Gardening successes/failures

[NorthernRaider]

This year I learned to (A) Not over water (B) ensure adequate drainage for my veg, I got a superb crop of Onions, carrots and Tomatoes, I was told and read online that its OK to just leave your carrots in the ground as long as you want until needed, they did not point out that doing so provide the slug population an all you can eat buffet, A rough guess from my small garden is I lost about 4 kilios of carrots that got their heads eaten away by sabre tooth slugs.

I did not try peppers or chillis this year but last year I grew about 20 nice large red ones, but the green ones died ( overwatering)

I used my dilapidated old conservatory as a defacto greenhouse, it is secure but really should be better ventilated.

I think by coupling two or three IBCs together and with some insulation ( more for stability than for heating or cooling) I could grow edible sized carp in the Conservatory.

FYI Urban types I've just seen pictures of a balcony on a tower block with mesh and netting up the side walls, across the windows and across the edge of the balcony with peas, big beans ( I think) toms growing very well, and spuds growing in rolled down part filled black plastic bags.

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FYI on the radio last week there is a guy in Gateshead T & W who has turned an old five berth caravan into a greenhouse.