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if so what do u grow im just curious lol anne

We have just starting digging our veggie patch! WE've made a big compost box too. We have lettuce, leek, bean, cabbage, cauliflower, carrot and onion seeds starting off in trays. (I wanted celery but apparently its more trouble than its worth to grow). I can't wait for harvest time ...... if the rabbits don't get there first Bev

Tomatoes, in the summer. The little cherry ones. Deelish! Oh - and daughter has been known to cultivate raw penicillin in her bedroom! lol. Oops, sorry, that's medicine. Glenys x

I did at our last house. Our garden was horrid when we moved in but by the time we left I was growing, radish, carrots, spring onions, sprouts, celeriac, chives, rhubarb, thyme, mint, lavender, courgettes, blackcurrants, tayberries and blackberries along with loads of nasturtiums, rocket and sweet peas. Great fun but not organic as even with pest control I was collecting 70+ slugs and snails every evening. I was on the verge of kidnapping hedgehogs! Abigail

Yes, but only runner beans and asparagus. They're all we've got room for, as most of our growing space is taken up with fruit - trees: 4 apples, 2 pears, a damson, a greengage, a plum and a crab-apple bushes: quince, thornless blackberry, blackcurrant, redcurrant, gooseberry, raspberry CB >|<

We have a very large allotment patch 5 min away from our house and have been growing veg for 6 years now Potatoes (old and new) runner beans carrots onions garlic beetroot radishes and many more.

Yes at the moment mainly fruit and just a few veg, but hubby has just started preparing the rest of the ground and put up a large greenhouse so lots more on the way.

CB, your garden sounds scrummy, all you need now is a yoghurt maker! Abigail

Abigail, You're certainly right there, although the birds seem to do much better than we do with the blackberries and raspberries! I tend to pick the raspberries before they're ripe and leave them to redden on the kitchen windowsill, otherwise there's nothing left to pick! CB >|<

Hi CB, your garden sounds a lot like mine, i have two cooking apples four eating apples four plums one damson one greengage two cheries one almond two peaches one walnut one sweet chestnut and two hazel nut bushes. we inherited them all when we moved here three years ago, all except three of the eating apples which i planted my self. i also have gooseburys and blackcurrants, i have grown pots toms carrots and salad stuff but last year the pots and toms got blight so i had to dig them up and burn them. Tina

Husband has large allotment 5 mins away for past 25 years. Potatoes, carrots, radishes, parsnips, asparagus bed (20 yrs - now fed up with asparagus!), brussels, cabbage, onions, shallots, large strawberry bed, gooseberries, raspberries, pumpkin, courgette, marrow, tomatoes etc. etc broad beans, french climbing beans and salad stuff. Fig tree (fed up with figs) and plum and cherry trees in garden. Freeze a lot and make jam and chutneys! Ann

all i have at the moment is rubarb and a miniture apple tree

Just planted potatoes and onions on my allotment plot yesterday. More seedlings growing in the greenhouse for when it gets warmer. I love it!!!

I'm planning one! We have some space set aside (probably for next year, the way things are going). However I'm determined to get my herb garden done this year, as fresh herbs are SO expensive! We have 2 apple trees, a damson and a small greengae. The damson went mad last year, couldn't make jam fast enough!

we do me and my son we grow, runner beans, kidney beans, toms, brussels, red cabbage, spuds, courgettes, also grow strawberries, ruhbarb and hav apple and pear tree, also current bushes, not sure yet wt else we will griow but mite do leeks and carrots

Used to a lot when I was living with my parents and hubby had an allotment in a previous life. When we sell this house and move we will start again. Soil in this garden useless for growing much. Best things to go for first are what you can't buy fresh in the supermarket, like peas and beans. Pick them an d cook them straight away. Love fresh sweetcorn but they take up alot of space although they can be underplanted. Used to grow a lot of strawberries at my mums under a fruit cage and they were in season. f you are buying strawberries now the're imported, and how do you know they are organic? Ros

Always trying to be awkward. Waste of time growing your own. With your compost; slug killers and hard work etc. etc. they cost more than those from the shops - when yours mature they ,re always at the same time as they are the cheapest in the supermarkets. Will admit, there is a satisfaction in growing your own though. someone wil;l say 'ah, but the taste' bunkum in my opinion. Have a nice day. happy days

i think for me its simply the satisfaction of growing them :-) however i do think they taste lots better than most shop bought ones, especially runner beans as in the shops they r often very tough and stringy !!! as for toms, well they r easy to grow and the hardest work is watering them !!!!! the compost is easy to as we just dump all food and garden waste in the 2 bins and then i get 19 yr old son to dig it in each spring along with some manure !! :-)

We've just put some potatoes in. The kids usually grow something in tubs, and hope to grow courgettes and pumpkin. We also have two apple trees and a grape vine that gets loaded with white grapes that tase like battery acid sadly! Louise

maybe u cud use the grapes to make wine !!!!!