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Maybe we could have a few Garden challengers , the basket I did was in a challenge on a facebook group I’m in. Ive not been in it long, but from looking around, they tried to grow carrots in pipes lol, strange but seem to turn out ok. Might give it ago next year. 
Hardest part for me in growing is really knowing when to start with veg and plants... I don’t seem to have patience, I like my flowers to flower right away lol, that’s prob why I buy for shops and grow from seed lol

Maybe we could have a few Garden challengers , the basket I did was in a challenge on a facebook group I’m in. Ive not been in it long, but from looking around, they tried to grow carrots in pipes lol, strange but seem to turn out ok. Might give it ago next year. 
Hardest part for me in growing is really knowing when to start with veg and plants... I don’t seem to have patience, I like my flowers to flower right away lol, that’s prob why I buy for shops and grow from seed lol

Wow you got lots of veg there, I’m to old for an allotment, I have enuff with garden, can I ask? What’s the purple spike looking plant called, it’s very nice. 
Like ive said, I just plant and pray, mostly they do seem to grow, but I couldn’t say what each flower is called lol. I have taken some seed pods from some plants for next year, not really done much from seed, just normally buy from shops or garden centre. 

It’s nice to be here again, I just forgot all about it, fog brain and old age lol..... I will do my best to come by more often .... it all depends on how interesting you lot are lmfao. 
I did put the carrots in compost maybe it was to rich, but I will give them another go next year.. 

I’ve been a member for some time now but never really came to site, had to start a new account as couldn’t remember other one lol, I’m not the best gardener , I plant and pray. I did try carrots but sadly they never grow, but I did try to do them in a basket I found in house lol.... I really hope you can find some photos I’d love to see how your garden and allotment turned out, 

Found this one... Wow forgot how nice it looked. 

I do a little gardening myself but nothing like you, I was wondering how everything turned out as no photos were posted... I did this, this year... in a laundry basket, turned out pretty good, I’ll see if I can find a better photo.. 

Maybe we could have a few Garden challengers , the basket I did was in a challenge on a facebook group I’m in. Ive not been in it long, but from looking around, they tried to grow carrots in pipes lol, strange but seem to turn out ok. Might give it ago next year. 
Hardest part for me in growing is really knowing when to start with veg and plants... I don’t seem to have patience, I like my flowers to flower right away lol, that’s prob why I buy for shops and grow from seed lol

Never too old! There is a guy up our allotment who is 96! There is another who is partially blind too!
 
The spikey flower head is actually an allium, it was on it's way out when that photo was taken but if you google alliums pretty much everything that will come up will look more akin to what it is in bloom 🙂 They are quite pretty and certainly grab some attention.
 
 
Veg tends to be either given to us or we keep things back from last year, i.e. all our potato's that we grow next year will be whatever we have left over this year just put in the ground 🙂
 
As for flowers, the dahlia's are my go to and you tend to pick them up as tubers or small plants. Again if they grow well and I'm particularly fond when the tuber's get over a certain size you break them up when you store them away for next year and essentially you get multiple plants of the same sort.
 
If I was to buy seeds it often varies, I have had success with a couple of stores on ebay, suttons is quite good as well or dt browns 🙂 But otherwise most of my stuff tends to come from a little garden centre I found a few years back that I'm quite fond of.
 
 
Aggh don't test me 😄 Nothing of mine ever looks pretty (unless I just take a cutting of a single flower head 😄 ) Gardening is a patience thing most definately, it's why people tend to just buy flowers each year and throw them in their flower beds but at home we have tried to build up a garden using plants and flowers that come back again each year. We have a couple of camellia's which are lovely (flowering season is a bit short though). The other things is the type of soil you mentioned earlier, like certain flowers don't like acidic or alkiline soils, at home we have clay soil which is horrible to work with as it means your plants sit in water when you get crap weather and it dries out in the summer so you need to consider that (or as we are, you spend time each year working in compost and the such to improve it).
 
Gardenings just a vast subject 😄 I have considered doing a course a couple of times, it would be one of those things that if I could pick any career and money wasn't an issue I would likely be a gardner I think.

I need to invest more time into putting up some garden threads. This is great, thanks for sharing @Luseth .
 
My mum has a love for gardening and I do too enjoy seeing lovely gardens, just never knew where to start. I'm probably more into growing nice flowers than vegetables, etc, but you are tempting me to restructure the garden so we have a small patch for growing some things. I think it would help the kids too learn new things.
 
Where do you get your flower seeds from?

Wow you got lots of veg there, I’m to old for an allotment, I have enuff with garden, can I ask? What’s the purple spike looking plant called, it’s very nice. 
Like ive said, I just plant and pray, mostly they do seem to grow, but I couldn’t say what each flower is called lol. I have taken some seed pods from some plants for next year, not really done much from seed, just normally buy from shops or garden centre. 

Wow you got lots of veg there, I’m to old for an allotment, I have enuff with garden, can I ask? What’s the purple spike looking plant called, it’s very nice. 
Like ive said, I just plant and pray, mostly they do seem to grow, but I couldn’t say what each flower is called lol. I have taken some seed pods from some plants for next year, not really done much from seed, just normally buy from shops or garden centre. 

Wow you got lots of veg there, I’m to old for an allotment, I have enuff with garden, can I ask? What’s the purple spike looking plant called, it’s very nice. 
Like ive said, I just plant and pray, mostly they do seem to grow, but I couldn’t say what each flower is called lol. I have taken some seed pods from some plants for next year, not really done much from seed, just normally buy from shops or garden centre. 

This next lot, some photos of the allotment, though things had not really gotten going yet but show's a couple of the areas -
 

And final photos are some of the produce we got from our allotment this year -

Awesome 😍
 
I spent a bit of time on my mate's allotment in Tottenham this summer, just by the river, its an oasis of green and tranquility.
I mostly just drink beer there though😁

So first post with photos are from my garden, so just a quick photo of the garden and then some of the flowers I have grown this year -
 

Carrots. Don’t grow them in ground that’s been freshly manured otherwise they’ll fork. Roots need to search for food 👍

It’s nice to be here again, I just forgot all about it, fog brain and old age lol..... I will do my best to come by more often .... it all depends on how interesting you lot are lmfao. 
I did put the carrots in compost maybe it was to rich, but I will give them another go next year.. 

I’ve been a member for some time now but never really came to site, had to start a new account as couldn’t remember other one lol, I’m not the best gardener , I plant and pray. I did try carrots but sadly they never grow, but I did try to do them in a basket I found in house lol.... I really hope you can find some photos I’d love to see how your garden and allotment turned out, 

It’s nice to be here again, I just forgot all about it, fog brain and old age lol..... I will do my best to come by more often .... it all depends on how interesting you lot are lmfao. 
I did put the carrots in compost maybe it was to rich, but I will give them another go next year.. 

It’s nice to be here again, I just forgot all about it, fog brain and old age lol..... I will do my best to come by more often .... it all depends on how interesting you lot are lmfao. 
I did put the carrots in compost maybe it was to rich, but I will give them another go next year.. 

I’ve been a member for some time now but never really came to site, had to start a new account as couldn’t remember other one lol, I’m not the best gardener , I plant and pray. I did try carrots but sadly they never grow, but I did try to do them in a basket I found in house lol.... I really hope you can find some photos I’d love to see how your garden and allotment turned out, 

Ah @mazzer that looks ace 🙂 my arrangement skills are incredibly lacking but i do a good job of keeping things alive.
 
I will have a dig around and see if i have any photos but I dont think I took any (assumed no one here was interested when I never got a reply).

I’ve been a member for some time now but never really came to site, had to start a new account as couldn’t remember other one lol, I’m not the best gardener , I plant and pray. I did try carrots but sadly they never grow, but I did try to do them in a basket I found in house lol.... I really hope you can find some photos I’d love to see how your garden and allotment turned out,