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EADD Gardening Club: Ploughing FUBAR's infertile Fields

Morning Kate. I'd say the same Shambles, also moving them to a spot with a bit more ventilation will help. Its when the air around them stands still that rot gets a grip. If you do pot up put some gravel or small stones in the bottom of the pots for good drainage.

I just spent the last two dry days planting up my plot so at least every time it rains I won't feel as pissed off as i usually do. As I type the rain has started to fall so i'm glad I made the effort. I should have manured it and given the soil a few weeks to settle but left it too late for that. I had a robin stalk me all day so after I planted the onion sets I was pretty sure he was going to pull them all up but this morning they seem to be undisturbed. I'm sure all the neighbour hood cats just see it as one big cat toilet.

So I've got:
Courgettes
Climbing beans
Dwarf French beans
Sweetcorn
Sunflowers
Onions
Carrots
Beetroot
Rocket & Lettuce

And then fruit wise there's apple, pear, plum, cherry, raspberries, redcurrants & strawberries. Now all we need it some sunshine.
 
badandwicked said:
Morning Kate. I'd say the same Shambles, also moving them to a spot with a bit more ventilation will help. Its when the air around them stands still that rot gets a grip. If you do pot up put some gravel or small stones in the bottom of the pots for good drainage.

I just spent the last two dry days planting up my plot so at least every time it rains I won't feel as pissed off as i usually do. As I type the rain has started to fall so i'm glad I made the effort. I should have manured it and given the soil a few weeks to settle but left it too late for that. I had a robin stalk me all day so after I planted the onion sets I was pretty sure he was going to pull them all up but this morning they seem to be undisturbed. I'm sure all the neighbour hood cats just see it as one big cat toilet.

So I've got:
Courgettes
Climbing beans
Dwarf French beans
Sweetcorn
Sunflowers
Onions
Carrots
Beetroot
Rocket & Lettuce

And then fruit wise there's apple, pear, plum, cherry, raspberries, redcurrants & strawberries. Now all we need it some sunshine.
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Agrre with bandw and kate Shambles, also sprinkle some grit over the top of the compost if you got some.

b&w....NICE SELECTIONS! <3.

Respect on growing carrots. Our attempts have always been a bit shit, however we've preepped the soil, tried different spacings, different vars, tried fleece, never any good results though....

and yeah, lol, once you got things planted up therain is always a welcome sight %) , even though it NEVER rains here on the Riviera ;)
 
Thanks MM :)

Thats puzzled me about the carrots, here they grow like weeds it never occurred to me they could be difficult. I've had them crop up between cracks in paving and on grass where I've dropped a seed or two. Maybe the soils too good for them, maybe they thrive on neglect? They don't like manured soil, i know that. What do other people down at the lott say? I've seen them sown like a bed, all over a 4 ft x 4 ft area and thinned accordingly so it can't be spacings. Do you get carrot fly? Just thinking aloud, sorry.

I just braved the rain to take these. Its a neglected garden, or as i like to call it a 'wildlife' garden so please dont judge the debris or weeds :\

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The vegetables, or hopefully soon to be



The soft fruit, need to learn how to thin raspberry canes, I had no idea they spread so much, and protect from the birds. Although i've got yellow raspberries and red raspberries and they tend to leave the yellow ones, i don't think they recognise them.



The strawberries, lots of flowers they seem happy there.



The chicken house, got given the kennel on the left and then got given the coop. It had a red mite infestation they couldn't shift but I got my hands on some creosote (and thus broke a law 8)) which I'm told kills them dead.



There's this pond too so Im tempted to get a couple of ducks to bash the weeds down and eat the slugs and snails. Its so overgrown I'd say about 80% of the water volume is plant matter but its so dense and thickly matted I can't get it out. I put a bamboo cane in and its about a meter deep in the middle I think if I want to sort it ive got no choice but to get in.

 
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Your garden looks amazing B&W looks like a lovely rural spot :) You're very neat in your planting! The pond looks like it could be worth getting into lol, bet you have a lot of wildlife visitors there already.

I'm envious of your new chicken coop, that was a great give :D Yeh I read that ex-battery weren't a good idea for the beginner, which is a pity as it would be nice to give them a new home. Been reading this thread Hey.... Lets keep Chickens..! and will watch out for how you get on too. Felix is being sensible for now saying no to them. I'm working full time+, he's away for work, the garden would need a lot of work to contain them and tbh I don't think this is the right house for us, so a move will be on the cards at one point :\...

In the meantime I'm looking forward to hearing all about yours! %)

My list:-

kale
cabbages
french beans
broad beans
peas
spring onions
leeks
beetroot
swiss chard
rocket
lambs lettuce
butter ball lettuce
carrots
courgettes
radishes

and strawberries
usual herbs + new garlic chives
I've planted nasturtiums for salads too.
 
Ventilation and overwatering sound like likely candidates to me, gardening peeps. Thanks for the tip. It's on me kitchen windowsill but I only open the window when it warm (so fairly often of late) and do tend to feel the need to water it quite frequently. Feels like I'm being cuntish to the thing otherwise. Will toughen up on it's green arse a lil and see what occurs :)
 
I actually did some gardening yesterday. Last year I cut down all my trees and put them in a pile. Yesterday I sawed some of them up and put them in the brown garden waste bin!

The sweat was dripping off my face.

Then I slept - from 4pm till about 11pm.
 
Ha... the trees had to go because they were growing so fast they were getting tangled up in the telephone wires and such like!

Shocking how fast some of these buggers grow. I didn't even plant them, nature conspired. Turned my back and BANG six or seven 10 foot trees in what was a small plot of struggling grass.
 
My neighbour cut down an ancient cherry tree that was technically on her side of the hedge but had most of its bow and trunks in mine. It was like a Queen in the Spring or a big fat gypsy bride with all the blossom and froth. The petals that fell all over the garden and up the path looked magical with the bluebells. She said she cut it down because the blossom was 'too messy'. The woman never even told me she was going to do the deed I just looked out my kitchen window and the tree had just vanished.
I was fucking distraught.. I'm not exaggering.. I love trees and that was a beaut.. Fucking philistine!

My cat used to jump from the shed onto the tree to escape the psycho tom. The day it was cut down I watched her run auto pilot to jump onto a bow that was no longer there. She was alright though lol


Knock I wasnt suggesting you were a philistine for cutting your trees down btw.. this particular tree was really old, bloody beautiful and not causing any other kind of aggravation than covering a side path with blossoms.. which looked lovely but clearly not to my neighbour.
 
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YellowPolkaDotHalo said:
Knock I wasnt suggesting you were a philistine for cutting your trees down btw.. this particular tree was really old, bloody beautiful and not causing any other kind of aggravation than covering a side path with blossoms.. which looked lovely but clearly not to my neighbour.
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Don't worry I wasn't too upset when I read that! ;)
 
Yellow - am totally with you on the loss of the cherry blossom, criminal :| I bust into tears after the storms of last November that brought down the very old laburnum tree in our garden. Last week a neighbour came round with his chainsaw and chopped it up for his wood stove. Gutted :(

Going to have to seed more french beans, the frost has been too much for them - 4 dead / 4 still living but fragile. How come the broad beans are thriving and the frenchies aren't?
 
i think too early for the french beans kate.

We're just planting them now, under cover, and as we always say, our climates are v different. I'd wait a couple more weeks if i was you, and even then maybe start off undercover, or germ in modules on a windowsill now and harden them off slowly.

Broad beans are uber-hardy, i try to plant them in November, but even jan/feb...frost, no problem for the mighty broad bean.

bandw your plot looks ACE!. Not got the views i got, but you tidy, well organised, and your soil looks so finely tilled, beautiful, puts mine to shame.

We thinking about some raspberry canes, someone on another plot has too many, we don't grow any fruit (apart from, errrr, blackberries ;) ), i like your soft fruit collection.....are they fairly easy? Is bird netting pretty much essential? heavy manuring too i guess?
 
ditto on the tree <3 ... last year dad's neighbour cut down an awesome cherry which had been there for about 30 years. I remember it being planted too. roots were making a wall fall apart, a 2ft useless one. cherries are the 1st ones to blossom in spring and always a sight for sore eyes after winter.

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whut composters 'ave you all got, btw?

I'm just trying to tidy up my dad's garden and make it look less messy for him, in the vein hope it distracts him enough not to notice when I keep expanding the flower borders by the occasional half foot.

he's got 3 of these, but they need more air really, and they look a mess because they're not quite big enough for what we have .. and there's always a ton of bags hanging around needing to go in. I'll pass the black ones on to a neighbour when I've found some of the wooden ones that aerate better.
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I'd build my own, but based on the prices I've been looking at for the ones below, it really wouldn't be any cheaper tbh. could use pallets, but even those would be around the same price as premade really



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