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I've been lurking around for quite a while as I'm not a big talker but thought I'd finally say hi.
I started last year while sitting having a bbq and looking at a bare/weedy bit of the back garden and thinking I could grow something in there. I've no idea at all where the impulse came from but a few weeks later I had peas (most failed), carrots (great and huge!), onions (spot on), cauliflowers (mostly blown or caterpillar food) and cabbages (for those caterpillars that liked variety).
Still it was enough and this year I built 6 raised beds and went to town growing most things. Some went surprisingly well, like pots, sweetcorn, parsnips and beetroot. Others like carrots faired less well, I think I have them too cramped. All my brassicas are now skeletons, but I'm hopefully that I may still get something from some of them (I did get ONE cauliflower).
Hopefully next year I'll learn from this years mistakes and protect the brassicas a lot better.
I've now got my name down at a couple of allotment sites, but wish I'd done it when I first got the bug, rather than foolishly deciding to wait and make sure it wasn't going to be a fad first. From what I can gather I'd probably have one by now rather than being at the end of a long waiting list
I started last year while sitting having a bbq and looking at a bare/weedy bit of the back garden and thinking I could grow something in there. I've no idea at all where the impulse came from but a few weeks later I had peas (most failed), carrots (great and huge!), onions (spot on), cauliflowers (mostly blown or caterpillar food) and cabbages (for those caterpillars that liked variety).
Still it was enough and this year I built 6 raised beds and went to town growing most things. Some went surprisingly well, like pots, sweetcorn, parsnips and beetroot. Others like carrots faired less well, I think I have them too cramped. All my brassicas are now skeletons, but I'm hopefully that I may still get something from some of them (I did get ONE cauliflower).
Hopefully next year I'll learn from this years mistakes and protect the brassicas a lot better.
I've now got my name down at a couple of allotment sites, but wish I'd done it when I first got the bug, rather than foolishly deciding to wait and make sure it wasn't going to be a fad first. From what I can gather I'd probably have one by now rather than being at the end of a long waiting list
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