Steven, if you click on a poster's name above the post, you'll see their personal profile which usually includes the area where they live. Edd's from Co. Durham so can't be far from you.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi allJust joined the site. Been gardening since I were a lad but don't have one of my own, other than a tiny shady yard. I run a garden as a part-time job, though; help in another one and have a sort of allotment, so I tend to have dirty fingernails most of the time!
Happy to help with advice where I can - in between asking for it of course!
Experience used to be the guide, but in recent years that doesn't seem to have been very reliable. Fleece or other coverings are a good idea. I sometimes use old windows (usually salvaged from skips) or halves of plastic bottles etc. as mini-cloches but you need to make sure they're ventilated, especially when it's sunny if you want to avoid premature cooking, not to mention the dread fungal diseases!
I have just dug over 5 small raise beds that we have here at the hospital. Each 1.75m x 3.5m.
They have been fed with chicken pellets, dug over 3 times and currently no weeds.
I am wanting to plant vegetables for all year round picking, salads, carrots, cabbages etc and am looking for advice and what to do. This is run by and for the patients here to help with our recovery from from mental health issues and i do believe this will help greatly. All produce will be used in cooking classes or given to patients when they leave as part of a care package so they do not have to worry about getting out for food straight after getting home.
Any advice and simplest and best growing methods would be great.
What a great idea. Having 5 beds means that you can rotate your crops, which is brilliant. You could start by getting some seed potatoes in one bed, carrots, peas , it may be a little late to plant Broad Beans for this year, but you can plant Runner and French beans in a month or so.
I recommend first that you get a good veg book, I use 'The Vegetable and Herb Expert' by Dr. Hessayon. You often see it going cheap in Charity shops.
Then you can either buy your seeds on line or at a local shop, places like Wilkinsons do seeds pretty cheaply and so do Pound Shops. The seed packets will tell you when to plant and how deep.
You will need to water the seedlings, and read the seed packets first as some seeds need a lot of warmth (a sunny window sill and a seed tray) to germinate.
I am going to the shops tomorrow to pick up some seeds and a few bits to get us started. A couple of local garden centres have kindly offered to donate some soil, equipment and wood to get the beds raised higher so our wheelchair patients can join in.
I hope to be discharged in a couple of weeks, so need to crack on. Thanks again for kind words, advice and support.
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Is there anyone here from the northeast
Were u you from like edd mate
Steven, if you click on a poster's name above the post, you'll see their personal profile which usually includes the area where they live. Edd's from Co. Durham so can't be far from you.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi allJust joined the site. Been gardening since I were a lad but don't have one of my own, other than a tiny shady yard. I run a garden as a part-time job, though; help in another one and have a sort of allotment, so I tend to have dirty fingernails most of the time!
Happy to help with advice where I can - in between asking for it of course!
Emma/Misselong
Experience used to be the guide, but in recent years that doesn't seem to have been very reliable. Fleece or other coverings are a good idea. I sometimes use old windows (usually salvaged from skips) or halves of plastic bottles etc. as mini-cloches but you need to make sure they're ventilated, especially when it's sunny if you want to avoid premature cooking, not to mention the dread fungal diseases!
I have just dug over 5 small raise beds that we have here at the hospital. Each 1.75m x 3.5m.
They have been fed with chicken pellets, dug over 3 times and currently no weeds.
I am wanting to plant vegetables for all year round picking, salads, carrots, cabbages etc and am looking for advice and what to do. This is run by and for the patients here to help with our recovery from from mental health issues and i do believe this will help greatly. All produce will be used in cooking classes or given to patients when they leave as part of a care package so they do not have to worry about getting out for food straight after getting home.
Any advice and simplest and best growing methods would be great.
Thanks
Mike
What a great idea.
Having 5 beds means that you can rotate your crops, which is brilliant. You could start by getting some seed potatoes in one bed, carrots, peas , it may be a little late to plant Broad Beans for this year, but you can plant Runner and French beans in a month or so.
I recommend first that you get a good veg book, I use 'The Vegetable and Herb Expert' by Dr. Hessayon. You often see it going cheap in Charity shops.
Then you can either buy your seeds on line or at a local shop, places like Wilkinsons do seeds pretty cheaply and so do Pound Shops. The seed packets will tell you when to plant and how deep.
You will need to water the seedlings, and read the seed packets first as some seeds need a lot of warmth (a sunny window sill and a seed tray) to germinate.
Good luck with it, and we are all here to advise
What a brilliant project
Good luck!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you Scroggin, Dovefromabove and Artjak.
I am going to the shops tomorrow to pick up some seeds and a few bits to get us started. A couple of local garden centres have kindly offered to donate some soil, equipment and wood to get the beds raised higher so our wheelchair patients can join in.
I hope to be discharged in a couple of weeks, so need to crack on. Thanks again for kind words, advice and support.
Very much appreciated by us all here.