well in the bid to keep us motivated we are gardening in containers this year . and already we have several very tiny lettuce seedlings and a couple cabbage seedlings, our black bag spuds seem to be doing well aswell. we also have french beans and carrots in but no signs of them yet .. I'm not to wo...

LOL its nice to see my first thread become a conversation . I don't mind one bit.

wow that has lots of information . thanks . I've bookmarked it to read when little one is sleeping .

Thakyou . I understand there are lots of different ways to do things I will find the way I feel most comfortable with and experience is a good teacher.

you have all been so helpful thankyou very much

In an ideal world yes i would love to be fully organic but the reason for doing this is mostly so that I can feed my family food that I know where it came from and whats been put on it. so I am not adverse to using chemicals as long as I know what they are and that they are safe .

thankyou so much for that post its very helpful. your right it is big enough for us to get going aall in one go( with another side to bring in if it goes well this year , right now its barked for the children to play in) we are growing tomatoes in a growbag and carrots in a bucket or two I plan to g...

thanks everso much for the help. we spent yesterday clearing some of the weeds and bromb;es but i know whe haven't dealt with the problem as a lot of the roots are still in place .

I will take all of your advice into consideration and reasearch some more .
thankyou
Jane

Hiya I am new here and this is my very first post so be kind . I am a novice gardener in every sence of the word I haven't grown anything ever but we have a largeish space in our garden that never gets used and hence is always overgrown . we have decided to put it too use and turn it into a veggie p...