, ornamental poppies of course. The fuckin weather changed at the worst possible moment. If onlt tht sunny spell woulkd have been a month later there could have been a crop.

Result 2 days latr theyre all fuckin brown bread. Wht do poppies hate fuckin polly tunnells so much. Absolutely gutted, as things were looking so promising earlier. Seems to be a very forlotn hop of evr getting the dry conditions when you need them in the UK, but I'll keep trying.

I kind of enjoy tending to my little plantlets, maybe one year they will repay all that loving care and attention i bestow upon them.
 
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I suspect they wouldn't like the humidity and lack of airflow in a polytunnel. I only grow them ornamentally but get decent-sized pods outdoors. Gardening can be pretty disheartening at times, though. Sorry for your loss! :/
 
Gardeners Question Time thread.

Amazed to see that my rose bush has survived an extremely brutal hard prune and complete transplanting and severing of most of its root network. New shoots are growing which means it's survived and is alive and well, I thought i had killed it as the green stems appeared to be turning yellow, but its hung on in there, very resilient thing able to survive that butchering I really am amazed.

Also other rather more productive crops have sprouted in the last few days. There's gonna be a hard frost tonight apparently though, the coldest night of the winter so far, typically once it has officially become Spring. I hope it doesnt kill the tiny new saplings and shoots.

Will temperatures of -3 C pose a threat to the delicate new shoots and tiny little fledgeling saplings ?
 
If you are really worried about weather stick a bin bag over any plants you think are vulnerable for now and pack some protection around its base too?:D How mature is that rose bush? I nearly said your bush...but realised someone would love that. =D
 
swampdragon said:
I suspect they wouldn't like the humidity and lack of airflow in a polytunnel. I only grow them ornamentally but get decent-sized pods outdoors. Gardening can be pretty disheartening at times, though. Sorry for your loss! :/
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I agree, good point
 
Bob Funkhouse said:
That would be pretty glorious indeed. I don't think that I have ever checked a weather forecast in my life. I can't recall a single time....tis always wrong and 10 people a day or summit will tell you anyway
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Im sorry but i have to disagree, the 24 hour forecasts are pretty reliable and spot on these days. Any further ahead than that is very subject to change. We have come a long way since Michale Fish famously said "dont worry, there wont be any hurricanes".
 
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