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Post by trisha on Mar 24, 2020 19:56:18 GMT
I am working my way round all the borders on the back garden, everything has been neglected for a while.
I have vegetable plants and seeds ordered. Planters have all been emptied in readiness.
Has anyone got a vegtrug? They seem a bit expensive, but they look ideal.
Trisha
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Post by Bellatrix on Mar 24, 2020 20:02:46 GMT
I don't have one Trisha, but reading your post and VWs about planting, has really inspired me to get growing, even if I have to use big pots and grow bags. My borders are crammed with non productive plants and the centre is grassed, the rest paved, so no room for a veg patch. I'll have to get creative.
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Post by trisha on Mar 24, 2020 20:24:18 GMT
www.vegtrug.comB, this is what I have been looking at. When we were younger, hubs would have made one. Trisha
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Post by Bellatrix on Mar 24, 2020 20:49:57 GMT
Oh wow, I love that Trisha! I thought you meant one of those wooden basket style things with a handle. I like that. I wonder if my OH has enough scrap wood in the shed to faddle one together  . We have a problem with slugs Trisha, what do you do to deter them? |
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Post by trisha on Mar 24, 2020 21:59:37 GMT
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Post by vwcamperfan on Mar 25, 2020 8:59:49 GMT
I don't have one Trisha, but reading your post and VWs about planting, has really inspired me to get growing, even if I have to use big pots and grow bags. My borders are crammed with non productive plants and the centre is grassed, the rest paved, so no room for a veg patch. I'll have to get creative. OH built a u-shaped raised planter for my veg - it is ideal, as you can reach all round it without stretching - it's future proof!  |
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Post by vwcamperfan on Mar 25, 2020 9:03:20 GMT
Oh wow, I love that Trisha! I thought you meant one of those wooden basket style things with a handle. I like that. I wonder if my OH has enough scrap wood in the shed to faddle one together . We have a problem with slugs Trisha, what do you do to deter them? Sprinkle eggshells all around the base of plants - that helps deter them.Also if you put a piece of board down in the evening, they will gather under it at night. You can then lift it off and get rid of them. Or even lay a beer trap - sink a jamjar with beer in into the soil- they will go after the beer and fall in. |
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Post by sunnydays on Mar 25, 2020 10:43:22 GMT
You sound like a really well educated gardener VW. I love your veg section. We bought my MIL a veg trug Trisha a few years back for her and it has been a great success due to its height. I was thinking that we could use all sorts of containers for seeds, the milk containers and the veg containers that things have come in I have kept and thought I could use for something ?
The milk ones, I wondered if I put holes in the sides and planted trailing plants if they would achieve the same effect as those you buy ? Will they work ?
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Post by Bellatrix on Mar 25, 2020 10:48:41 GMT
That is brilliant VW, you're OH is a clever guy  ! thanks for all the slug tips too.
Great ideas SD! I've got an arbour type thing which I can hang things from...didn't even think of that |
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Post by Lancashire Lass on Mar 27, 2020 7:47:55 GMT
That is so professional VW. He is a very clever chap! Nice looking trug, Trisha and can see that it would be very useful and easy to look after.
I’ve been in our garden for the last 2 afternoons tidying up mainly and loved doing it. About 4pm yesterday my OH made us a coffee so we sat down for a break in the sunshine. Suddenly the noise of a tractor was upon us and there was the farmer in his field muck spreading with chicken manure!!!! Pooh, it smelt horrid. I grabbed all the washing off the line and took it indoors. Had a good laugh about it as it would definitely keep some people indoors and isolating!
Looks like the last sunny day here for a while so I’ll be out again later. Today’s job is to weed the herb patch and clean the greenhouse.
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Post by vwcamperfan on Mar 27, 2020 8:53:02 GMT
Chicken poo is rank - I hate it - don't mind cow manure though lol. Farmer just up the road has applied for planning for an enormous chicken farm - as you can imagine we have all objected lol
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Post by trisha on May 26, 2020 18:26:00 GMT
 I'm going to try and upload some of my veg. Trisha |
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Post by magggzzz on May 27, 2020 8:29:28 GMT
I’m so impressed. It’s all I can do to keep weeds at bay.
Unfortunately we live next to a railway embankment and occasionally I’ve seen a rat wandering through our garden. I have an empty flower bed and I was thinking of planting some veg in there but I’d be very dubious about eating anything rats have been near. They carry some very nasty diseases.
I am thinking though about not cutting all the bramble bushes and in the autumn I could get jam. I’m still concerned about rats though. I’d have to be very careful.
We have clay soil which is very hard to deal with. Our garden is either a bog or rock solid.
Keep up your good work. It must be great eating your own freshly picked veg.
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Post by trisha on Jun 1, 2020 12:59:18 GMT
Maggzz, I once read that we are never far away from rats.
I find that growing vegetables in containers works really well, so long as you don't forget to water them. I have three water butts that have been keeping me going (we have a water meter). Unfortunately they are all empty now. I think that we may have rain later the week, let's hope it falls at night.
I also have strawberries in a hanging basket.
You still have time for a trial.
Trisha
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Post by vwcamperfan on Jun 18, 2020 9:00:09 GMT
Magggzz - there is a dingle at the bottom of our garden, and rats live in the banks of the brook. Occasionally I may see one down there, but I don't put bird feed in back garden so as not to encourage them - they don't venture to the front where the birds get spoiled thankfully.
Rain today is welcome as garden desperately needed it. Veg growing lovely - can't wait to be able to pick pears off the tree for the first time since I planted it
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. We have a problem with slugs Trisha, what do you do to deter them?
! thanks for all the slug tips too.
