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Hi I have a section at the end of my garden that I can easily start growing my own . I started just with some rhubarb plants my dad gave me and a couple of gooseberry bushes and I have just seeded a couple of peppers and placed the seeds in seeding pots. My daughter wants to make me a better area so has obtained some wood donated by friends ....I think she is going to make large cube pots and fill with dirt so I don't have to bend all the time. This is my mother's day gift bless her. We really don't know what is easy to grow and I just love growing things from your own seeds etc . Any ideas out there as I'm sure we have to start soon with some items . Kind regards and happy gardening .....oh I have my water butt and a composted and a large tin to burn rubbish ......I'm loving it !
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Re: New to growing your own
Courgettes and things in that family are usually quite easy to grow although I usually start them inside what about herbs mint takes off like the clappers and chives and parsley too I take rosemary cuttings too.... put you tatties that get eyes on them in the ground they ll grow
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Thankyou I have mint in a pot so it doesn't become a weed . All great advice . She's come home with a crate and some wood and an old bike wheel . I have no idea what's she's doing as I'm not allowed . She's collecting unwanted items that she can recycle in the plot to make it look good . I'm so pleased really as she travels a lot and she's home for a few months before her job takes her elsewhere . It will be looked after and make me smile when I think of all the work she is putting into this . Thanks funky chick x
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Re: New to growing your own
That's lovely it will have good memories yes mint can go mad There are quite a few varieties too Apple mint is nice
There's some good gardeners on here so I m sure you ll get more ideas
There's some good gardeners on here so I m sure you ll get more ideas
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Goodness me there are some lovely people in lowestoft we have had some wood and palettes given to us and tomorrow she's off to inspect some more that she can have . Even an old pot of fence paint came in handy and Lord knows what's she doing but I see an old cycle wheel go up there . I'm so intreeged ..all I can hear is hammering lol still its keeping her busy .
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You know we ll expect a photo when it's finished
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I will take some for sure
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Re: New to growing your own
Hi Peanut. every success to you with your gardening, please excuse me when you say you will fill you containers with (dirt) better fill them with compost or good old garden soil with plenty of peat and some pea shingle or grit for drainage and all will be well.
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I was so pleasantly surprised ....in tears on mothersday ...just Trying to work out how best to send the pics
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Here is pictures 1-3 the unwanted wood collected
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Pics 4-6 some tyres we collected and my daughter painting and building
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Pics 7-9 more building and collection of stones to create a rock concert
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Re: New to growing your own
Someone's been working hard.Dpeanut wrote:.....more building and collection of stones to create a rock concert
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10-12 rhubarb and gooseberry bush plot with grass removed and people's being laid ....rhubarb rock concert and my long row of strawberries. ...tyres have a wheel on top for runner beans to grow on the net up. And rosemary and curly parsley in the other tyres . Next to the tyres are a box for parsnips to grow
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13-15 close up of the tyres and the wheel ,net.and something is being created over there with a ladder .....it's the flower bed too funny this girl....a pot for mint so it don't grow wild ....I have since added a rasberry bush in a pot oh and some beetroot are in there in another box by the rock concert . More to be done but she's on holiday for 3 weeks . Any more ideas welcome and anything you may think would help . Gosh I cried so much at her hard work . I love made gifts but never expected that!!!!! She laughed and said she wished she stuck a score in the card now
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