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Hello there everyone!
I am a 20-something wife and mother of soon-to-be-two. We have bought our house which we hope to live in for about 30 odd years, maybe more. The more important bit of course is that I should be able to have a pretty established and productive pair of gardens in that time too!
So at the moment I am about 5 months pregnant and am thus not doing and awful lot of digging in our frozen ground, but am planning what to grow and where and ordering seeds. My nearly 4-year old and husband are both keen on choosing things they want to eat and then I pick the varieties. I'm hoping over time to save our own seed and hopefully end up with strains that suit our garden.
We have two South-facing plots of a pretty small size, and I'm busy shoe-horning in as much fruit and veg as I can around lawn (ugh) and among flowers.
We have raspberries, a newly-planted stepover apple hedge and two nice big raised beds where we hope to grow onions, potatoes, beetroot, peppers, peas, carrots for a start off. In the back garden we have set aside space for chickens (even though we don't actually own any yet) and I originally found this forum as I was googling about the potential size of kiwi fruit vines as I adore kiwi fruit and would love to try and grow some. Of course, I quickly found out they can soon be thugs. Thankfully our back garden consists mostly of lumps of rock, clay and very dry leylandii roots so it shouldn't be too happy!
Er... sorry for the essay. I'd best be off now...
I am a 20-something wife and mother of soon-to-be-two. We have bought our house which we hope to live in for about 30 odd years, maybe more. The more important bit of course is that I should be able to have a pretty established and productive pair of gardens in that time too!
So at the moment I am about 5 months pregnant and am thus not doing and awful lot of digging in our frozen ground, but am planning what to grow and where and ordering seeds. My nearly 4-year old and husband are both keen on choosing things they want to eat and then I pick the varieties. I'm hoping over time to save our own seed and hopefully end up with strains that suit our garden.
We have two South-facing plots of a pretty small size, and I'm busy shoe-horning in as much fruit and veg as I can around lawn (ugh) and among flowers.
We have raspberries, a newly-planted stepover apple hedge and two nice big raised beds where we hope to grow onions, potatoes, beetroot, peppers, peas, carrots for a start off. In the back garden we have set aside space for chickens (even though we don't actually own any yet) and I originally found this forum as I was googling about the potential size of kiwi fruit vines as I adore kiwi fruit and would love to try and grow some. Of course, I quickly found out they can soon be thugs. Thankfully our back garden consists mostly of lumps of rock, clay and very dry leylandii roots so it shouldn't be too happy!
Er... sorry for the essay. I'd best be off now...
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