Cleared lawn for a veg plot - advice on what to grow please

[redsnapper]

Ok so the veg seeds are sown and this weekend the red cabbage plants went into the ground and so did the smaller spinach seedlings.

I potted on the broccoli seedlings into small pots and already the freakin pigeons have had 2 of them the twats - I'm considering buying a blunderbus and blasting the fat sods out the sky.

Apparently Collared Doves and Wood Pigeons are on the increase. Now don't get me wrong, I am a bird lover but not when the twats go for my baby broccoli plants when there's all sorts of other food sources for them everywhere!

No more room for sweetcorn I think the rest of the lawn may have to come up

 

[The39thStep]

If you plant spuds look out for wireworm which are more likely to infest soils where lawns or grass has been

 

[gentlegreen]

Apparently the Iroquoi "Three Sisters" is corn, with squash below and beans climbing up ... presumably with a fish buried under each corn plant

http://www.reneesgarden.com/articles/3sisters.html

 

[toggle]

Apparently the Iroquoi "Three Sisters" is corn, with squash below and beans climbing up ... presumably with a fish buried under each corn plant

http://www.reneesgarden.com/articles/3sisters.html

I'm growing squash and beans, or squash and sweetcorn in together, but i think i need to look more into well rotted manure before i do this properly

 

[redsnapper]

If you plant spuds look out for wireworm which are more likely to infest soils where lawns or grass has been

NO SPUDS!!!!!!!


only jokin, a few of us are rather 'anti-spuds' round here thats all

 

[sheothebudworths]

FFS! SOME PEOPLE JUST WILL NOT BE TOLD, EH RS!!!


Maybe I can help......


NO!
FUCKIN'!!
SPUDS!!!

 

[sheothebudworths]

No more room for sweetcorn I think the rest of the lawn may have to come up

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!


You gotta have some corn!

Even just a few plants!!

Fuck that lawn right off!!!

 

[MightyAphrodite]

i love taters. x


oh and lol@ johH...you are trouble! lol


eta...

Nasturtiums too possibly and I'll be able to eat their flowers, yum!

that is horrific!!!

 

[mutley]

What might be worth planting if your gardens a bit short of sun?

Mine gets about 3 hours in most places, due to house and a couple of large trees.

I wanna plant something edible, but it ain't exactly perfect. Is there anything that will cope with these less than favourable conditions, and does not involve use of a chainsaw?

I read somewhere that leafy stuff like spinach might cope.

 

[davgraham]

What might be worth planting if your gardens a bit short of sun?

Mine gets about 3 hours in most places, due to house and a couple of large trees.

I wanna plant something edible, but it ain't exactly perfect. Is there anything that will cope with these less than favourable conditions, and does not involve use of a chainsaw?

I read somewhere that leafy stuff like spinach might cope.

Gooseberries can cope with shade - just prune them like cordons

gra

 

[redsnapper]

that is horrific!!!

Have you ever eaten nasturtium flowers? Well stfu then


if you have still stfu cos they is ace and peppery an stuff lol

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Have you ever eaten nasturtium flowers? Well stfu then


if you have still stfu cos they is ace and peppery an stuff lol

ha! no....

what do you think i am some sort of fuckin hippy?!!! lol

 

[davesgcr]

Leeks

Zero work involved , robust , and somethng to pick in the depths of winter