hayhatch Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 Okay as well as falling for chickens, I've now also (thanks to my mum!) fallen in love with gardening. If the rain holds off today I'm gonna get stuck in once more. Anyone else fallen in love with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedusA Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 Absolutely. As soon as I had my own first garden, I was hooked. I now have 2 allotments as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayhatch Posted May 5, 2008 Author Share Posted May 5, 2008 Wow two allotments? Got loads of ideas for our garden its colourful at the front and at the bak, but its nearly all green in the middle so wanna plantsome flowers next to the apple tree, just to make it look a bit more colourful. And we have a load of empty plant pots that just "long" for some good compost and flowers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 I love it - just don't get enough time out there! Every time I do one job, I look round and see three more that need doing. Glad you're enjoying it Hayley, I think it's a real stress-buster and always brings me back down to earth if I've had a bad day or I'm feeling wound up about something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 Okay as well as falling for chickens, I've now also (thanks to my mum!) fallen in love with gardening. If the rain holds off today I'm gonna get stuck in once more. Anyone else fallen in love with it? for us, the one followed the other and our garden is now totally transformed In fact we had home grown rhubarb crumble tonight and a glass of home grown rhubarb schnapps. We are growing lots of other things besides rhubarb though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I enjoy pottering too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaylis1980 Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 i love it too but i have run out of funds so to speak lol where i need to buy top soil for the raised beds we made, some compost since i have used up about 300 litres and mine isnt ready yet!! and waiting for my wheelbarrow- then its rock n roll! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I was frustrated when we built our extention as the footings were basically top soil, so I had lots and lots that I was trying to give away.. did anyone want it for their gardens?? yes if I delivered it free. I had to pay for it to be taken away in the end. Anyway onto gardening.. ahem... yes I love pottering, but I am no good at it, I have no idea what plants are good or bad with each other I am wanting to grow vegetables in pots when I get the chance as I thought this is comething thats good for the children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillfamily Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I love gardening and spent most of the weekend pottering about - hence me not being on here much - planting out veg, enjoying a cuppa (discovered Babs chook really likes a cup of tea ) watching the robin flit back and forth collecting mealworms for it's babies :D It was idyllic :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I'm hooked too, my poly tunnel provided us with mini caulis mangetout baby spinach and strawberries yesterday, and my girls provided the eggs for cooked breakfast my sister was very impressed, my spuds in bags are now outside with herbs and salad onions in pots doing well, horse radish is comming up, beans & peas in rasied beds doing well, Oh the pigeons ate all my callabrise - will have to get some hoops & netting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaylis1980 Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I was frustrated when we built our extention as the footings were basically top soil, so I had lots and lots that I was trying to give away.. did anyone want it for their gardens?? yes if I delivered it free. I had to pay for it to be taken away in the end. TYPICAL!! i have asked on freecycle about 50 times (authors rights of exageration reserved) and found one on ebay who was charging!!! so i told him to phone me when it was free lol - especially since he was from a clay area. bloody cheek. a ton of top soil is gonna cost me 80.00 delivered, but it will be clay free and screened. every cloud.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I've always loved gardening - my grandparents were keen gardeners and most of my childhood memories are of being in a greenhouse and mucking about with pots and seeds and soil. But until I got the chickens I never grew veg - don't know why, but I think it was always about looks rather than productivity! These chickens have a lot to answer for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutrix Farmers Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I've rediscovered gardening this year and it's all because of the chickens! Had a few years where very little got done for a variety of reasons but I can't stay out of it now. We plan to take an old broken greenhouse down and have a proper veg plot for the first time! As Snowy Howells says "these chickens have a lot to answer for!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I am the daughter of a professional gardener and I worked with him in the holidays and at weekends when I was growing up. Largely I did it for the money but as I have got older I have discovered the real joy of it, my daughter can't see it at the moment but i bet she will when she is older too. we have had to change our gardening habits since we have had the chickens, we have gone for tough and spiney perenials and shrubs in the back garden and raised beds for salads in the front. We also have one and a half allotment plots so I love this time of year. It is so satisfying growing some of your own food not to mention tasty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJuff Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 I am rediscovering gardening and I'm hooked. My father grew veg when I was growing up and I admit i took no notice of what he did and when. Now I'm learning alongside Delia's kitchen garden book. I now have a raised bed with rocket, which I harvested today, red and brown onions, carrots, peas, webbs lettuce (for the chooks!) and broad beans. I also have a veg patch round the back of the garage with rapsberries, potatoes and a blackcurrant. Along the fence I have giant victorian peas and a thornless blackberry. In the middle are two apple trees, a James grieve and a bramley. Oh and I've trained a conference pear tree up the side of the garage wall! I'm so proud!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 It really is something to be proud of, we are so dependent on supermarkets etc in this country that if anything went wrong there would be mass panic. Your garden sounds great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
