So...the growing season appears to be over in our garden, and I have to say I am hugely disappointed with our veggie patch considering all the effort we put in. It took me weeks to dig out the tiny plot we ended up planting as I'm not very big, and rather weedy, and the ground was so hard and compacted!
I know the weather has been atrocious this year so that probably hasn't helped, but this is the outcome from our first year of growing:
Peas - went ok and we did actually get quite a few (never made it anywhere near a saucepan as they were just so yummy to eat raw!) but something has been eating them in the last few weeks.
Potatoes - never got around to getting them into rubble sacks like I'd planned, so I ended up chucking them on the compost heap which now looks like a jungle as the darn things have grown in it. I haven't quite got up the nerve to have a root around and see if there's actually any spuds to be collected as the plants were absolutely covered in slugs last time looked at them.
Pumpkin - one miserable-looking little plant left out of all the ones that I sowed. The others have drowned and this one is hardly doing anything at all.
Tomatoes - eventually got some on the plants but they're not ripening at all.
Strawberries - planted 3 pots for the grand total of less than 10 strawberries between them.
Sweetcorn - not even slightly looking like they're going to be ready this side of the next millenium.
Carrots - hilarious. All curled around each other when you pull them out of the ground.
I think it is a combo of the bad weather, bad soil and (in the case of the carrots at least) probably planted them too close together I guess.
So, in an attempt to not be put off at the first hurdle my thoughts are turning to container gardening instead.
I very much like the look of this
winter vegetable selection pack and was wondering if anybody could advise as to whether I could grow it in containers? And, if so, roughly how many (and what size) containers I would need?
Many thanks if you got this far and can help!
Ali