#gardening book

As I told you last year, for the past few Springs, I’ve been sitting and drawing out my Kitchen Garden Plan. In fact, I start mulling and reflecting over it (and even dreaming about it!), in the dead of Winter; when the trees are bare and the soil either sodden and muddy or frozen. I survey the space, and I envision vegetables sprouting out of the earth and it cheers me up and inspires me.

And thus, when the weather holds, I start working on the soil, like starting a Lasagna Garden(Update One) (Update Two) or labouring in the Veg Patch Extension.

Then, I start sowing seeds, inside, in egg boxes, and I watch them grow, and I watch the skies too. And when it is finally Spring again and warm enough I plant seedlings and sow seeds in the Kitchen Garden, hoping the harvest will match the drawing!

So here’s my Kitchen Garden Plan for 2022, the Veg Patch part of it, at least (there is another bed, by the wire fence on which I am stil working!) In black, are fruits, herbs, flowers and vegetables grown from seeds (either sown inside and planted as seedlings, or sown directly in the Patch.) In blue, are vegetables grown from scraps; and in red, the date I planted or sowed them.

Every year, I try to use what I’ve learned and observed to make my plants happier, and hopefully more generous. I am always ambitious, but I’ve enhanced my companion planting even more, and I’ve relied on the power of marigolds to repel aphids and other pests, and to make it look pretty! 

Here’s to a bountiful harvest, but more importantly, to fun days pottering in the garden!