[Dans]

Oh its beautiful!

I won't posting any photos of my little patch *hides in shame* I still have so much to learn!

Dans - I'm doing well at growing Dock though.

[deepinthewoods]

bert, thats my idea of heaven, 100%.
i would have a dozen night lines in that loch.....

[galtezza]

Not a patch on Berts place, but this is our veggie patch - or should I say, our potager as we are in France.
We made all the raised beds from old oak floorboards taken out of the house we are renovating (too far gone to use in the house), and finished all the beds, fencing, and gravelling just before the snows set in for winter.





This is a photo taken yesterday, with the beds full and the all veggies growing really well, including the pumpkin at the front making a bid for freedom!





I'm very proud as this is the first veggie garden I have had and the first year I have grown anything from seed.

[Dans]

ok that is also amazing. I really need to improve my patch!

Dans

[Bert]

Wow galtezza your veg patch is stunning  .  Wish my pumpkins looked like that.

[suziequeue]

Cripes - that's alot of slug grit 

[northfifeduckling]

Would this be a good online show?

what about "the highest weed" competition? I'd win that one 

[little blue]

strong competition here though NFD ...
there's a nettle in my greenhouse that reaches the roof! I don't wear my gloves in there, so forget to shift it...

[Dizzycow]

Totally crap. My veg patch, that is. The photos are stunning. Mine is full of vigorous Jerusalem Artichokes and feeble peas. Rubbish. The chickens are to blame. 

[northfifeduckling]

oh, I so know how you feel, Dizzy. Chickens are the downfall of veg plots! I'm constantly fighting with mine  - I had a vision of making a film "the approach of the nightmare chickens"  ! Sometimes one actually sits on my garden fork WHILST I am digging - hardly get anything done ! Awaiting delivery of plastic fence but don't have much hope this will help for good...
Fartichockes make tasty soup or are nice with a roast - best way to control them is to eat them ! And something  for Rusty - they're good for diabetics 

[Dizzycow]

Love fartichoke soup too, NFD. Good job too, because the invasion is pretty impressive....! xxx

[northfifeduckling]

What I like about Artiichockes is that they are available through the whole winter, no need of storage , just dig them up when needed (trouble is my memory, I forget about them  )

[embo]

Hello Galtezza - thought I recognised your plot! I've been following the build on pistonheads and your blog. Yum yum, Emma

[Odin]

Passoindale or the Somme. Complete wash out, only the spuds survived, nothing else got a chance to get established and now the heavy rain has 'done it in'.

[Fleecewife]

My hens can barely get to my plot for the weeds.  I'm a definite contender for both 'the tallest weed' and 'the most weed species'  .  My OH is pulling thistles from the pastures, I'm supposed to be doing the veg plot ones but am falling well behind.
There is a sickly row of broad beans, some summer brassicas, garlic and shallots, plus spuds, then the indoor stuff in the tunnel.  It's enough to keep us going and there's always next year (DV).   June seems to be the month when the weeds get the upper hand, and our soil is too wet to do anything about them. Trala - back to the spinning then