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Thank you for the tips, it might be what has affected my peas this year.

Thanks Mike, I believe you have given me the confidence to go ahead to use the old kitchen units and save sending them to landfill - I may as well get some use out of them before they rot. I am thinking of 'prettying' the area with some low picket fencing as the hardstanding (the base of an old farm...

I am planning on raised beds on some hardstanding in the garden. Any ideas where I might be able to get old scaffolding boards/railway sleepers or such like? The teeny ones in DIY stores and garden centres are hugely expensive! I've tried freecycle, nothing going there... I am re-fitting my kitchen ...

Thanks to all for your warm welcome. Muddy Witch, that is exactly the advice I need! I don't plan to turn the entire garden into a veggie spot, just a part of it which is about 40ft by 18ft in total. There is nothing but a field of dandelions in the entire plot, with which I hope to make wine with. ...

Hi Gang :wave: I live in Bedfordshire and am about to (hopefully) move into a new house with a large (half acre) north facing garden. I'd like to start a good sized veg garden and I have asked for a potting shed for Christmas! What would be the first thing to do, to start efficiently making a veg pl...