2m x 3m Amateur vegetable patch Week 4 update!

Excellent Blog daughter of mine, sounds like everything is growing a treat down there, look forward to seeing some photo's. bet you wished you had listend to me when I told you to study for science, never mind you can't be clever at everything, x

Thank you! Liked science - didn't like the teacher! x

Hi Pita ..
Well done... you've been busy :o)

What a blog! Humour mixed with lots of growing, pricking out, rainy, windy garden business!! Love the comment about mixing up wild garlic and Lily of the Valley! I have a wee clumps of Lily of the Valley...ooh love the flowers.
Something to do indoors whilst it is raining....You go find all those amusing 70's photos of you Mum.....and scan 'em in to GoY!!

Thanks TT, and no photos Lou - sorry! In my profession you NEVER share photos without the persons permission and that is never going to happen! :D x

You're going to have to use your imagination! lol

Great blog! Glad it's not just me complaining about the weather! My Lily-of-the-Valley are coming up a treat too - compliments of Moongrower and Mr Bulba who sent me some plants last year. Can't wait for them to flower and give out that fantastic scent - haven't smelt L-o-t-V for years!

hi pita nice blog and well done on recycling pots, much better, we can get over run with plastic pots and what do we do with them, who will have them, no-one!
also when you make them they can go right into the ground when ready to plant cant they, also toilet roll middles are good to,
happy gardening :o))

Thanks Nariz - I love L-O-V too but for some reason I can't find it! It's not as if I have acres of land either! Might have to invest as it does smell lush!
Hoping the garlic might also smell 'lush' in a different kind of way!

Sanbaz - I used up all the loo rolls and then couldn't go anymore hence the newspaper! lol ;o)
I did think it would be a good idea to plant them straight in the ground too!

Thanks both x

If you and your Yorkshire relations!!!, visit! I could gift you a wee clump of L of t V! It's going to flower a treat in about a week...........
Loved reading your blog, I giggled at your writing skills..I could imagine it all!

nice blog warm weather gardener..very clever with the pots, give them seedlings some Paul Weller and watch em thrive..

visions of your dancing greenhouse and olympic three stride marathon got me beaming..good luck with the harvest when it comes..

im sure you are your mother-in-laws favourite regardless

Lovely blog Pita, sounds like you have been working hard!! Good that you are recycling and making your own pots...especially as they can be planted straight in the ground...I may have to give it a go! :)

Great blog Pita, very descriptive and amusing with it, I spend ages making paper pots, have one of the little wooden sets, its a godsend for peas and beans, the whole lot goes into the ground so no probs with the roots, also use the inner part of toilet roll/paper towels.
I think Will-I-Am and The Blackeyed Peas are brilliant, never thought that my plants might like them though, I usually transplant to The Three Tenors or Manuel of the Mountains, as long as it works I guess it doesn't matter.
It tickled me to picture you striding around the veg patch, I have to check out all areas daily, even in the rain, lol, the family think I'm mad but they aren't gardeners so do not understand, lol...

Well done:)

You are right about those plastic pots Sanbaz, nobody wants them. We seem to recycle so much these days that I can't believe there isn't some way they could be used. Wrong kind of plastic I guess.

I get my plastic pots from the 'Pot donation' bin at the GC & must have made 100s of newspaper growing tubes. Avid organic re-cycler. Happy Days indeed Pita !
btw: your not alone with beans waiting to be planted out. Greenhouse is choka with different varieties up n running but no way will I risk putting them out at the moment. Next week will be a possibility but it needs to calm down & dry out a touch first.

excellent blog Pita, sounds like you've been really busy :-)

Loved your blog Pita. Your garden and greenhouse sound lovely, and a bit like mine, chokker. Yesterday morning my plastic greenhouse blew over too, with all the plants in, but luckily it rested against the other greenhouse and I managed to get everything upright without losing anything. Bad weather again tonight so have weighted it down with two concrete slabs on the bottom shelf. Hopefully it will still be upright in the morning.

Nice to hear your sewings are successful. Good luck !

It's amazing what we gardeners will grow things in! For me - toilet roll tubes, yoghurt pots, milk cartons (tall for Sweet Peas - laying down with side cut open for Basil), a cracked watering can (great for Nasturtiums), soft cheese pots, egg boxes, mushroom trays, polystyrene meat trays (great for standing pots in to keep warm in winter). In fact anything with an indentation in it will have something growing in it at some point! :o)

I feel so proud when I sit and read all your comments to my daughter, her and her partner worked so hard last year to get the garden how they wanted it so she could grow her veg and salad, I spent my 65th birthday party in their garden and I could not have chosen a better place to celebrate, it was a picture,

Thanks for all the great recycling ideas everyone! Makes it seem so much better when you know you're being creative and not wasting money or the planets resources!

I did chuckle at some of the comments - especially like yours Guy - made me laugh!! Ta muchly! x

Hope the weather is better where you are - its hellish here!
Catch you later - have a goodun!

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