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Growing Your Own

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Thanks! :)

We have more fruit trees around the other side and the garden is a lot more full now as everything is growing. We've already had good crops of lettuce, peas, potatos', strawberry's and gooseberries. Just waiting on everything else now :)
 
My friend (the pigs uncle James) is growing lots of herbs for them. He brings up a box or 2 every week full of grass, carrot tops, coriander, parsley andmint.

I have managed to grow timothy grass, mint and some lettuce. Having some problems with the council spraying weedkiller over part of my garden so I can't grow or feed the pigs anything from the garden just now ¬_¬
 
Most of what i grow is in planters, sacks and tubs plus hanging baskets. I do have two large raised bed seen in the picture and they were literally made from slats of wood, bracks and screws then filled with compost. The only fruit tree i have planted in my garden is my apple tree, the rest are potted. It's all about making use of the space you have :)
 
I have started growing my own lettuces :) within 4 days they had sprouted and now they have seconds leaves not even a week in :)
 
It takes work to grow on such a scale when you work every hours god sends, but it's very rewarding. my pumpkins are huge! Can't wait for halloween! :)
 
Very nice, it looks well organised and tiday. Is that mixed leaf lettuce? If so you'll be surpised how much it takes over!
 
They do grow really really fast but when you pick the leaves they grow more for the rest of the season :)
 
They will grow bigger and bigger. When they get to a decent size I just get the scissors and chop what eaves I need, they will keep growing until end of season :)
 
My veggies are doing well so far, here's a handful of the beans picked from my rescue plant:
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And heres my yellow courgettes growing :)
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And my not so successful radishes harvested a couple of months back (the piggies still loved them though!)
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This thread makes me jealous, i used to grow my own but didn't have a very productive year last year, went to start again this year only to find all my pots and gardening supplies i'd put in the shed to use this year had been thrown out by my sisters ever so helpful boyfriend :hb: Apparently he hadn't seen me use some of it in "like nearly a year" :mal: Nevermind, i'll have to try and get my bits and bobs ready for next year!
 
I am going to buy that lettuce they sell in Sainsbury's - Grow and cut or something ? comes in a tray. Total cheat ;) but will get a few trays and see if I can replant and keep growing? maybe in the conservatory?

I have grown tomatoes this year - very good, crazy looking plants, and peppers not so good. My corn died :(

I am highly jealous of the veg growing!

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This thread is great, I can't believe I've only just come across it! @Flutterby your garden is amazing! @Lady Kelly your courgettes look great!

We do grow quite a lot in the garden but not specifically for the piggies. I'm hoping to grow some more stuff soon, does anyone have any recommendations for piggy friendly autumn/winter plants? We've got a greenhouse and planters/space outside too so there shouldn't be a problem as to where to grow anything.

We've got the following:
Alpine strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries (finished now), green beans, rhubarb, potatoes (various varieties), apples, pears, cucumbers (2 varieties), tomatoes (various varieties: sungold etc.), blueberries, mixed salad, aubergine, mint, basil and cress.

There are also lots of blackberry bushes, plum and apple trees in the parks nearby which are lovely for making jams and jellies.

I'm hoping to grow a lot more next year though!
 
Currently I am growing a parsley plant :) It is a bit bold ate the momment as my piggies ate it :) One of them is actually a bit wierd and flopping all over so it might be dieing :( I am looking forward to growing some more things though as I LOVE gardening :)
 
My aunt received a box of over 1000 packed of seeds :D will have to find out where she got it :) she has an allotment that she grows with my little cousins
 
@Puzzlepigs thankyou :)

I've already started putting my garden to sleep for winter. It need's a good tidy, but we are still picking tomato's and the corn on the cob is ready. We also have an early pumpkin ready so I'll have to have an early halloween lol :)

I'll be looking at winter lettuce to grow for the piggies and I am going to grow a tray of grass :)
 
Love your garden @Flutterby ! Lucky pigs! What do you do about slugs? I can't stand the things. I am growing tomatoes, herbs and peppers in containers and the trails all over the leaves are putting me off picking anything!
 
Okay I am already failing at keeping parsley! I'm going to save up snd buy plastic pot and grow some lettuce! :D Lets hope I don't fail at that :P
 
I put closh material around the edges of my beds and straw around the base of plants it tends to keep the slugs away. Not caterpillars though I am surrounded by them but I like them so I just pick them off. I won't use pesticides so I just do my best without :)
 
Flutterby said:
I put closh material around the edges of my beds and straw around the base of plants it tends to keep the slugs away. Not caterpillars though I am surrounded by them but I like them so I just pick them off. I won't use pesticides so I just do my best without :)
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Thanks, I'll try that. Yes we've had loads of caterpillars this year too, especially on the fuschias. One was enormous, never seen anything like it! I swear it had a proper face *shudder*!
 
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