Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables: Growing plants in the vegetable patch

Saturday 16 January 2010

Growing plants in the vegetable patch - that are not vegetables or fruit...

There are plants that I grow on the allotment that are there for other reasons than providing food to go on our plates.

They might be there because they attract the beneficial insects and wild life such as bees and hover flies.

They might be there beacause I like and have found useful the planting of companion plants.

They might be there to form a barrier such as a low growing hedge along a shared boundary.

Lavender is useful for at least two of the above.

here is a link to a page that is about plants that are benificial to bees...

Bees. What plants to grow to make Bees Happy.

I have to thank my wonderful husband for all the time and effort he put into helping me get the allotment 'in order'. As on my own it had been impossible to lay paths and clear some of the deep rooted brambles that we had on the plot.

Eventually with his help, we got to the stage where it had paths and looked like a real allotment. Together we created a place that was a timeless place, an escape from the modern world.

Thank you, for all your time and hard work and also for sharing my enthusiasm for digging up the first new potatoes of the year.

Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

Saturday 16 January 2010

Growing plants in the vegetable patch - that are not vegetables or fruit...

a healthy potato plant in flower

home grown carrots.. grown from seed

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful