my little garden at home xtension of the lottie

[gunners71uk]

i have a little garden just big enough for us to sit in but i have started to utilise the space i have a old coldframe with netting over in there i have20 or strawberry plants,and in the gaps i have all year round lettuces growing .in the garden i have a bucket of mint growing,and will be putting a few sunflowers in containers with a cane driven into the ground through the hole then put in compost, i also will be putting 8 or so tom plants in containers same principle,i have 20 or so marrow plants growing in me little plastic green house they are a godsend if you have not much space or on a budget,my sunflower plants are about 10 ins high ,on my wall i have giant flat leaf parsley, chives, sage i have basil growing at the lottie nr me carrots and corriander too.i will only use 12 or so courgette marrow plants at the lottie,so hope fully i wont starve alot of my toms will be used for chutney gardeners delight just bung them in principle.so look at your garden and see what you can utilise even if its a postage stamp i need to get back to the lottie tomorrow as those flaming weeds grow fast.all the best

[Millymollymandy]

i will only use 12 or so courgette marrow plants at the lottie,so hope fully i wont starve

Er no, you won't starve!!!!!!!!!!

Right, place your bets here - how long before Gunners starts moaning about how sick he is of courgettes/marrows!!

Great use of space in your small garden, by the way!

[gunners71uk]

milly plan a is to eat them and give a few away then plan b which is chutney,etc lol

[Tinks]

I have a similar garden, I call it the ledge, we live in a maisonette above a shop and have a balcony/walkthrough, fairly big for a balcony maybe 5metres x 3.5 metres. I have all my herbs in pots here, tomatoes and courgettes in grow bags, salad leaves and radishes in window boxes, strawberries in tubs, flowers - sunflowers, poppies, marigolds, nasturtiums in pots and an apple tree in a large pot! Also have found some carrots that i can grow in pots - parmex - they are round and look a bit like radishes, my daughter loves carrots but they just refuse to grow at the allotment, maybe because we have heavy clay soil.
Anyway, just wanted to say it is amazing how much you can grow in a relatively small space, especially one with no soil! And lovely to see at home too, cant always just pop down the allotment for a 'growing' buzz!
All the best, tinks

[shiney]

You'll be looking for courgette recipes then Gunners?!

I have a few plants that have appeared in my little raised bed that I put compost in. So I have rescued them and will be growing them in growbags for the time being. Otherwise, they get unruly and take over the garden.

[gunners71uk]

shiny wheres your pic gone yes yes yes moooooore courgettec recipes said in the style of father jack of father ted fame do you remember drink drink drink

[shiney]

Hi Gunners

I tried to update my pic but it just said the size of the image was too big. It wasn't and I gave up! I'll try again.

I'll dig out a courgette ressseeep or two for you.

[ina]

Can you make wine out of courgettes?

[gunners71uk]

yes you whine when you have had too many courgettes lol

[ina]

[shiney]

One thing I can never understand is why it's sooooo easy to grow courgettes but why do they cost so much in the shops?

Anyway, I am on a mission to find some tasty recipes for you.

[ina]

Last year mine didn't do well at all... And they do need a lot of space. Don't know, but I can imagine that they need quite a bit of manual labour input, too, which would make them more expensive.

[Millymollymandy]

Quite possibly - just think how many you manage to scratch with a finger nail/damage when you are cutting them off the plant - and how supermarkets wouldn't like that!

[gunners71uk]

use a chain saw lol

[Tinks]

this will be the first time that i've grown courgettes and i read somewhere that you're not supposed to water over the top of them but instead copiously around the sides, does anyone know why that is?
Tinks