Is your garden wine friendly?

[falafael]

Lately, well past year or so, i have been slowly turning my garden from a nice 'sight', to something that will now be of use to me and serve me well, 2 greenhouses, dug up 5 by 3 bit of grass for 'test' vegetable patch for, onions, carrots, spinich, cauliflower, cabbage, runner beans, hops, strawberrys, raspberrys, peas...all of which will be either eaten, made into wine, or simply blanched and frozen.

On top of that i have a Apple, pear and a cherry tree as well, and yesterday, i went into the 'woods', and cam back with 3 elderberry trees for the garden as well.

My garden will soon be a place to sit and eat, as well as supporting both our meals, as well as the demijohns!!

Has anyone else turned there garden around, given the price of stuff nowadays, or just for simplicity of getting produce for winemaking easier!

 

[BrewStew]

nice one!

i'm still aching from Sunday's digging i rent my house and the garden was seriously neglected so took ALOT of work over the last 9 months getting it to the state that it's in now... i should ask my estate agents for a photo of it before i moved in (they took some for the inventory) and do a "before" and "after" shot lol.

last year i restored all the flower beds which had overgrown with grass and god knows what from neglect. swmbo and i removed a bramble riddled rockery that was immediately opposite the patio doors which effectively blocked in the patio in.. two days work and two tonnes of soil shifted TWICE! by hand once for digging out the rockery and placing the soil on the patio, then i had to skim the grass for my future veg patch to put on the old rockery dig site, then move the soil heap from the patio to the veg patch and fully dig it in with compost etc. i was knackered for a week!

last sunday was basically sorting out the flower beds by digging compost and sand cos the clay made it rock solid.... lifting grass from a pointless spot next to my garage which is ideal for tomatoes, setting up sweet pea canes, and sowing 20 odd varieties of veg and 5 herbs into every bit of open soil, including the flower beds, hanging baskets (for the broadleaf stuff out of the slug's reach) and plant pots!

i've got more digging this sunday for the rest of the March crops and even more in April! Phew!

 

[falafael]

good on you brew, my garden was a sight as well, but 4 years later, its nearly what i want it to be, minus the changes i am making wqith the vegetable patch...at least its a good bit of exercise,and don't that beer taste even better after a good day out there as well!!!!


You'll have to put up a picture, i will as well mate!!

 

[BrewStew]

i'll stick a piccy up when it's growing there's nothing but freshly dug dirt at the moment!