Small village in NW Essex about 5 miles from Suffolk in one direction and the same from Cambs in the other. Some houses to the front and either side but an arable field the other side of the deep ditch at the back. A fair size garden with too much grass and too many roses but the soil is much better than the heavy clay I had previously in mid Essex.
In the middle of a forest in Dordogne, France. Have about an acre of limestone garden, some of the forest and some poor quality (not much topsoil) paddocks. There is a limestone quarry about a mile down the road. Have added tons of compost and manure over the years and have made an English romantic style garden and a 20m x 10m veg garden. Veg garden getting too much, will only do half this year.
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Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We live in a town in West Yorkshire and have clay soil, we have a small garden about 10m x 10m I am fairly new to gardening and every day I learn something new. I started gardening when my youngest was born, to give me something to do on Maternity Leave and because I want to provide a nice garden for my children to play out in. Year 1 we built a patio, year 2 added an east facing bed, year 3 a west facing bed and year 4 a north facing bed in a south facing garden. Just wish I could fill my beds a bit quicker...
I live in a small village in Mid Wales. Gorgeous countryside. I have an average sized garden with for round here good drainage. It's West facing so I get plenty of sun. I can grow a good range of plants covering all soil conditions. I'm lucky in that I get to work in a wide range of gardens from very large to small and love evey minute of it.
I live in the outskirts of town in Bedfordshire but we're surrounded by farmland and the soil round here is pretty good though it gets a bit dry in the summer. So far the things I plant seem to grow which is good as I'm a relative newbie to this gardening lark
Bradford, 640' up the Pennines facing all the wrong way into the teeth of a constant gale. Front garden in shade for 6 months of the year, back garden in shade 8 hours of the day by other houses. Snails appeared 12 years ago, to which there are no indigenous predators.Acid clay suitable for pottery. Neighbours grow block paving.
Harpham, East Riding, 40' above sea level (let's all hope it keeps to its allotted 0') - warmer, much drier, but plenty of wind farms. 2' of alkaline clay above chalk granules. Indigenous Thrushes are welcome garden visitors. Otherwise, back garden 110' x 32', front 24' x 30'. Surrounded by fields and hedges and farms (probably with neonicotinoid rape crops, herbicidal wheat, and who knows on the potatoes). Neighbours grow odd veg, cut grass short, but do have some tasty log piles.
Personally I only randomly visit blog site, often get the wrong end of the conversation, am quite mad, and are is 110% OCD about growing any promising plant (from seed) which will attract bees, plus hovery and butter flies.
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Rural central Belgium. Very exposed to strong winds and cold winters. Fertile alkaline loam on clay sub soil.
Small village in NW Essex about 5 miles from Suffolk in one direction and the same from Cambs in the other. Some houses to the front and either side but an arable field the other side of the deep ditch at the back. A fair size garden with too much grass and too many roses but the soil is much better than the heavy clay I had previously in mid Essex.
In the middle of a forest in Dordogne, France. Have about an acre of limestone garden, some of the forest and some poor quality (not much topsoil) paddocks. There is a limestone quarry about a mile down the road. Have added tons of compost and manure over the years and have made an English romantic style garden and a 20m x 10m veg garden. Veg garden getting too much, will only do half this year.
Some of us have filled in our profiles so if you click on the name you can find out a bit more.
We live in a town in West Yorkshire and have clay soil, we have a small garden about 10m x 10m I am fairly new to gardening and every day I learn something new. I started gardening when my youngest was born, to give me something to do on Maternity Leave and because I want to provide a nice garden for my children to play out in. Year 1 we built a patio, year 2 added an east facing bed, year 3 a west facing bed and year 4 a north facing bed in a south facing garden. Just wish I could fill my beds a bit quicker...
I live in a small village in Mid Wales. Gorgeous countryside. I have an average sized garden with for round here good drainage. It's West facing so I get plenty of sun. I can grow a good range of plants covering all soil conditions. I'm lucky in that I get to work in a wide range of gardens from very large to small and love evey minute of it.
I live in the outskirts of town in Bedfordshire but we're surrounded by farmland and the soil round here is pretty good though it gets a bit dry in the summer. So far the things I plant seem to grow which is good as I'm a relative newbie to this gardening lark
On an island off the west coast of Scotland - in a wee village by the sea. Garden is in a wind tunnel - things grow to about 2 foot max & then stop!!
Bradford, 640' up the Pennines facing all the wrong way into the teeth of a constant gale. Front garden in shade for 6 months of the year, back garden in shade 8 hours of the day by other houses. Snails appeared 12 years ago, to which there are no indigenous predators.Acid clay suitable for pottery. Neighbours grow block paving.
Harpham, East Riding, 40' above sea level (let's all hope it keeps to its allotted 0') - warmer, much drier, but plenty of wind farms. 2' of alkaline clay above chalk granules. Indigenous Thrushes are welcome garden visitors. Otherwise, back garden 110' x 32', front 24' x 30'. Surrounded by fields and hedges and farms (probably with neonicotinoid rape crops, herbicidal wheat, and who knows on the potatoes). Neighbours grow odd veg, cut grass short, but do have some tasty log piles.
Personally I only randomly visit blog site, often get the wrong end of the conversation, am quite mad, and are is 110% OCD about growing any promising plant (from seed) which will attract bees, plus hovery and butter flies.