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Thanks for asking Woman. This was my "August" picture (I've been doing one a month this year). The legume bed has been particularly successful. The potatoes got a bit of blight but still a decent crop (much of which is still to be dug up but I've cut off the shaws). Onions and salads also good. Cabbages and cauliflower coming on nicely but must thin the parsnips and turnips.

If you look carefully, you can see some of the pears on the top lawn (this was before the major drop). The pear tree is the big one at the back.

Should be relatively self sufficient, should the worst to the worst

Your garden looks lovely. I'm hoping to be fairly self sufficient next year so I can hopefully avoid sharp price increases from 2019. I would like chickens, a pig, and a few pairs of rabbits but have been told that's going a bit far and there are lots of foxes round us.

I've got the veg beds and the fruit trees, plus raspberry canes, a blackcurrant and a redcurrant bush - the rest is flower borders. Technically, "our" garden is the left hand side (veg beds across to the left wall, and the weeping cherry is the boundary on the top half), while our downstairs' neighbours have the right hand half (most of it out of picture).

We have a mot of urban foxes artisanjam - but they seem to co-exist with the large cat community.

We've even got photos and videos of a couple of adolescent foxes playing with a ginger cat in the back garden. we think they thought it was another fox

I've not had much success with my garden, my onions went to seed, my lavender died, my daffodils just disappeared.....

This was the first time my onions didn't go to seed. The radishes and rocket did though.

The big Brexit vegetable debate:

TURNIPS.

The End.

The soil in my garden is composed of half bricks, cement and bits of rusty wire. Our house was one of the last two built the estate so all the crap was dumped here. I will start growing our own but am mostly limited to pots . Still we have done lettuce, tomatoes, runner beans and carrots. Just not this year.

Placemat king.

I think.

I'm a bit confused about which thread is which.

Oh a much needed support page for those facing a marrow courgette glut I am the one who was so pleased with how vigorous her Courgette seedlings were that she planted three out and they really are vigorous. And then I planted a Crown Prince and a Kurri Kurri squash next to them. Its like day of the triffids....... The neighbours are probably as sick of courgettes as we are! I can barely get to my Borlotti beans (they are the haut cuisine of beans really recommend them) I also had a bumper crop from my Tomatoes and Blackcurrants and blackberries but the latter are all now jam or marinating to become cassis and creme de mures to keep me going through the 2018 political disasters. I have started an asparagus bed too which is looking good for first cuttings in its third year in the spring and for the first time I am experimenting growing Tomatillos ( because DDs bought me a Mexican cookbook and there are more recipes for those than tomatoes )

NO plums though which is a pity as I have amassed a huge number of recipes to cope with that glut......

Sapphire Not this one unless you want to join in the glut talk.....

I grew heritage tomatoes this year which have done well, but don't work as well for cooking. I'm going to go for beef tomatoes next year and chillis which seem to grow surprising well.

We should get this thread moved. Or get it retitled as Dig for Brexit, or some such.

Any ideas as to what I should plant in an area 5m by 3m?* South east facing so sunny much of the time.

*Should I be quoting that in imperial measures? If so approx 14 ft by 10ft - give or take a few inches.

I've grown some purple podded peas from the Heritage Seed Library.

They have very pretty flowers and are now purple podding

I succeeded with the beef tomatoes for the first time this year, usually they don't mature in time but this year I cheated and bought the grafted ones, they are heavenly, better than the plum ones. I am up to 4 types of chillis, jalapeños, ancho, pardon and a huge black one that grows to 6 feet that I grow just because it does really! I have forgotten the name of it. They go on well into winter as well. I forgot to mention the aubergines too, my aim is to have all the ingredients for sichuan fish frangranced aubergines for elements so we can have a little Chinese corner of post Brexit Britain, though I might actually be in China if they fuck it up as badly as it looks like they will....

You're in the South, aren't you Peregrina?

You could probably grow some sweet corn (grind it down for polenta), plenty of courgettes (to add to the glut). They can be grown as climbers, so you can use your vertical space.

Peas, runner beans and broad beans. Sweet peas are good with runner beans (helps their pollination), so you can get some lovely cut flowers too.

Peregrina Not courgettes and pumpkins or you will have to keep your doors locked! Actually I grow the Kurri Kurri squash up poles so they don't take up as much space. It is small and sweet. I am evangelical about Borlotti beans as the fresh ones are nothing like the tins and you rarely see them in the shops, velvety and they soak up the flavours of whatever sauce you use, delicious even if it is just oil and garlic. Rocket and mixed oriental greens are quick to grow and taste so much nicer than shop bought bagged ones. Spinach is cut and come again too. Growing peas to harvest as pea shoots, you sow the peas closely together. Good to have a bed of herbs too like Parslep, Chervil, Coriander Bazel (the latter if you keep it dry and treat it mean is so much more pungent than the shop bought type . It is worth a bed of potatoes, as a variety like Charlotte is so delicious when freshly dug . Unfortunately all my salad crops have disappeared beneath the triffids!!

Like Pretty I have raised beds (mine are very raised in an attempt to keep the dog off! A metre wide so you can reach the middle you can have fun with different designs. Perhaps a Union Jack theme with triangular beds to prove your patriotism

Oh yes Broad beans are another bean that are so much nicer fresh.

Forgot about fruit too, depending on what you like you can get amazingly productive new types of currant bushes, raspberries that fruit almost all season etc

Some good ideas, thanks. I forgot to add, I killed my sweat peas this year by going away when we had hot weather and they died. I really am pretty cr*p but have resolved to be better in future.

You're near me I think Peregrina - same MP!

Courgettes grow wildly, but sweetcorn and beans also look good and there seems to be absolutely masses of fruit, so if you have space for an apple tree or plum tree and can plant it this year, you might get fruit next.

I want to work on having more veg throughout the summer and to work out what to plant. This year we've had very little until about 2 weeks ago so I need to investigate lettuces etc.

Yes, I am near you and I would like an apple tree. Must get that sorted out - I have even marked out a potential spot.

A possible metaphor, the triffids

There is by the way an espaliered apple on the trellis, which is a way not to lose space, this is its second year and I got a couple of 10p supermarket bags full from it. Beyond that I have a project to espalier a Kiwi...

Wow, all you growing lot are awesome.

Re: triffids, my df is growing something in his garden I swore was about to take over the world

ron, I don't grow my own, so no glut, sadly. But I am facing the very middle-class nightmare of having Two Bags of Organic Veg Box Potatoes to use up. Have made so many potato curries I'm turning into one. Can't be arsed doing roasts or mash. Help!

BTW is 'espaliering a Kiwi' a euphemism?