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  • Hello! Noob from Scotland, here...

    Hiya! We live in Western Scotland (Vale of Leven) and have just started vegetable gardening. Well, we started late last summer, digging and building our beds. We love it!

    DH enjoys the work, especially. The funny thing is that neither of us have any real interest in non-food gardening. We mow the front lawn and trim the hedge when it looks bad, but the back garden is all being turned into beds. (With a few daffodils and roses at the back fence.) I love watching the plants grow, but they're really only interesting to me if you can eat them.

    We've got eight raised beds. Two of them are 1x3 meters and the rest are somewhat smaller. (Probably .8 x 2.5 meters or so.) The back of our garden goes up a steep slope, but that's the best bit of sun, so DH is terracing it so we can have four more beds next year.

    We're growing all the usual stuff. Most things are doing very well so far.

    Nice to meet you!

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    Hello, nice to meet you too! I'm afraid it does get you like that - wanting to grow edibles. Don't forget you can eat a lot of flowers too! I make spectacularly colourful salads with day lily and rose petals, borage flowers, nasturtium leaves and flowers, pot marigold petals - loads more too. One of my friends said, "This is the only place I come to where they feed you flowers!" She's stared doing it now!
    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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    • #3
      Hello and a warm welcome to you. There really is nothing like eating what you grow. Its great! I agree with Flummery though, don't miss out on the edible flowers, they can add so much to the plate!
      A good beginning is half the work.
      Praise the young and they will make progress.

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      • #4
        Hallo and welcome to another grape from this neck of the woods!
        I do agree with you, it's hard to think about flowers when there is so much edible stuff to grow. Of course companion planting will give you the best of both worlds - and don't forget the herbs

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        • #5
          Hello and welcome..... i grow lots of different varieties of broad beans(they smell wonderfull), also runner beans and peas... you can't eat the flowers but they look fantastic, they also attract lots of bees into the garden.

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          • #6
            oh, flowers are nice. What I really don't get are people who get excited about non-flowering, non-edible plants.

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