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I only have a small(ish) garden so grow most fruit, veg and herbs in pots.
Can't resist unusual things and hope there are others on here who would like to swap stories, hints and tips. Don't care if I only get one perfect specimen; I carried round my beautiful spaghetti squash like a baby!
This year:
18 varieties of tomatoes - mostly cherries, all colours.
9 types of squash, 6 cucumber including Dragons Eggs and white ones.
Roots and tubers include Salad Blue pots, mashua, ulluco, oca, yacon, groundnuts, earth chestnuts, skirret and a few more.
Also walking onions, blueberries, pinkberries, red gooseberries, purple beans, yellow peas, 12 types of mint; if there's room to squish in one more plant ......
Also keen on birds - after 15 years there's over 70 sparrows in the garden, plus robins, blackbirds, blue tits, great tits and goldfinches (although my relationship with pigeons is frosty - I point and click my fingers and they fly away)! Have to watch the sparrows though - if I don't guard the chard with more security than Fort Knox, they strip it overnight ......
Worst habit - buying far more seeds than I could possibly grow.
I only have a small(ish) garden so grow most fruit, veg and herbs in pots.
Can't resist unusual things and hope there are others on here who would like to swap stories, hints and tips. Don't care if I only get one perfect specimen; I carried round my beautiful spaghetti squash like a baby!
This year:
18 varieties of tomatoes - mostly cherries, all colours.
9 types of squash, 6 cucumber including Dragons Eggs and white ones.
Roots and tubers include Salad Blue pots, mashua, ulluco, oca, yacon, groundnuts, earth chestnuts, skirret and a few more.
Also walking onions, blueberries, pinkberries, red gooseberries, purple beans, yellow peas, 12 types of mint; if there's room to squish in one more plant ......
Also keen on birds - after 15 years there's over 70 sparrows in the garden, plus robins, blackbirds, blue tits, great tits and goldfinches (although my relationship with pigeons is frosty - I point and click my fingers and they fly away)! Have to watch the sparrows though - if I don't guard the chard with more security than Fort Knox, they strip it overnight ......
Worst habit - buying far more seeds than I could possibly grow.
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