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Gardening - Hey I know it's not for everyone but your grass will still need mowing. With spring fast approaching perhaps we could use this thread to swap ideas and information on matters horticultural amongst interested members of the goat community. We did this last year so some info and tips can be found here

http://www.e-goat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=3278&highlight=gardening

Any new questions on topics not covered fire away the goat community will no doubt pitch in with help and suggestions. :PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
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Still too wet and cold to be doing much but I have been out sterilising everything to get rid of as many nasties as I can. The greenhouses have been emptied, scrubbed and Jeyse fluided. All my pots are soaking in a jeyes bath now ready for next month when I'll start the years sewing.

On the down side I now stink like a seaside town lav:PDT_Xtremez_34:

Just bought 2 sulphur candles one for each greenhouse to kill all the fungus spores lurking in the corners, best tenner I'll spend I reckon.
 
Mrs TBJ and I made a decision a few weeks ago to start producing some of our food. Now when it comes to gardening we are more Charlie Chaplin than Charlie Dimmock, so, if anyone has any tips on where to start we'd be grateful.

We aren't looking for anything too challenging for our first crop and - this year at least - we are limited to what we can grow in pots on the patio or kitchen windowsill.
 
True Blue Jack said:
Mrs TBJ and I made a decision a few weeks ago to start producing some of our food. Now when it comes to gardening we are more Charlie Chaplin than Charlie Dimmock, so, if anyone has any tips on where to start we'd be grateful.

We aren't looking for anything too challenging for our first crop and - this year at least - we are limited to what we can grow in pots on the patio or kitchen windowsill.
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Only grow what you like to eat firstly. No point in loads of something you aren't going to use.

As for easy in pots, I'd say toms, cucumbers, corgettes and cucumbers. They taste will blow you away, compared to the not so "supermarket".

Good forums

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/action=forum
and to do it cheapo like me
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=134


Some container threads
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=600217&highlight=container
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=383018&highlight=container
 
gemarriott said:
Still too wet and cold to be doing much but I have been out sterilising everything to get rid of as many nasties as I can. The greenhouses have been emptied, scrubbed and Jeyse fluided. All my pots are soaking in a jeyes bath now ready for next month when I'll start the years sewing.

On the down side I now stink like a seaside town lav:PDT_Xtremez_34:

Just bought 2 sulphur candles one for each greenhouse to kill all the fungus spores lurking in the corners, best tenner I'll spend I reckon.
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We've had no rain since the back end of November with temps up into the 40's. Tom's are growing great in the hanging baskets out in the garden, Pommegranites are doing well but the urge to water them is sometimes too strong, and still getting a healthy crop of strawberries even this late into summer.

Hope your all enjoying the winter. Best wishes from sunny NZ.:PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
Plumber said:
We've had no rain since the back end of November with temps up into the 40's. Tom's are growing great in the hanging baskets out in the garden, Pommegranites are doing well but the urge to water them is sometimes too strong, and still getting a healthy crop of strawberries even this late into summer.

Hope your all enjoying the winter. Best wishes from sunny NZ.:PDT_Xtremez_30:
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The tide will turn....
 
True Blue Jack said:
this year at least - we are limited to what we can grow in pots on the patio.
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If you can fit a big pot say plastic dustbin size on the patio spuds are a good option. Even if you just use the spuds from the weekly shop as your seed potatoes you can still get a reasonable amount, if you can leave then growing long enough. I always get talked into digging them up a bit early when they are still golf ball size. H2O, TLC and a good layer of organic muck in the bottom and your away. Put about 4 to 6 inches of compost in the bottom put 2 or 3 the spuds on top and cover with another 4 to 6 inches of soil as the tops show through cover with more soil until you fill the bin, bingo spuds all the way down.
 
I've just secured a mahooosive allotment off the council...I think the occaission got to me when I was looking at the three they offered...I just said yes to something akin to Emmerdale Farm and now I have to dig the barsteward...

I'm going to put chickens on it as well so if anyone has any advice or a free hen house to get me started on that project it'll be most welcome...I'm not bothered if I'm not snowed under mit eggs it's the activity I'm after and the learning thingy...Gem already has suggested getting the chucks from one of the intensive chicken farms around Lincoln which would be a nice touch and a better quality of life for a few lucky ones...

If anyone needs the fitness I've got a spare spade and fork....:raf:
 
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You can grow spuds in 12 inch pots. Wilja are good for this. Just keep them undercover till after the frost then stick them outside.
 
Vim_Fuego said:
If anyone needs the fitness I've got a spare spade and fork....:raf:
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Gem fits that criteria, failing that, pay some local kids to get hacking away.



I let the kids grow pumpkins last year but I never realised just how much room the darn things need, they really do spread out. Great experience for the kids, though this year I'll be having them well away from the rest of the veg.
 
A great tomato for pots and window baskets is tumbling tom, available in B&Q.

Cucumbers do better with heat but spuds are fine in pots. A good one is pink fir for novelty value and flavour and charlotte for yield.

Carrots do very well in 12" pots and most varities of lettuce and radish will thrive.
 
True Blue Jack said:
Thanks for the advice so far, folks. We hadn't even considered spuds as an option.
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I grow show quality spuds in black builders buckets. Just make sure they get loads of water and you put plenty of drainage holes in bucket. Sowing to eating 12-16 weeks for most varieties. Don't use expesive compost, growbags emptied into the buckets work fine and don't need any food for 6 to 8 weeks.
 
Dug the veg patch over today spade and a half deep added some good stuff then raked it ready for my early spuds. Moved some shrubs about at the behest of OC house. Noticed all sorts of things starting to move, Clematis, day lillies, hostas, cushion mums ,catkins on the hazels, crocus in flower, grape hyacinth growing well and it's only mid Feb FFS

Heard the annoying whine of the first lawnmower of the year as well 5 doors away yet my patch is way to wet to even consider it. The grass is not growing well enough yet for me anyway
 
I worked out I have to dig 144m2 to complete my plot plan...As of today I'm now 60% of the way through... The broad beans are in...the potatoes are chitting and many and various trays are just showing some life incl. leeks which I'm quite chuffed about...I've found somebody selling the 5 feet panel mesh fencing you normally see around building sites and I've 'found' a shed good enough to keep chickens in so it is all systems go!!

expect I'm going on det tomorrow....bugger.
 
Anyone grown Pentland Javelins before? Are they any good?
 
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