Can I join in here? I'm a keen, if entirely amateur, gardener.
I'm on my second year growing, slowly making my garden into an allotment
I have one 12ft by 4ft bed, a 3ft by 3ft area that's very shallow so not easy to grow in, and hundreds of pots. I have a few pear trees, cherry trees and apple trees- mostly in huge pots, but one damson tree at the bottom of the garden, and one espaliered apple tree against a fence( which has Bourne me no fruit yet, but is looking very fine stretching across the fence) all planted last year. I also have soft fruit in pots- strawberries, black, white and red currants, which the birds had all of last year
, one red / one yellow gooseberry , again I only has three gooseberries between them last year, a raspberry cane, and all the herbs.
Last year I succeeded with second earlies, courgettes, runner beans, peas, beet root, carrots, tomatoes, sweetcorn l, kale, chard and aubergine. I failed on broad beans, cauliflower, broccoli, mini sweetcorn, pumpkins, squash, chicory, red endive, cabbage, brussel sprouts, mint
and leeks.
This weekend I've, probably prematurely, sown broad beans, aubergine, and two types of tomatoes. Got potatoes chitting. I've cleared the garden and checked the two beds, planned another three 3ft by 3 ft beds to be built in the next few weeks and counted my spare pots to make sure I don't sow too much again. I've learnt more about soil too- I think a lot of last years failures were down to inadequate knowledge of soil/ rotation/ feeding. I just planted and hoped for the best really. The spring bulbs coming up in the garden have ignited my obsession with growing and now I feel I'll have to wait forever til spring proper