Regular readers will know I plant Japanese or winter 🌰 🌰 sets every September and they are ready to harvest in June.
I planted some of them in baths complete with drainage holes. The repurposed baths were filled with fym, topsoil and home-made compost.
I think a combination of the wonderful sunny weather in May and now the frequent showers and a good sprinkle of pelleted chicken manure. Have all helped to give us such a bountiful harvest.
You will see in the above picture that the weeds are getting plentiful. I must get my gardener back. He's very inexpensive and a couple of cans of lager or Newky Brown always suffice for wages.
So take heart would be allotment gardeners on allotment waiting lists.
Start collecting old plastic baths and heating oil tanks and grow veg in your back garden or garden. You could even grow them on concrete.
The repurposed raised beds/baths may not be aesthetically pleasing on the eye. But you will be growing your very homegrown organic vegetables.
You know your onions 😉
ReplyDeleteWe like the Alliums family JayCee. We've still got half a freezer full of chopped onions in freezer bags to get through. It's a great year for growing flowers and vegetables.
ReplyDeleteIt is a good growing year, makes a lovely change to have good harvest.
ReplyDeleteIt a great growing year Marlene. The weeds have got in front of me at the moment. I will clear the beds when I harvested the crops and revamp them with well rotted fym and plant them up for winter and spring vegetables like Aurtumn King carrots, spring cabbage, leeks and Kale.
ReplyDeleteI used to grow strawberries in a repurposed bath.
ReplyDeleteBut that got to low for me with my back issues.
So now I’ve got raised wicking beds. Much better for my back. And in our hot environment so much more water efficient
The bathtubs have been cleaned and now are used as water troughs for the animals.
I have read about wicking beds Angela. I experimented with hugelkultur in some of my raised beds and placed branches in the bottom and covered them with compost, topsoil and fym. Raised beds are good for drainage in wet winters especially like Ireland and parts of the UK.
ReplyDeleteAre the Japanese onions milder than regular brown onions? Does Jean wear a silk kimono around the house and how often do you eat sushi?
ReplyDeletePseudo Silk Kimona by Marillion is a very good Prog song YP. There not strong like Spanish onions are.
ReplyDeleteDamned fine onions Dave. French onion soup?
ReplyDeleteThey're crackers TM. Good idea. I think it's French onion 🌰 soup.
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