This used to be a sea of decking when we arrived…what we have now is four 1.2m by 2.4m beds on a four bed rotation (our first time doing this, so you’ll all be laughing when diseases take over!!:). I’m sure it’ll develop slowly…plans are afoot….
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- Version7
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Wow. What an amazing space. Hopefully amazing things will grow out of it!
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Thanks, it’s developed a lot since then actually. I really can’t wait for next year, gonna try to get well into successional cropping…i just need to remember to put stuff in! Ha!
May 8th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
look’s great and very tasty…but what is yout next plan for the garden, what vegetables will we be seeing next?
Where’s the picture of the beans that we heard you’d got?
May 9th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Next, hopefully, everything will start appearing above the soil! I’ll put a plan of what is planted on the ‘Planting Scheme’ part of the site as soon as i have time! Should have ‘edible!; radishes soon, and spinach won’t be long too.
How’s yours coming along?
I’ll post a pic of the beans next week
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Let me first say I enjoy your musings and what a good job you are doing. I am a Johnny come lately to veg growing. I have a small plot in the corner of my back garden 14′ X 15′ alloted to me to grow veg. I have decided to grow in containers and place them as much vertically as I can to maximise the space available. I have taken up 6′X4′ with a freecycle greenhouse placed in the shaddy part againt the shed so I have to think upwards. I am building a step shelf system to store the wine bottle boxes I have adapted to use as containers. This will take up the 6′X15′ space that gets the sun most of the day. I have a few plants from fellow freecyclers this year and hope to sow my own seeds in the years to come. I am writing today to ask if you give much credance to the link on your site that talks about the growing of tomato plants. I glean from it that he believes in growing fruit not leaves. In fact he recommends leaving only 3 to 4 leaves per plant. He rambles on about his Polish Grandfather’s secret and offers an ebook to explain in details how to grow 12′ tall plants. Have you looked into this? What is your opinion? Thanks
July 31st, 2008 at 10:01 am
Hi Ron, welcome, and thanks first of all. 14 by 15 isnt bad eh! When i first started i had a metre square and a couple of pots. But once the bug bites!The upwards way of growing is a good idea, particularly you can buy trailing varieties and climbing of courgette and tomato.
As regards the link, if you could post here specifically i can remind myself. I think its important not to grow too much foliage, and removing sideshoot leaves is a good idea. I havent started this yet, maybe at the weekend. It makes sense really, but im not sure you want to remove too much as the plant will take too much of a hit and die. Im going to do a post on this soon i think, might be useful to others too, after ive done a bit more research.
November 16th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Inspired to read about your raised beds! Could you give me the link for the oak boards you used, please?
best
james
January 15th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Vegmonkey,
Vision 21 are kicking off some local food projects under the banner of Get Up and Grow. We are especially keen to encourage people to grow food even if they only have a very small amount of space and so your success would be inspirational. Are you willing to share your valuable experiences?
Mike
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Hi Vegmonkey,
Very inspiring indeed! I am just looking into having 2 raised beds in our garden. Yours looks superb – can you tell me how deep yours are? Haven’t a clue what to grow yet but I’ll have an experiment this year and see what happens!
Do you think you might be able to email me your veg planner please.
Thanks
Fi.
March 4th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
James – Hiya, if you go onto ebay you should be able to find them.
Fi – Thankyou very much! The beds are only about a foot deep. They were layered with cardboard in the base which kept the initial weeds down but i’m sure have rotted over time. The planting plan probably won’t be much help as it’s just the way we divied out our space…any gardening book can tell you how far apart to plant things, or GOOGLE IT~! The best thing i can recommend is that you read the post i did last week…it’s got grids which show what we are planting, where, and when it needs to be sown. Might be of more use.