I love the growing season!

We only have a small garden, but we try to grow as much food in it as we can.
I thought I'd share some pictures with you here.

Please feel free add your own gardening pictures ...

Here is our garden in its full glory! Taken this morning from the upstairs window:



The soft fruit patch (strawberries, blackberries, white currants and gooseberries)



The runner beans (only just taking off):



The rhubarb, nexy to the home-built 'wormery'

A lot in our garden is home-built or recycled.

Our recycled water storage (made from an old oil drum). Rain water is collected from the roof.



Potatoes growing in old tyres:



The raised bed with tomatoes (front) and lettuce (back).

Greetings Glo,

Congrats, you just created the first gardening thread!

Strawberries, blackberries, white currants and gooseberries WOW!

I love the first two. I've never seen white currants and gooseberries taste too bland for my liking. Have you ever tasted mulberries (shahtoot in paki lingo) Oh Glo, they are the tastiest berry in the world. Please grow them! lol


My garden is full of weeds and the earth to hard to dig, so not much going on there to post about


Peace dear sis x

Oh and what's a wormery? Do you breed your own worms or sumthing

Hehe.. it's still rather bigger than mine, though!

Oddly enough, after years of neglect the Mrs and I have finally turned our attention to gardening and I had a vanload of new sand, soil, compost and such delivered this morning ready for the holiday weekend. We are trying to grow food as well, the store prices have gone through the roof recently and whereas in the past I doubt it would have been economical it certainly is now.

P.S If anybody has any tips about how to keep slugs away from salad plants without harming them (both slugs and salad), please let me know!

It's surprising how much food you can grow, even in a small space ...

Good luck with your gardening!

We try to attract wildlife into our garden.

Our nest box. (A couple of bluetits are raising their young at the moment)



The hedgehog house



The beehouse (for solitary bees)

It's really just a compost bin.

But I suppose you are right ... we feed the worms with kitchen waste, and they breed and turn the waste into compost for us ...

Just for you, sis, I have taken a picture of the inside of the wormery. Prepare yourself!!!

Do you have hedgehog in the house

^ Not in my house, Tania.

But we do have hedgehogs visiting our garden in the summer. They can be pretty noisy! And they are great, because they eat slugs and other pests.
The hedgehog house is full of straw, so they can rest during the day or even hibernate in the winter.

We only built the hedgehog house last summer, and no hedgehog spent the winter in it. A whole lot of enormous spiders did instead.

wow u must b really takin care of it love the oil drum nd tyres tho wiked

I asked because i saw the pic with the hedgehog house and i didn't know if its empty or not. I like them . - they are very cute.
Why you didn't plant the potatoes in the land

We don't have much space.
Plus, you can stack tyres up and continue to fill them with soil. As the plant grows up towards the light, it continues to grow longer roots - and therefore more potatoes.

It means you can easily pick up the potatoes from soil, removing the tyres (in the end). I have a very small garden and i put nothing until now there (just finished to build the house and i have to clean the land), so i am looking forward to arrange the green space with maximum benefit

lol Ohhhh myyyyy! Thank God I have a strong stomach.