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Gardeners' thought

You CAN have a veg plot even with just a tiny portion of your garden...

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Even though my garden is fairly big it is situated on the side of a hill and over limestone rock. The only piece we have...

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homebird

15 Jul, 2011
Homebird

want a little walk ? you will need your wellies and winter coat.

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went up to the allotment yesterday,do you fancy a walk round? bit windy and cold but first chance we,ve had to get up here...

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joanella

27 Nov, 2009
Joanella

The Carrot Crunch

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This year I decided to start a veg patch and thought the unproductive left hand side of my garden would be perfect. First...

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faeriefay

30 Jul, 2009
Faeriefay

Garden 14th June 2009

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Thought I would creat an update of garden so I can look back when it gets cold. So far I have had strawberries, baby turnips...

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maccrimmon

14 Jun, 2009
Maccrimmon

My new veg garden

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Well I have been gardening for over 60 years now and have always been very successful in growing plants and flowers and...

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tonyb158

17 May, 2009
Tonyb158

hello my friends xx

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wow! it has been a while since i last wrote a blog i apologise!!! so... hello to all and thank you for all your messages...

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ickledigga

12 Jan, 2009
Ickledigga

spring has finally come!

Well, the snow is gone and we are working like madmen in the yard. I decided to go with a 8" raised veggie garden that...

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Michelle1

29 May, 2008
Michelle1

Impatient

Yes That's me. I have planted all of the boxes in my patio garden and everything is growing fairly well, peppers are setting...

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wohlibuli

28 May, 2008
Wohlibuli

pics

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Wasn't too hard to get help, If it's computer related he loves it. Computers are his life. So after the little storm was...

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wohlibuli

24 May, 2008
Wohlibuli

patio garden

Last summer my husband found a book called square foot gardening and he put together a small garden for me so I could have...

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wohlibuli

22 May, 2008
Wohlibuli

fleeced up and scared of frogs

Briefly heard on the radio that their would be frost tonight and four the next four days I think. Checked on bbc weather...

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Carolyn

18 May, 2008
Carolyn

Square foot plot -getting crowded and green

My seeds are growing, the lettuces, some three types are nearly ready to pick and come again. Have started thinning out...

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Carolyn

6 May, 2008
Carolyn

Welcome to my veg garden!

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Here's my veg garden! We moved in our new house in November last year and my other half (who's a carpenter by trade)...

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lilydee05

6 May, 2008
Lilydee05

should we add raised beds to this lawn?

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We have been thinking about adding raised beds in this lawn, problem is that the lawn is a funny shape! the edge near...

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RachelScott_Renouf

4 May, 2008
Rachelscott_renouf

what a busy week

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i've not had much time this week to catch up with everyone but I have been thinking of you all while I was working! at last...

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ickledigga

4 May, 2008
Ickledigga

exhausted!

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Had a hard days work in the garden today! thought i'd start with an easy job so watered all the greenhouse and polytunnel....

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ickledigga

15 Apr, 2008
Ickledigga

Square Foot Garden 2008

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I cannot believe how quickly the growing seasons change. Last week it snowed (really unusual in Hampshire) and this week...

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Genuisscuffy

13 Apr, 2008
Genuisscuffy

Warming ground and killing weeds

Made some progress in the garden in February and feeling good.... Filled up the two plots - Filled one plot with organic...

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Carolyn

29 Feb, 2008
Carolyn

Nearly there

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Well I finally got one part of the plot hammered together and in place, started again on Friday in my new welly boots I...

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Carolyn

10 Feb, 2008
Carolyn

Raised Veggie Plot continued saga.....

Finally did a bit in the garden this week, hooray. I cleared the rest of the garden cuttings/weeding pile into recycling...

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Carolyn

30 Nov, 2007
Carolyn

Raised vegetable Plot

Well not logged in in a while, gosh some people have been busy it seems. It seems to have got very rainy down here in Southampton,...

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Carolyn

19 Nov, 2007
Carolyn

Raised Vegetable Plot

Having been inspired by the on line square foot garden on this site I am trying to do something similiar. So far got the...

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Carolyn

5 Nov, 2007
Carolyn

maisymulcher introduces herself

hello fellow growers, I am new to computers so you will have to bear with me. But I am an old hand at growing veggies, and...

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maisymulcher

4 Oct, 2007
Maisymulcher

Square Foot Gardening

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The Winter Clear-out has begun! You know when you get to the end of a season, and you look back and think of your successes...

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Genuisscuffy

23 Sep, 2007
Genuisscuffy

COMPOST

As I installed 2x1 metre square raised beds, I of course needed compost. In one I put non-peat compost in the other a peat...

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Hamish

9 Sep, 2007
Hamish

Square Foot Gardening

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I thought I would update you on how my Square Foot Garden has done over the summer. I am really pleased with the produce...

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Genuisscuffy

15 Aug, 2007
Genuisscuffy

Square Foot Gardening(2)

I'm really pleased this year as to how much my garden has grown in really quite a small space-baring in mind I have three...

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Genuisscuffy

8 Jul, 2007
Genuisscuffy

Square Foot Gardening

This is something started 25 years ago by an American guy called Mel Bartholomew (who has several books out on the subject)...

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Genuisscuffy

11 May, 2007
Genuisscuffy