Jobs for tomorrow

[Ed]

This patch (photo taken on a very dull day) is our front garden:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/100_1208.jpg

It's 10.5m from the fence to the garage (behind the caravan) and 7.5m wide (fence to drive).

Tomorrow's job is to get rid of the remaining builder rubble and crap (the whitish-gray thing on the left is the old water tank from out the loft) and then start digging it:D We've decided to grow veggies on it and I gotta get my early hardy broad beans in:D The photo is looking south so it'll get the sun (if we ever see it again here:rolleyes:) all day. The caravan is going soon - we've sold it, after living in it for 3 months we can't face having hols in it - so I'll take up the hardstand, I love using a kango hammer:cool: and replace the soil (it's the pile in the far left corner). Also I gotta make a two coldframes that will sit either side of the pier on the brick wall, 1.5m long, 1m deep, 0.8m high. And then make some raised beds, sort of interlocking triangular design.

Chillis already sown in pots indoors and coming up:cool:

Perhaps we should have a 'growing veggies' thread:D

[speedplay]

This patch (photo taken on a very dull day) is our front garden:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/100_1208.jpg



We've decided to grow veggies on it and I gotta get my early hardy broad beans in:D

http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/990/185/39/pPK4GOV6PdIwWpQ.jpg

[Ed]

I don't vote LibDem;)

Anyway I can see that you're all hugely interested, so I have to report that although it ****ed down all night, I have cut the first sod:cool:

[Sid Squid]

Sun?

[keithd]

Big fat gypsy

[BigBaddad]

Big fat gypsy weeding

edited for you.

D'ya like dags

[Milky Bar Kid]

BBD - awesome!

[Ed]

Spose it better nor 'big fat weedy gypsy';)

You'll all be insanely jealous of my veggies. I'm going to torment you with regular pix of life down on the farm:D

[Sir Trev]

Veggies in the FRONT garden? What will the neighbours say?!?!?

Currently waiting for my seeds, onion sets and seed potatoes to arrive from Marshalls. My weekend veg patch jobs include washing the pots ready for sowing, getting some grow bags in, dig in the compost I spread over my raised beds a few weeks ago, turn the compost heaps, wash down the greenhouse before re-installing the staging, and probably lots more...

Send us some "after" pics Ed, and ignore those unbelievers who hum the Good Life theme tune just loud enough that you can hear - I got used to it years ago.

[Ed]

Yes, in the front garden:D Why not??? I don't care what the neighbours say, they think me a bit odd anyway:jocolor:

[Luckypants]

they think me a bit odd anyway:jocolor:Is that why there is a For Sale board in the background of the first photo? :D

[maviczap]

Is that why there is a For Sale board in the background of the first photo? :D

Not because of the growing veg in the front garden, its because he's a motorcycle 'ooligan ;)

The local chapter will be rolling along soon to take over the neighbourhood :D

[speedplay]

Is that why there is a For Sale board in the background of the first photo? :D


Probably went up the same week as chateux pikey arrived.

[Owenski]

We've been doing our own veggies for a few years now (although there wont be a harvest this year due to the baby). Its greatly satisfying eating your own produce Ed - Start a green fingered thread for tips advice etc, might be handy.
My top tip, make your growing poles mobile ie dont sink your bean growers into anything solid that may prevent you from relocating them next year. This is because we were given the same advice based on getting better results in your crop if you rotate all your veggies around the patch each year - worked a treat last year.

[Quiff Wichard]

there is a house in road next to us on an estate ... front garden all laid out formally in beds with sleepers.. and all types of produce grown.. looks a bit "odd" but its different.. we have a lovely front garden but I often think it for the benefit of the neighbours looking at it and not us.. so why not grow stuff useful in it.?

[Bluepete]

That's not the house I knnocked on!

Pete ;)

PS, getting back to the allotment now. Lots to do.

Ed, you sorted some chickens yet?

[Teejayexc]

...Its greatly satisfying eating your own produce ..........


EEuuww, can't you be arrested for that?

[kwak zzr]

i'll give your a pound for a BIG bundle of runner beans :)

[darylB]

If you want the ground preparing for veggies then go buy a couple of piggies, the ground will be cultivated and manured ready for planting, and at the end you'll have plenty of pork for the deep freeze.:D

Daryl.