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Its July in the garden and all is well. Pretty much everything is doing well and nothing else has gone to the big garden in the sky.
Ive ignored all guidance on the corn and am still growing 4 of them in the same pot. The peas and mange tout are doing amazingly well, climbing up their little frame and sprouting wonderful pods. Ate some of the peas during the week, think they need a bit longer.
The courgette, Butternut squash and tomato are yet to do anything exciting, except the tomato is now about 4 foot tall.
Everyone in the house is amazed that I have not killed anything yet, and the garden of death has had a metamorphosis into the garden of life.

July 2nd, 2009 | Category: David's Farm, Growing around the UK, Phil's first garden, Uncategorized | Post to Facebook

The sweetcorn I bought came in a small pot with 4 plants in it, so I just planted this in a bigger pot and hoped they would grow. But Chris’s mum jean gave me a great tip yesterday, which was they need to be planted in a grid with lots of space in order to pollinate correctly. So this weeks task is to put them into the tubs and position them at the back of the garden in a grid. I also found this great page that tells you all about growing sweetcorn 

May 31st, 2009 | Category: Phil's first garden | Post to Facebook

I was looking for some guidance on the best conditions for growing peas, and found this really usefull page with everything you need to know, really simply laid out. http://usagardener.com/how_to_grow_vegetables/how_to_grow_peas.php

Am now going to move my peas to the end of the garden to get more sun.

May 25th, 2009 | Category: Around the UK | Post to Facebook

Ive just got my first photos back from one of the people that received the free seeds. Tamsin sent in these photos. she says “My tomato is about 7? tall and has baby tomatoes forming and lots of flowers. The lettuce also looks great. “. Great to see them all doing so well.

May 25th, 2009 | Category: Around the UK | Post to Facebook

So Ive finally moved house, and now have some real room to start growing some more. Not much flowerbed, but lots of room for little pots, and a few large pots already in place.

So ive not wasted any time and have started planting out some of the pots I had, also have planted some more seeds in the shed at the end of the garden that has a plastic clear roof. Hopefully it will be someway towards a greenhouse.

Below are the current collection that are growing

May 23rd, 2009 | Category: Phil's first garden | Post to Facebook

I bought two cucumber plants, one in somerset, one in wimbledon, and when I arrived at my new house planted them into one of the old troughs with a mix of old and new compost. I placed them around the side of the house out of the wind, but also out of the sun. Two days later they were not looking too good.

After getting the usual jokes from my housemates, “welcome to the garden of death” etc, I decided to move them around to the sunny garden.

Left them out over night and came back the next evening to find they had gone, I later discovered they had been buried by what I can only presume is cats or foxes? They are now officially dead. First casualty of the year. boooo.

May 23rd, 2009 | Category: Phil's first garden | Post to Facebook

Its great to hear so many of you are having early success with the seeds, if you have any photos please feel free to send them in and I’ll add them on the site.

I am also looking for other people to help contribute to the site and pass on a little bit of their experiences to others. If you are interested please drop me an email and I’ll set you up, its really easy and quite fun.

May 7th, 2009 | Category: Around the UK, Uncategorized | Post to Facebook

Well the summer is well and truly on its way, I’m sitting on the roof terrace, music playing sun blazing. I cant help but wonder how everyone is getting on with their seeds? Let me know how you are getting on, any early successes or problems.

You can now also leave any questions you may have on the New YouFarm Forum http://www.youfarm.org/forum/ 

So let me know how you are getting on and happy growing!

May 2nd, 2009 | Category: Around the UK | Post to Facebook

Yep is spring time and thoughts start turning to getting those veg going. I know what your thinking, “should you not have been planting ages ago?” . But a mixture of moving house lack of allotment and general busyness has led to me being slack.

So the local garden centre has come to the rescue and bobs your uncle I have some plants, not from seed but plants non the less.

The plants on the roof garden really suffer from not having enough water, especially on hot sunny days so I built this makeshift giant pot, out of the remains of last years green house (the one that blew away), hopefully this will give them enough water until I move house in a couple of weeks.

When I move I am going to have a garden! oh yes, the time has come at last to show what i can do. I am also still on the merton borough waiting list for allotments, the 3 - 6 month estimate has turned into a year already with not much sign of bearing fruit. So get your vegetables at the ready, its going to be a hot summer, lots of watering required and a bumper crop in the making!

May 2nd, 2009 | Category: Around the UK | Post to Facebook