Plant vegetable garden
I must admit my fingers are not green, however my house mate does more than his fair share of planting. I uploaded a blog yesterday on Guerrilla gardening - Beautiful vandalism and I think this is such a great idea. In fact if there is anyone in the Dublin area who would like to do some Flash mob gardening let me know!
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I have had a vegetable garden for the last few years now, but it gets so hot in the summer that it's almost unbearable to take care of it...
started last year with lettuces, herbs and onions in old-disussed-turned-on-their-side-lockers and this year built raised beds with sleepers and wooden boxes (from old floorboards)and am now growing: spuds, onoins, lettuce, carrots, beetroots, brocoli, chard, spinache, rhubarb, strawberries, rasberries, blueberries, red current and lots of herbs!
I live in a village and dont have a big garden. the satisfaction is enormous.....I took out the first carrot yesterday and it was scruptious. A highly recommended goal and do-able even if you have little space!!
Moved into new house - whole garden laid down to lawn with steep banks of bark covered beds with enormous mallows - yuck
this year have built two small raised beds filled with sea weed (from across the road)home compost and county council compost. filled with potatoes (growing now) and perpetual spinach - all watered liberally by little boy who is fond of weeing on them (apparantly it is great if diluted 1:20) have scraped back bark, decimated mallows and planted raspberries, blackcurrants, strawberries, loganberries, rhubarb and yes more spuds will keep you up to date with how much we actually harvest, but the garden is a lot more interesting to look at and children are really engaged in whole thing.
that is reasonable as long as you divide that time up during the week.
say, like 20 minutes every few days to water and pull up a few weeds etc..
I agree with cafegurl19. If you just spend a little while each day or so that will be plenty. If you start the plants indoors you really dont have to worry about them too much. Then in spring you plant them outside and water and weed them every now and then. Honestly you can let them grow wild and they will probably be ok.
hia, i grow in dublin, am in year three of learning. did allot with my dad when i was young and worked on farms as a teenager. 30 now and living in dublin with a nice back garden. to really get output from the garden with only 2 hours a week, just grow spuds! easiest to grow. Best is to put a little more time in and get your basics that you like to eat the most. Lettuce, Onions etc. To really get output a half hour to one hour each day is optimum if you work a job! Get a good book on "Beginners Growing" too. Good luck!
