Hello from Sunny (for now) Sheffield!

[Florence Fennel]

Ah, South West Sheffield... I hope to retire there when I have made my fortune.

I feel priviledged that you were generous enough to grace my thread with your presence and I am also thankful for the fact that despite most likely being titled gentry you are humble enough to drop the 'Lady' from your username.

Next you will be telling me that you do your own gardening rather than leaving it all to your man servants

Actually one doesn't have a mercedes or a sauna, but one does have room for a pony if one could stop stealing the lawn for the cultivation of crops Oreight?

[Mr Gardener]

Actually one doesn't have a mercedes or a sauna, but one does have room for a pony if one could stop stealing the lawn for the cultivation of crops Oreight?

Florence, anything you do is fine by me, if I get on the wrong side of the landowners I might end up being chucked out of my Mud Hut.

Anyway, let me introduce you to my humble plot... it's not much to look at but I hope to make enough veg to feed my family after Flo takes her 'taxes' out of my crops...



As previously mentioned I have a 6x10 Greenhouse which I have dug into the ground of to sink some pots - the soil is lousy as I think the builders basically dumped all their spare bricks, metals and machinery at the foot of the garden, so short of digging it all up at uber expense I thought the pots were a good idea!



I also have a similarly (maybe slightly smaller) raised bed which has marginally better soil in it but which I think was raised by the previous owners digging out a pond and therefore large amounts of the raised bed were equally comprised of awful, awful soil (and metal, and bricks...).

I have a small bit of ex-grass at the front which I'm hoping to turn into a decent veg bed but not sure if it has the necessary depth for a lot of the crops I'd want to grow



I also have a climbing arch thingy which grew some pretty impressive climbing beans last year so hoping for more of the same this year. All in all my back garden looks a little something like this.



Finally, to make up for the lack of decent growing space I'm buying some troughs... �40 for 95cm x 50cm x 30cm which seemed good to me; even better if I get the Old Man to buy them with Over-60 ID which gets me a further 10% off!

Wooden Trough Hex Planter from Homebase.co.uk

[bearded bloke]

Looking good there why not grow some sweet peas in with the beans over your climbing arch no garden is complete without a few sweet peas in my opinion

[Nicos]

Hi there..and welcome from me too!
I see you've met our resident nutters!

Just a thought....if you scrape away some of the gravel at the base of the fencing, maybe you could improve the soil quality a tad, then grow up some climbing plants?
Or just add a few tubs and make use of the fence support?

Climbing French beans take up way less space than standard dwarf ones. Runner beans....maybe trail up some courgettes ?

Maybe some trailing tomatoes from hanging baskets off the posts?
There are a few threads on here about vertical gardening.

Not sure if your area is experiencing a low number of bees, but bee/ butterfly/ moth friendly plants will encourage more pollination of your crops...and encourage other wildlife into your garden!

Just a few thoughts to consider whilst you munch on yr toast!

[bearded bloke]

Ditto on the climbing french beans plus a lateral thought,as well as the normal green why not grow yellow & purple varieties as well & get some colour going,both in the garden & on the plate

[KittyColdNose]

There are a lot of people on here from Yorkshire probably because its free.

I emigrated from Rotherham to Aberdeenshire and free is my favourite word in fact, we picked up some blue pipe for hoops yesterday courtesy of freegle. Woo hoo.

Eyup and welcome to vine by the way.

[Tripmeup]

Belated welcome from me...
Every time I tried to post, I got the "thread busy" notification.... What with all the nutters being on and all..

[samuelsapien]

Hello and welcome from the south side of Sheffield.

[crannman]

hi dave here from a very sunny rotherham

[Florence Fennel]

Hello and welcome from the south side of Sheffield.

What's that saying MrG? Something about the shining sun and the righteous?

Welcome samuelsapien by the way!