Essex newbie

Hi all
My name is steve and I'm form Wickford in Essex I'm a newbie and have started in the last year getting hooked on growing fruit (some veg) .

I had a 50 foot by 2 foot old flower bed that we cleared a couple of years ago .

I have a 3 year old grand son that eats fruit like its going out of fashion so last year I planted 2 thornless blackberry plants 1 Raspberry plant, 3 blueberry plants I have had great results this year and have now added 3 redcurrant plants and 2 black currant plants had fruit off all of them , 4 varieties of tomato ( they went wild and I cant now determine which is which...lol) some strawberries and as a test 10 garlic cloves .

I have dug up the strawberries and garlic and one the toms have finished I`m planting 3 goji berry plants .

So that bed will be full of fruit bushes , after my success this year I built a 10 metre x 1 metre raised bed, a 6 compartment herb bed on legs (may divide it inot 12 sections ) and a 10 metre x 300mm x 300mm planter which I have filled with 27 heather plants , this is designed to keep the chickens from scratching the mud onto the lawn .

Thanks for reading my drivel , I will have lots of stupid questions very soon and will post some pics up too.

Steve

 

Hi Steve, welcome to GC.

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner

 

Welcome to GC Steve. Wickford.....not to far away from where I was reared, in Benfleet.

 

Thanks for the welcomes Benfleet very close .

 

Welcome!

 

Welcome! I'm near to you in Stanford Le Hope

 

Hi Ellen and Jane , yep close!

 

Hello and welcome. You will like it here.

 

Hello there and Welcome.

 

Welcome to GC EssexSteve... Enjoy

 

Thanks

 

Will look out for it....you would be more than welcome to come and visit mine later in the year and show me how to prune all my fruit bushes ...lol

Steve