willay
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We grow alot of veg at home, tomatos, green beans, courgettes , carrots, potatos, onions, garlic, lettuce and stawberries! amazing how good fresh veg is when its been grown outside in the garden!
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ed
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An allotment only costs £13 a year? Might be fun  
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Simon
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Registered: 24th Apr 03
Location: Oxfordshire
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Yeah they are very cheap, only problem can be some places have 100s of people on the waiting lists for them, can take years. I found a place near me that capped their waiting list at 15 people to stop that happening, managed to get in contact with them at the right moment when there was a space
Couple of snaps from yesterday
potatoes and carrots
Courgettes and Beans
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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Little tiny red spider have appeard everywhere today?
Google says maybe clover mites?
Any ideas? is it just the stormy weather? Something i need to deal with?
:O
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
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they are just red berries
perfect to eat
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Dan
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anne graham?
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Dan
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Well they only lasted a day, and they all gone now
Stuff is growing really really well, my peas are like 3ft tall lol. Need bigger canes.
Still no sign of any tomatoes /flowers yet.
I have about 15 strawberrys on my plant though 
Thinking about going and buying 3 or 4 more plants, and making them a dedicated area of the garden, in a big pot or similar
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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Last year, I tried growing too much, more for the sake of saying "Im growing this, that and the other....".
This year, ive scaled right back and chose only to grow the core veg now, which is
-Tomatoes
-Range of lettuces (alot),
-Parsley (I use this in everything),
-Mint (I love lamb and mint),
-Chives (I use this in alot of homemade dips).
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am4nf
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Registered: 27th Jul 08
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My leeks were going great, but have seemed to plateaux
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Simon
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Registered: 24th Apr 03
Location: Oxfordshire
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What happened to the chilli growing that a load of people were having a go at? I've got a few on the go but only planted them couple weeks ago
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Limecat
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I'm still on it! 
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Simon
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Registered: 24th Apr 03
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Just done my daily water, going to pick some of the courgettes tomorrow and stick em on bbq, on the small side at the moment but I'm impatient few snaps:
beans
sprouts, cabbage and sweetcorn
courgettes
beetroot
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Simon
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Registered: 24th Apr 03
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Photo from today, mate sent me a packet of turnip seeds, may be a little late but dug up the new area to the left and stuck them in the ground. Got the windows over them to give them a little help. He also sent me a packet of sunflower seeds and challenged me to a tallest plant competition So I dug the curved strip to the bottom and planted a series along there. Should make a nice wall of flowers around the little bit of grass which I'm keeping to stick a bench or something on.
Everything is doing pretty well, courgettes I think are now technically marrows, biggest I have is approx. 60cm long
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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I failed spectaulaly at growing this year, my flowers did ok and my potatoes and raddish, the soil is shit at my plot though, no good soil was put down on them with them only being poultry plots, Im gonna make a raised bed over winter and put some good quality soil in
I have a 8.5 foot sunflower though, still no signs of a flower on it either, its gonna be fucking massive
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Simon
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Registered: 24th Apr 03
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So now its getting cold how have the veg growing pose done? Think I've done ok considering I'd never grown anything before May this year. Most things have been harvested and dying off now but still got broccoli, cabbages, brussel sprouts and some garlic which will keep going into and over winter.
Here's some photos I took at various points, now in no particular order
Broccoli starting to look good
Security
sweetcorn, reactor running a bit high
one harvest
turnips
spuds
courgettes! Gave so many away, even gave some to a local pub/restaurant in exchange for beer tokens 
brussel sprouts
Anotehr harvest
globe artichokes
bench area, picked the bench up for free of freecycle, needs a bit of repair
sunflower
garlic in car tyre beds, got 3 of these made up, old tyres are free so ideal for this.
onions
sunflowers around bench area
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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I ended up not having a bad crop of king edwards, lettuce and cabbage a few weeks back
put some more chabbage plants in this morning
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Simon
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Registered: 24th Apr 03
Location: Oxfordshire
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My cabbage and sprouts were getting destroyed by slugs and caterpillars, had to build a big netting enclosure around them all, seems to have stopped the worse of it now though
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Hammer
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I'll be back on this next time around, only thing I had that survived my lack of attention was the carrots.
I had used shite soil though that was my main problem.
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Kerry
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Registered: 5th Oct 01
Location: Norwich
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We grew bell peppers and jalepenos, few herbs and strawberries.
Gonna go for it next year
I know what you mean about it being addictive!!
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