quick update on myself

hi all

i'm doing a lot better now moving freely and taking less and less pain killers each day so hopefully not to long before i can get back in the garden :) bought some canes today for my bean plants and bought some sugar snap pea seeds.

lawless

disaster strikes

hi all

Just as we were starting to get somewhere with the garden, I have to go an contract appendicitis and have to have my appendics removed! So no garden work for at least 3 weeks. Which is a major blow for us, but we have 3 raised beds to be getting on with. One filled with spuds, 1 with onions and an empty bed as yet. So just to warn things are going to be slow for a little while whilst I recover from the op!

lawless

busy day today

Been a busy day today in the garden, we pulled apart the large pallets that we are using to make our raised beds, the planks of wood used to make the pallets are conveniently 2.4 metres long which is the length of our raised bed, and the width is 1.2 metres so its just a case of sawing the planks in half for the side lengths. because of the width of the planks we are doubling them up to make the sides of the beds. I dug in the 3rd raised bed that was just sitting on the soil until today and we dug in a bag of compost into the 2nd raised bed. we started digging over the 3rd bed as well. On friday we will be ordering a bulk 1 tonne bag of topsoil to fill the beds with and a bag of compost per bed.

lawless

the grapevine

For growers out there who are looking for a place to come and chat and ask questions no matter what your experience why not pop along to the grapevine Forum? A bunch of lovely people willing to help anyone out with problems, and give tips and advice that have worked for the people there.

lawless

recent happenings

Just to catch you all up on where I am at the moment, I moved into my current flat on the 1st of march 2009 and after having got permission from the landlord that I could use the garden however I chose (being that it was a mass of tall grass, weeds and brambles) I started to panic at the amount of work needed to prepare the soil in time to start sowing seeds (the plan is to sow as much as possible directly into the soil as we don't have a great deal of window space). I started to chit potatoes on the 8th march, two main crop types (desiree and maris piper). I planted half of the desiree spuds out on the 29th. i sowed some seeds indoors on the 25th march (patriot F1 courgette, Marketmore Cucumbers, Runner Bean Enorma and Black beauty Aubergine) so far 4 seeds have germinated and appeared above soil, 1 Courgette and 1 Cucumber last week and this morning 1 Runner Bean and another Courgette. I have also dug up a lot of the garden and started to construct raised beds, although raised beds was not my original plan, but decided there wasn't enough time to get the soil prepared to start planting this month. So this is how the garden us looking so far, 3 of about 7 or 8 raised beds built and waiting to be filled which i will be doing by way of a topsoil/compost mix.

Welcome Along

welcome along to larry's slice of the good life

this blog shall be about my attempts at growing vegetables in my back garden, this is the first year i will be doing this seriously, after a failed foray last year some carrots and potatoes in plant pots. i will be growing initially in 6-8 2.4m x 1.4m raised beds on a patch of garden 9m x 4.5m. i will be writing as often as possible but may sometimes miss a few days i apologise

thats all for now

lawless