allotment blues

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It's got to go.
Does anyone grow veg in a small back garden?

I do but only started this year, so no expert.

Veg plot is about 5m x 5m.

We have 2 raised beds, each 2mx1m.

It is our first year of this htough!

Lats year we grew blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, peas, tomatoes and various herbs in pots.

Okay. So quite a lot from 2m x 1m.
Thank you.
How high are the raised beds>

Oh no! I'd kill for an allotment but I know they are very, very time-consuming

I grow baby carrots, radishes, 8 different herbs, peppers, tomatoes, celery, cut-and-come-again salad leaves and strawberries just in pots on my terrace in town garden so it's perfectly possible to do it in a small back garden as long as you have an open aspect and plenty of sun. Blackcurrants are v. easy and look after themselves too.

Make sure you construct raised beds using materials that won't make a great home for slugs and woodlice and other pests!!

How much space do you allow for all that?

We have a tiny garden which has to be sorted out. So now would be the time to think veg. I'm sorry to lose the allotment but it makes sense.

Terrace is reasonably large: dunno really, about 7.5 m x 5m (but that includes steps up to lawn ifswim and I have some pots on there)

Have some pig ugly but practical plastic troughs about 2 m long x 0.5m high x 0.75 m w.

oo, ME ME ME

Ok so our garden isn't tiny but its not big we grow the following in 2 raised beds (aprox 4m x 1m each):

Lettuce (4 varieties), rocket, pak choi, spinach, cabbage, kale, peas, runner bean, borlotto beans, dwarf bean, courgettes, articokes, fennel, celery, carrots (2 varieties), sweetcorn, radish, chard, purple sprouting brocolli. Plus we also have a few cottage garden flowers as well. Its a bit overpacked but it looks great, very cottage gardeny. Oh an tomatos, cucmber, chilli, herbs, strawberrys in pots.

Sorry lots of typos

I have tiny concreted/gravelled garden but I have pots which at the moment have
Courgettes (4 plants...they weren't all supposed ot survive) cherry toms, normal toms, spinach, rocket, lots of herbs (2 winodw boxes full) 2 more window boxes of cut and come again mixed lettuce leaves, french beans, peas and strawberries

Only my first year as well!

Another tiny tiny container veg garden here -peas, beans, courgettes, carrots, lettuce, chives, basil, toms, blueberries - all in pots. Autumn rasps, tayberries, logan berries crammed in along the perimeter. Broccoli and kale coming along in the 'nursery' garden (aka on window ledge).