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    Having been made redundant in April I decided I needed a project to keep me motivated while looking for a new job, so I decided to dig up half my lawn and create a vegetable patch.
    Thanks to a little advice from my Mum and a lot of advice from you 'Grapes' I'm over the moon with the look of the patch now.

    All this hot weather has got it looking extremely healthy. And I'm even more impressed as it's my first time growing anything beyond some standard window-sill herbs.

    Before: Just after I'd removed the turf, 29th April '09

    After: As it looks today, 6th July '09

    I've had lots of delicous rocket and radishes from it, and have just started harvesting the spinach.

    Can't wait for the other veg, it's all so exciting!

    Clock-wise from the back-left
    Tomatoes - Unknown Variety
    Squash - Butternut
    Potatoes - Unknown Variety
    Peas - Kelvedon Wonder
    Lettuce - Salad Bowl
    French Beans - Tendergreen
    Lettuce- La Foglia
    Runner Beans - Enorma
    Shallots - Unknown Variety
    Carrots - Early Nantes 2
    Spinach Beet - Perpetual Spinach
    Beetroot - Boltardy
    Radishes - French Breakfast 3
    Parsley - Moss Curled 2
    Broccoli - Early Purple Sprouting
    Cabbage - Primo II
    Cauliflower - All the Year Round
    Swede - Best of All
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    Last edited by OllieMartin; 08-07-2009, 02:49 PM.
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  • #2
    That looks great! You've got me eye-ing up my lawn now, lol!

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    • #3
      Does look good, and I'm feeling a tiny bit jealous because I'm still growing in pots.
      Location....East Midlands.

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      • #4
        Fantastic work Ollie, you'll be amazed how productive a plot that size can be!

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        • #5
          That looks different! I see you still have a bit of lawn left - chickens?
          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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          • #6
            That's tremendous, look at all that extra growing space just under the remaining lawn.!
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            • #7
              Looks great, cant wait to get my allotment all sorted now.
              I hate slugs!!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Flummery View Post
                That looks different! I see you still have a bit of lawn left - chickens?
                I had considered that, all the eggs and chicken meat, but then I really can't stand chickens, they freak me out!

                Was thinking rabbits! What do rabbit eggs taste like?

                EDIT: Oh, and thanks for all the positive comments. Suggestions also welcome
                Last edited by OllieMartin; 29-06-2009, 09:24 PM.
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                • #9
                  Brilliant gardening and in such a short space of time. looks so professional as well.
                  Don't get rabbits if you want to keep your garden looking like that in the future, they will tunnel their way out of anything.

                  And when your back stops aching,
                  And your hands begin to harden.
                  You will find yourself a partner,
                  In the glory of the garden.

                  Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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                  • #10
                    WOW! That look super Ollie Martin! So neat and tidy! (& weed free!) I have netted panels round my growing area to keep cats off bare soil and also our chickens out. I throw netting over them which this time of year is handy to keep Cabbage White Butterflies out!

                    I'm thinking of getting some cheapy net curtains or making use of some voile curtains I bought as a butterfly inhibitor as I have mixed stuff in my beds and the peas and sweetcorn will grow taller than the panels and I if I take off netting I fear I will get lacy pakchoi.

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