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We just bought a shade sail for the garden, it's pretty cool man.
We just bought a shade sail for the garden, it's pretty cool man.
That seems to be the case with anything these days.This is turning out to be expensive.
Will look a lot better when our neighbour replaces his fence.
This is turning out to be expensive.
Ferrous (iron) Sulphate is arguably better and cheaper. It also greens up your lawn and is effective in killing moss. In addition use a feed for rhododendrons.Ericaceous liquid feeder works well, remember to put it on your heathers as well
Depends how much space you have &/or green house.....Spent this afternoon prepping my patch ready for this year, got rid of all the weeds and put a fresh layer of decent compost on top so good to go.
I'm still deciding what to grow, definitely stuff we eat week in week out so I'm thinking onions, garlic, coriander, parsley, maybe cabbage as well.
With the herbs, am I better off putting them in some form of pot or planter rather than just straight in the soil?
Depends how much space you have &/or green house.....
Suggestions for steady Summer garden foods -
Start in pots now, plant out after frost risk is past (end of May)..... Courgette, Dwarf Runner beans
Leeks are good value, better than onions I'd say.... sow now & pot on to go in ground later. I grow loads as they'll stay in the ground over winter.
Perpetual Spinach is good value.... sow direct in ground mid/late March.
Yes coriander, parsley, are easily grown in containers. Cabbage & other brassicas would need to be protected against Cabbage-white butterfly which takes up space & is a pain.
Onions are fun to grown but cheap enough to buy anyway & taste no different when cooked.
Loads of help on-line.... https://www.almanac.com/kitchen-garden-plants-vegetables-containers-and-small-spaces
Always a bit of a toss-up, imo, whether to do this, or go for something 'different' to what is available in supermarkets. My reasoning has always been 'cost, convenience/availability'. While home-grown Coriander, Parsley (go for the flat-leaved/Italian as much better/more flavour) and Garlic have markedly more flavour than shop-bought, many of the 'everyday' veg are at their cheapest/best just when home grown equivalents are coming available.Spent this afternoon prepping my patch ready for this year, got rid of all the weeds and put a fresh layer of decent compost on top so good to go.
I'm still deciding what to grow, definitely stuff we eat week in week out so I'm thinking onions, garlic, coriander, parsley, maybe cabbage as well.
With the herbs, am I better off putting them in some form of pot or planter rather than just straight in the soil?
Watching the 'garden made perfect'.. i m inspired and thinking that we can make a tropical garden at the bottom of the garden. Unfortuantely, it is sloping and falls away from the house and it is has shades from large trees from the neighbours.. So not sure a tropics may work in a shade
Bought the seeds yesterday, just looking into germing them and also going to build a planter for the herbs tomorrow.
Do you think it's worth investing into some form of small lean to greenhouse/shelter or something?
With the amount I'm doing I'll be short of space indoors pretty quickly however I have a large south facing deck I could make use of.
I bought one of the 4 shelf greenhouse / shelters last year, think it only about £25, it has been great, sheltered quiet a lot of plants in it over the winter.