03-05-2006, 12:59 PM
Hi All,
Just curious, what are you all growing in your gardens this year?
Myself I am doing the usual tomatoes and chillies, as well as a selection of salad greens (for the first time). I have also decided to pull up the straggly bushes in the backyard and replace them with a line of soft fruit bushes - one side of the wall will be planted with two each of red, white and black currants, and the opposide wall will be planted with gooseberry bushes. In addition I will be training three raspberry canes up the side of the shed. With the two apple trees already in place it will make for a lovely and mostly edible back garden.
The front garden is being spruced up by digging a trench along the boundary wall and planting mostly summer flowering bulbs - at the moment I have bought gladioli and am shopping around for other flowers as well. In addition I will be planting some herbs - sweet cicely, rosemary, lavender and sage are all on the cards. I wanted to plant two cherry trees but am now not sure if that would work in the space we have.
Under the established hedgerow (foliage only starts some 2ft off the ground) I will plant bulbs of lily of the valley, snowdrop, crocus and freesia later in the year.
Just curious, what are you all growing in your gardens this year?
Myself I am doing the usual tomatoes and chillies, as well as a selection of salad greens (for the first time). I have also decided to pull up the straggly bushes in the backyard and replace them with a line of soft fruit bushes - one side of the wall will be planted with two each of red, white and black currants, and the opposide wall will be planted with gooseberry bushes. In addition I will be training three raspberry canes up the side of the shed. With the two apple trees already in place it will make for a lovely and mostly edible back garden.
The front garden is being spruced up by digging a trench along the boundary wall and planting mostly summer flowering bulbs - at the moment I have bought gladioli and am shopping around for other flowers as well. In addition I will be planting some herbs - sweet cicely, rosemary, lavender and sage are all on the cards. I wanted to plant two cherry trees but am now not sure if that would work in the space we have.
Under the established hedgerow (foliage only starts some 2ft off the ground) I will plant bulbs of lily of the valley, snowdrop, crocus and freesia later in the year.