h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

At the risk of sounding like an old lady at the grand old age of 31, I'm really starting to get into my gardening. It's awesome reaping the fruits (and veg) of your harvest and nurturing plants you've grown from scratch

I'm almost finished drying out my first crop of basil leaves from plants I've grown from seed. I've dried herbs before from supermarket plants, but my home grown ones smell absolutely amazing My pepper plants are nice and healthy, my pea plants look like they'll flower soon and I've even managed to grow some courgette plants This is fun!

That's really great. I hope you continue to enjoy the fruits of your labour.

Thank you! It's a nice way to pass the day and as I've planted everything in pots it's a lot easier on my back.

Raised beds are another good idea. I've seen gardens prepared for people in wheelchairs where there is no bending at all.

I'd like to do that in time, but it's going to involve a lot of topsoil as our garden soil is full of clay. The only thing we could get to grow in it was tatties, but they are like the weeds of the vegetable world

Mmmm. Tatties

Our soil is like that too, fords. When I made an attempt to dig a vegetable patch, I actually just dug a hamster-sized swimming pool. And I made little pots out of the 'soil'. Then I gave up, put the soil back in and bought some turf to try to patch up the mess. Raised beds would be the only way in this garden.

I'm using the wee bit of ground to the left of our back door. I don't want to put turf down again so I want to put slabs down over the failed veggie patch. Slabs will also give our wee greenhouse a bit more stability and stop the rabbits from trying to burrow under the fence

Are the rabbits trying to get in or out?

Out unfortunately. They have the run of our garden on sunny days where there's lots of grass to eat, but I caught Sampras trying to dig a hole to get to next door's bunny.