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tina a couple of years ago i tried that but when i dug em there wasnt any potatoes theres lol maybe i am just being thick lol

Hi Luvvy, i think you can start digging them up when they have flowerd thats what i did anyway, fresh from the ground, scrummy. Tina

nudge

oh wel was worth a try :-)

We did use the grapes to make wine one year but it tasted no better as wine still battery acid! Louise

ive got a silly question i have noticed a few of u have grown some spuds and i have seen them in garden centers so if i get some and get em planted when would we b able to pick them out of the ground

i have just found a good place in the garden for this years project , so hubbie is digging it while i relax. we have just brought a peach tree to go in down there, our heb garden is rampent and im due to get a whole host of veggie seeedlings from my mum this week. its a good excuse for the kids to get in the garden and take part in slave labour lol corrina

we cud even test it for u ................ :-)

plenty of wine lol

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

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

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 !! :-)

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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