The Garden in 2025 - what will you grow this year

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  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,410 Championing

    and thats the best way and attitude but most important enjoy it

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 1,411 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    those snowdrops look lovely @Bluebell21

    What flower is that @michael57? It's got some lovely colours!

    Oooh a plum tree, that sounds interesting, I've never come across that before! How is it going @just4once? It sounds like you have a lovely selection of fruit and veg growing, I bet you save some money on your food shop with all those home grown fresh fruit and veggies!

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,410 Championing

    its a hellebore i chopped and brought on it will be going to pastures new via one of the family soon the only thing i dont give them is my dahlias they have to wait for my demise for them

  • just4once
    just4once Scope Member Posts: 111 Empowering

    I have been thinking about this why do I grow food and yes it helps keep food bills down ,I like watching the process and feel quite chuffed when I harvest I can get lost in my own little world last summer I remember announcing to my bemused family that I had grown ratatouille for dinner all homegrown ingredients just add water I must do that again this year hopefully.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 11,035 Championing

    I do not think there is anything quite like growing your own food then eating it. Well done you. @just4once

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 184 Empowering

    How do you do cuttings from Helebores? I've been gathering the small self seeded plants this year but didn't know you could take cuttings?)

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,410 Championing

    ah sorry us old farmers call the division of the root system cuttings just pick a nice sized plant and chop the root ball best time is late winter or early spring

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 184 Empowering

    Aaah root cuttings .. Def a favorite:)

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 184 Empowering

    Finding both the stool & trolly invaluable tools..Much moving of bags from front to back garden. Compost, manure pots.. And easier than trying to get the barrow out of the shed.


    Plus the Hellebores and the bulbs.. Not yet outโ€ฆ

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  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,410 Championing

    ah i do love the hellebore plants

  • egister
    egister Posts: 931 Pioneering

    Growing fruits and vegetables in the garden is quite an expensive toy if you look at it from the point of view of saving on products from the store. I am thinking about Japanese dry garden)

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,410 Championing

    do a work in progress with pictures i would enjoy that

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 184 Empowering

    The latest Newsletter from Garden Organic

    https://gardenorganic-news.org.uk/cr/AQiQMRDm_o0HGNPC47gB-hY_1MXhE_XojcxLXIcOwlHrkEMo-qUhIC6ZpBq8UhE

    And Lidl is having its 'Garden Event' I might try some of their cold frames this year. In for another cold spell this week.

    My biggest costs are compost, manure, grit, and not purchased so often perlite & vermiculite.. Most of my seeds come from seed swaps (although I do have a bought box ready to be sown!! as well) And plants from a local pay as you feel plant sale..

    The display frame the bulbs are on was something neighbours were just chucking out! I keep meaning to find the time to sand it down & paint it..

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,410 Championing

    ah you cant beat growing from seeds and watching them flourish

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,410 Championing

    haha looks like me when dawnie sees more plants turn up