Ziggys' West Bay,Dorset Veg Plot

Great thread Ziggy, a living, breathing review of a great plot as its grown over the year. Pics are great and really bring it to life. Great for people like me who need a bit of inspiration. :WINK1: Thumbs up from me Sir!

 

Cheers Mr M,

Glad you like it.

Here's the Garlic that was planted 2 weeks ago.



This variety is Marco, the other lot has only just started to sprout.

 

Looking good Ziggy.

Can you bottle some of that sunshine please and send it my way.

 

One bit of bottled sunshine coming right up

 

I said sunshine Ziggy not mushrooms!

 

Mostly mundane weeding & digging at the moment, but heres a few shots of the place.



Garlic is coming on well,




Not a very good shot, but these two have been in the field for the past couple of weeks amusing me by stomping up and down with their feet & then eating the worms that come up.

Don't try to photograph the greenhouse when the sun is on it.

 

The view looks lovely Zig...what a great place

 

I agree, what a nice space!!

 

Don't see anyone for days on end down there, just cats, birds & foxes. Pity the sheep have gone now though, they were a bit of company.

All the Rosemary cuttings have taken, just put some Bay cuttings in, something to sell at the carboot sales later in the year.

 

Sounds perfect to me Zig

 

Dug this Mutha of a Sugar Beet this afternoon.



Whatever happened to Atticus L ? He sent me loads of great seeds, got all enthusiastic about the Walking Stick Cabbage Challenge & then never came back.

I'm sure he'd love to see how his stuff came out:(

 

you look like the veg expert ziggy. what do you recomend variety wise for early veg.

 

:D Cheers Graham, i'm a bit random for an expert More hit & miss, but i'd certainly get some stuff on thats not tender, don't mind a bit of frost, like Beetroot, Carrots & stuff. Got Germination of the Mizuna today, still waiting on the Cos lettuce. Bear in mind i've got cold frames to get things going & that i'm a mile from the South Coast though so the sea influence usually keeps the worst of the weather off (except the wind, always the wind)

In a few weeks, i'll start some Mange Tout peas in the coldframes, as well as some Dwarf Lop Eared French Beans.

 

What do you do with the sugar beet Zig?...

 

great!!!:D i've got spinach, rainbow chard, carrots, jerusalum artichokes, curly kale, salard turnips, corn salard, japenese mustard and a type of rocket in my veg patch and i'm cropping it gradually.
just put in 120 garlic cloves.
i grew mizuna last season and will use it again, i had treetreetreetree brussels this winter, also my parsnips failed:(