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Thank you all for the advice you've given me so far re: the allotment. It's starting to look like a proper plot lately, which is great.
I'm also trying to work out how best to make use of the garden space we have. It's very limited in a bunch of ways, but I'd love to do something better with it. Every year I try and make it look nice with potted plants and every year I'm disappointed with the results.
The situation is:
I've created a little map of it on VegPlotter here. Imagine the left-hand side of the image is the south side of the garden. I've only included my portion of the space.
Now, I know we can do something decent with the space. The more we can use plants to add height the better for creating a green space without filling up what little ground area we have, the better. But the inability to put anything in the walls makes this tricky - In the past I've had trellis propped up by jamming it behind a bunch of large pots, but we still end up with it leaning over alarmingly and inevitably getting damaged.
The little brick-built shed does have a flat roof, so in theory we can stick pots up there and have trailing plants, but watering them can be a bit of a pest as they seem to dry out fast up there!
I'm not worried about *what* we grow so much as just having some green around us - my allotment should do us well for veggies and such now.
I'm also trying to work out how best to make use of the garden space we have. It's very limited in a bunch of ways, but I'd love to do something better with it. Every year I try and make it look nice with potted plants and every year I'm disappointed with the results.
The situation is:
- Technically shared with next door - in practice they tend to their half and I to mine, but we have shared use of the laundry lines that are all on my side.
- My side is 14ft x 11ft
- Entire space is paved over
- Area given above includes the space taken up by a brick-built storage shed approx 3.5ft x 7ft
- Surrounded on 3 sides by 2-storey walls
- Southern end opens onto the neighbour's half of the shared space, which is about the same size, ending with a fence blocking off from the next house.
- Surrounding walls are painted white - we get short sunlight due to the walls but what we do get is reflected back into a decent heat-trap with comparitively little wind
- As the buildings around the house are listed we cannot hammer anything new into the walls, but there are a small number of pre-existing nails and hooks we can use. Wall of our own house is also listed and wood panelled so really cannot do anything to it at all.
I've created a little map of it on VegPlotter here. Imagine the left-hand side of the image is the south side of the garden. I've only included my portion of the space.
Now, I know we can do something decent with the space. The more we can use plants to add height the better for creating a green space without filling up what little ground area we have, the better. But the inability to put anything in the walls makes this tricky - In the past I've had trellis propped up by jamming it behind a bunch of large pots, but we still end up with it leaning over alarmingly and inevitably getting damaged.
The little brick-built shed does have a flat roof, so in theory we can stick pots up there and have trailing plants, but watering them can be a bit of a pest as they seem to dry out fast up there!
I'm not worried about *what* we grow so much as just having some green around us - my allotment should do us well for veggies and such now.
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