Grow Your Own Magazine

what a useless blogger I am. I really must try and keep up to date this year.

I'm trying to decide whether to get a 2nd greenhouse or a poly tunnel

other half thinks a poly tunnel will suffer in the winds that cross our garden sometimes.

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yippee I can't believe it getting so excited over a vegetable

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My Cold frames - I'm thinking of replacing the plastic ones with stronger structures as I find I'm having to constantly renew them. The zips always seem to go first and a cold frame that won't close is useless

Leeks, Celery and the replacement sweetcorn plants

Catch crop of baby lettuce

Brussels growing nicely - this is a first for me as last year I couldn't keep them going

My next project - using the frame from a plastic coldframe I plan...

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Lets see what else we may have growing nicely already.

A few early lettuce

Peas already with flower

Carrots

Radish & Beet

Baby lettuce - so sweet

and a lonely Courgette that I started on damp paper.

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well no garden is complete without one surely

Because we rent we decided that fruit trees would have to be dwarf varieties in pots but we never really had any results that way so we bit the bullet and planted them along the side of the house. We have a Plum, an Apple, an Apricot, a Cherry ( in blossom for the first time) and a Pear (just waking up). There are also soft fruits, the gooseberry and strawberries as shown before and if you look close at the veg plot pics you may spot...

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