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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Leaf on March 31, 2008, 14:10

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Leaf on March 31, 2008, 14:10

Heres some pics taken today, had this plot for a month now.

Was all like this after strimming (was 5' Tall!)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x175/maverik27/IMG_5112.jpg)

This is my bed system, for easy rotation etc, gonna put slabs or bark on top of landscape fabric

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x175/maverik27/IMG_5111.jpg)

this is the whole plot,

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x175/maverik27/IMG_5113.jpg)

and i think these are raspberries????

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x175/maverik27/IMG_5117.jpg)

Im gonna use the beds for veg, either seed bed or perenials in the centre, then use the as yet uncleared bit for fruit and small shed.
Not bad for 1 days work i suppose but its full of cooch grass and i dug it all by hand, going to dig the other half tommorow.

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: littlelisa on March 31, 2008, 15:36

what a pretty bed system!! Mind if I copy your design?? :-)

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: littlelisa on March 31, 2008, 15:43

what a pretty bed system!! Mind if I copy your design?? :-)

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: crowndale on March 31, 2008, 16:37

One days work?  rotovator or fork?  if its the fork then can I borrow you for a day?!!

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: mabel on March 31, 2008, 16:41

That looks so good, Fancy coming over to Zante :)   Well done.  bet your back is aching though.

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: henpecked on March 31, 2008, 17:34

I'm glad you've posted the pic of what you think are raspberries, I was about to do the same! I have them popping up all over my plot, I'm hazzarding a guess at rasps there seem to be some old-looking canes around the edges but these have come a long way from them!

Keep up the good work, your plot looks fab! We've had our plot about 3 weeks and it's coming along slowly but surely, my biggest 'to do' is to put up some fence so I can collect my chooks this week.

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: jack russell on March 31, 2008, 18:46

looking good mate if i had a rectangle plot i might of copied that design also :wink: are you putting in timber borders?

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Leaf on March 31, 2008, 19:06

one day with a fork, im 28 and a landscape gardener so i dig all day as a living, zante sounds nice, yes i am gonna put timber round the edge, just as soon as somthing suitable and free turns up.
and go ahead feel free to copy away, i love the look on the faces of those who have the regimental lines of crops at my lottie he he

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Bombers on March 31, 2008, 20:01

Blumin awsome i'd say! :o  - I think a re-plan on mine is on the way.
Totally agree with the "Regimental Lines" - Just like landing lights for the tree rats ehh?? :wink:

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Leaf on March 31, 2008, 21:01

BTW can anyone confirm if they are raspberies?

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Yorkie on March 31, 2008, 21:05

Does look like a raspberry cane to me.

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: WhippetMaster on March 31, 2008, 21:08

Yes the are raspberries!!!!

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Trillium on March 31, 2008, 21:17

Nice ground plan, but I wouldn't dare try a rotovator in them  :wink:

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Leaf on March 31, 2008, 21:24

no need to rotovate, double dug, never stand on them, mulch turn mulch turn, to much rotorvating and digging is realy bad for soil, i will hwever rotate my crops
Mal 8)

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: agapanthus on March 31, 2008, 21:49

They are summer rapsberries :)

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: deezkatz on March 31, 2008, 23:34

ooh i really like that system
I'm just planning mine now!! I doubt it will look anything like that though.

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Snap Dragon on April 01, 2008, 00:49

Wow... spot the landscape gardener!!!

Lovely design - can't wait to see it planted up... keep us updated with pics. :D

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Teen76 on April 01, 2008, 01:06

I do gardening for a living but my back still aches.

I really like your design.  So nice to see someone using their imagination!  

I have been forking over my new plot, not sure if it is the best way but I don't think my back could take double digging.  Will gradually raise them up I think.  I do have another good reason for not digging with a spade or a rotavator for that matter and that is the plot is full of bindweed roots and they are really thick so my guess is they have been there quite a while with no attempt to remove them.  I also have couch grass which is another nightmare.  I am getting there, very slowly, but I am getting there.

Well done for getting your patch done so quickly and making it look so good.  Can't wait to see the next pictures with all your veggies in.

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: lucywil on April 01, 2008, 08:52

Quote from: "Leaf"

one day with a fork, im 28 and a landscape gardener

that's cheating, not the fork, the landscape gardener bit!!

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: compostqueen on April 01, 2008, 09:25

I love that knot design!  It will be fab  :D  

You know now you've strimmed you could run over it a few times with the petrol mower to get it down still further. Makes it easier to get the sheet mulch etc to lie flat  :D

Title: some pics of my lottie
Post by: Angelah on April 01, 2008, 12:53

Novice question - how can you tell they're summer raspberries and not autumn ones?