Supermarket fruit that are nice one packet then the next packet of the same variety is too sour to enjoy. What is that about Tesco gala apple growers??
It's why my partner wants a fruit and veg plot in our rear, sloping garden. I'm being very uncooperative about it. I really like the wildlife upper half and the formal/informal ornamental lower half. Any very plot has slope and aesthetics against it. The only part I'd give up to it, because it's tucked away from the house, I still think isn't right. It's nice as it is but it's not really big enough for much cropping. So I'm being a bit obstinate about it and only seeing the problems and difficulties. We're close to an argument.
What can you do? Conflicting demands on space in the garden. I said put it in the front. That's the only flat area. It's a rectangle if lawn surrounded by borders on three sides with a path and house on the other. She says people will play silly buggers with veg grown there. Either steal it, damage it or wee all over it. In say just wash everything before eating it. What's the problem?
Plant a couple of compatible apples in teh wild area or even the front garden if that suits better. Make sure they're on a rootstock suited to the space available or maybe even find a family tree with 2, 3 or 4 varieties of apple grafted onto one stem..
You can slot veg here and there in your borders. Buy or borrow the Geoff Hamilton DVD called the ornamental Kitchen Garden to see how.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Some vegetables go really well in a flower garden. I forgot about a few beetroot last year and they look really decorative now The red stems and dark leaves will look great when the flowers get around to flowering. I'm not sure if they're still edible though. I've been shoving used supermarket parsley in all over the place. That looks good too. Beans have lovely flowers if you have the patience to water them and courgettes are pretty if you don't get fed up eating them. It'll be a while before I can face another courgette! Then there's artichokes. A shame to eat them as you lose the flowers.
The one in the lower garden had apples on it when we viewed the property in autumn. Decent but not bumper crop. Can't remember the upper garden fruit trees but the pear still had its tag on and my dad told me the other two fruit trees up there were fruit trees but that was in march before leaves were out and be knew they were fruit but not what type of fruit. The larger apple at the bottom seemed to do ok. Two out of three fruit trees in the upper garden also look n like they're doing well.
I suspect the ground is ok but I do not know the pH. Must test it around the garden. What pH is not good for Apple and other fruit trees? We're in a limestone area with limestone not too far from the surface in places around us like the path out the back of the upper garden. I have no idea how deep the soil layer is but houses down the road then turned up the hill have rock outcrops in their gardens. We're lower down at the boundary of the hill and fiat coastal valley. Right on that boundary. Front is start of flat and house is where the hill starts.
I don’t know exactly what PH they’re happy with, but mine is far too acid for them, raspberries and rhubarb are very good here, not apples and pears. i have to lime the ground for veg. you should be ok on limestone I would think.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Cleaning and re-waterproofing my walking boots at 1am while waiting for a load of washing to finish so I can get the next lot in before bed. Mostly damp clothes from our walk today. My oldest boy has been pleading to go back to the nature reserve all week but it's so rammed with covidiots on the weekend that we decided a wet Thursday afternoon would be more fun. It widdled down enough to test the limits of our waterproofs but we were the only people there. Good times were had by all so I suspect we will have another week of pleading to look forward to now.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Hubby said some very rude naughty words I didn't understand any of them,, filing up with water type noises coming from bathroom,well ceiling,he says the loft stopcock is seized, just going round and round not actually turning off
Spent what feels like 1/2 the morning phoning house insurance people. The renewal quote was over 35 quid more than their own advert on a price comparison site. They graciously offered a "discount " to match it. Why do we still have to suffer this nonsense every year 😡
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It's why my partner wants a fruit and veg plot in our rear, sloping garden. I'm being very uncooperative about it. I really like the wildlife upper half and the formal/informal ornamental lower half. Any very plot has slope and aesthetics against it. The only part I'd give up to it, because it's tucked away from the house, I still think isn't right. It's nice as it is but it's not really big enough for much cropping. So I'm being a bit obstinate about it and only seeing the problems and difficulties. We're close to an argument.
What can you do? Conflicting demands on space in the garden. I said put it in the front. That's the only flat area. It's a rectangle if lawn surrounded by borders on three sides with a path and house on the other. She says people will play silly buggers with veg grown there. Either steal it, damage it or wee all over it. In say just wash everything before eating it. What's the problem?
You can slot veg here and there in your borders. Buy or borrow the Geoff Hamilton DVD called the ornamental Kitchen Garden to see how.
I've been shoving used supermarket parsley in all over the place. That looks good too. Beans have lovely flowers if you have the patience to water them and courgettes are pretty if you don't get fed up eating them. It'll be a while before I can face another courgette! Then there's artichokes. A shame to eat them as you lose the flowers.
I suspect the ground is ok but I do not know the pH. Must test it around the garden. What pH is not good for Apple and other fruit trees? We're in a limestone area with limestone not too far from the surface in places around us like the path out the back of the upper garden. I have no idea how deep the soil layer is but houses down the road then turned up the hill have rock outcrops in their gardens. We're lower down at the boundary of the hill and fiat coastal valley. Right on that boundary. Front is start of flat and house is where the hill starts.
i have to lime the ground for veg.
you should be ok on limestone I would think.