In my head I have created the most beautiful cottage garden with every vegetable that can be grown in the English climate and an abundance of flowers and herbs, too.
If I bought every kind of seed I had scribbled a little star next to, it would cost over £200 so I have had to scale my plans back somewhat for the practical world!
The garden in my head will never fully come to fruition, of course, but I do love to dream. It's so easy to be optimistic when it's really too cold and wet for digging and the weeds are mostly dormant.
I'm enjoying learning about different varieties of vegetables on offer this year - comparing them and deciding which will best suit my windy garden. I'm being bold and daring, thinking about trying things I haven't managed before. I'm scribbling sketches of how it might work, a vegetable jigsaw.
Mostly this year I'm excited about growing things that can't be found in the shops or at the market - stripy things, veggies in untraditional colours, herbs that can't be bought in the shops at all any more.
On the windowsills I have salad crops, greens, and tête-à-tête poking through the soil and there's a new batch of seed sprouts this morning - all keeping my green fingers occupied until my seeds arrive.
I need to get cracking on some more clearing up work out in the real garden but for now, today, I might enjoy the dreaming a little longer...
What growing plans do you have this year? Are you attempting anything new or unusual?
Strange to read this as I was just thinking about planting a garden, Im normally too ambitious for my talents so Im sticking to salad leaves, herbs and strawberries lol. Id like to try cucumbers but even there above my talent.
ReplyDeleteCucumbers are very easy, if I could get strawberries to grow I would be most happy!
DeleteI may attempt cucumbers this year. I can get strawberries to grow but always struggle to get them ripe and harvest them before the slugs eat them!
DeleteActually to be fair my strawberries didnt do too well this year with all the rain but usually I find the birds are down in the strawberry patch the most, I'm not sure if they eat them but they at least knock them off.
DeleteI have posted about my garden today too! I am going to try following the biodynamic method of gardening this year.
ReplyDeleteOoh, I shall come over and have a read!
DeleteMy friend and I are planning what to plant in our shared garden. It is an exciting time but we are trying not to be too ambitious. There are 5 raised beds that are 10m x 2m so lots of space to fill. Our brassicas have been murdered bt slugs or rotted by rain so we have somewhat of a black canvas, aside from the onions which have miraculously survived the deluge. We're using an online planner, quick and easy to sort out. Buy the seeds and getting them started is the hard bit. Happy growing! :)
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks so promising, Michelle, I can't wait to read more about your adventures. I love that you're sharing a plot with a friend.
DeleteWhat is the online planner you're using?
I'd love to have a garden and we're lucky to be sharing my parent's garden in New Zealand at the moment. I've just written about the beauty of this garden - http://onlybestforbaby.com/blog/2013/01/new-zealand-summer-garden/
ReplyDeleteI love your knitting. Who taught you to knit?
Lydia x
Hi Lydia - I learnt to knit from a children's library book and youtube videos!
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