Any ideas? Kitchen Garden

Not sure about veg, make a super Rose garden they don't mind a few stones,and you have plenty horse Poo to dig in,you could grow prize winners

Oh yes !! this is my kind of gardening Lulu. I like flowers but walking round my garden you'll see immediately that I'm an avid fruit n veg chap, raised beds everywhere, 35' polyT, 30' walk-in fruit cage & a couple of greenhouses all growing things you can eat. Your new veg patch is perfect, good light & an open aspect, excellent start. I have to contend with deep shade which does lessen produce but not my enthusiasm. My neighbour has horses & stable manure is the best of the best so as much as I want for nought.
Dividing with paths is the right thing to do, you wont regret that when its wet.
Basically its so simple, plenty of compost in any shape or form & keep a hoe ready so you can tip the weeds as they appear, which is really quick so little n often works for me
The next bit is the best, designing with cartoons & doodles over the winter just what you want to grow & where, very theraputic.
And then next year all the swearing starts as all your plans fail & the plant nibblers win, I love it.
I kid I kid !! I can see low french beans growing round the edges with salad stuff & taller runner bean wigwams in the centre, swiss chard showing off their multicoloured stems plus peas, gotta have peas. Im excited just looking at that blank canvas. Magic ! hard work went into that patch did'nt it ? :-))
ps: stir-fries with fresh picked beans, peas, baby onions etc is so easy & I personally grow herbs in pots as they can overtake the ground, looks real good too.

lol Bjs...not very tasty though.....unless you harvest the hips and make syrup! I think Railway sleepers is a great idea Lulu, that's what I have around my kitchen garden area and it works well.

lol Bampy! Great enthusiasm! I have to contend with shade also, and it certainly curtails a lot of my veggie dreams!

bampy that sounds fantastic!! lovely picture lulu!

i was thinking grasses cos they would sway so beautifully in the breeze ~ till i read bampy's comment then i wondered about herbs? with some of those veg too?

you could always add a rose and some lavender?

LoL Bampy, thanks for all your enthusiasm! My shoulder hurts just looking at it!
Dug a third today and will again tomorrow.
Tomorrow will also go see how much the hard wood sleepers are, all 28 meters of it....or should I just leave the edges.....need to bunny proof though...how to make chicken wire look pretty? D says there might be some keep safe hanging around the stud...am sure I wouldn't have missed all that meterage hanging around!!

It's lovely and sunny until about 5pm.

I see chard and tatties and salads and onions and khol rabi, those bushy beans, peas, broad beans...........

can I make juice out of my rugosa rose hips?!

I love scented roses BJ but they dont like it here, or they dont like me :-/
Thornless Zepherin Druin did well for a while, what a scent they have but unfortunately gave up along with Graham Thomas, Madame De buchard & New Dawn to name but a few. Well grown they are priceless, perhaps I'm just not romantic enough for them ???? Grow great garlic though !!!!!! Happy days LOL :-)))

Oh yes..lots of garlic too!

Bampy, how do you keep the bunnies away?

Lovely veg space there loos, was just going to say might need a bit of net or fence around the outside, six raised beds sounds great.
I would decide all the things you would like to eat/grow, taek into account all the chutneys n tinctures you'd like to try, sprinkle some fairy dust from the bamboo grove, add a bit of bling and bobs yer uncle : )

Oh for a magic wand! Not that i'm lazy....just sore!

Total coincidence you mentioning rabbits Lulu, one bimbled down our front drive day before yesterday, great excitment, thats two that I'v seen here in 21 years. Its part walled garden the rest being net fencing with hedges so no access. This one came down the road & into the drive. It also stops hedghogs which I regret but we are in the middle of fields n small woods so they have all they need but I miss seeing these all too rare animals now.
Wattle fencing looks terrific round a veg garden but too expensive & it has a certain shelf life. Green garden net abit easier on the eye & pocket possibly. How would your pointers resist helping you dig the veg patch when your not looking Lulu ?? LOL ;-)))

Sounds like a good work force Bamby.

sure does L !

This is beginning to look like an expensive job!
Yes,, it will have to be puppy proofed as well as bunny!
Needs to be up and running by November so I can plant spring cabbage and broad beans!!

Pallets make a good looking gate : )

I was wondering when pallets would be mentioned!

This sounds like a fascianting project, please do keep us up to date with developments! and take lots of pics on the way for a future "how I did it" blog?

well was thinking net + pallet gate but come to think of it a lowish pallet barrier (knees) for the dogs with a bit of net (to hips)

Bring 'em on!

i keep looking for the photo i took of a garden in evesham, cant find it yet but it had the perfect little fence for you!

Do you remember how it looked?

yes, roughly i think it was made of small wooden frames with chicken wire or similar across them, it looked as if it could be taken away when required and had i think, a double gate at the entrance, made in the same way with the wire and wood.
it just looked like a little country fence, pretty but kept out rabbits. about 2 foot high~ puppies could jump over that im sure!!!

Don't think puppies could be bothered! I'd need to make lots of frames, the patch is huge!

this was quite big too, but maybe the easiest way to do it ~ in several parts ~ they had grass thru the middle in a + pattern but the fence only around the outer rim.

anyone got lots of pallets?

A pallet party!

brilliant idea!!!!

i found the photo!!! i havent remembered it quite right but im putting it on for you now

Heavy in the car those pallets!
off to see photo, then make David's soup from the left over grouse we were given yesterday and maybe....off to the studio!

Party?, whos bring the food? ; )

well.......someone we know can make chutney!!! AND pilaff!
someone else is fabulous with quiche and garlic bread
someone else makes lovely chocolate brownies
and i could bring something?

Just a thought Lulu, you could have a polytunnel down the one side where the grass is thus taking care of fencing off one side (somewhere to have the party ; )

Not sure Stevie, very high winds here and probably won't need one 22' long!
I am being a bit indecisive about this patch.....everything I like is going to cost!!! rather a lot!

how about a wind farm ~ that should give you some money to build whatever fence or polytunnel you wanted??

BUT im sure you wont want those massive pylon things too near ~ you would have to disguise them somehow ~ mosaic???

A mosaic turbine!
About to try a rotivator on it!

Isn't it raining there? Feels like gale force wind here!

No rain but a bit windy. Am trying very hard to do no gardening today as my sore bones really need a rest!

Feet up lulu! Make nice soup instead!?

hmm tomatoe soup : )
I dug the polytunnel yesterday, rotivator! that cheating ; )

It's not cheating in this ground!!
David made soup yesterday!
I might tie back my Honeysuckles though!