Kitchen Garden Blog : Planning a Kitchen Garden.
Several years ago, the garden resembled an allotment patch and provided bumper crops of a range of fruit and vegetables that might usually only be found in a local farm shop, albeit on a smaller scale...
Several years ago, the garden resembled an allotment patch and provided bumper crops of a range of fruit and vegetables that might usually only be found in a local farm shop, albeit on a smaller scale...
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| Planning the kitchen garden. |
There can be ups and
downs as a gardener - but efforts creating a kitchen garden back
then, which had involved a great deal of time and physical work to be
rewarded with those bumper crops, came to a grinding halt.
Attention had been
taken elsewhere out of necessity, and the kitchen garden had slowly
returned to its natural state of weeds and grasses, from which it had
begun…
On cold winter days,
with a hot chocolate or, perhaps, a cup of tea...gardeners imagine
how they want their gardens to be, come the summer months.
The plan was to make
the change and start growing fruit and vegetables, again - to eat
them and, this time round, to paint them!
And so it was, a few
winters ago, with snow and rain outside making the garden appear most
uninviting, that ideas for a new kitchen garden were jotted down.
The summer weather
arrived...and faded - and the garden remained as it was, with weeds,
wildflowers and wildlife – but no fruit or vegetable plots.
'Gardens are not
made by sitting in the shade.' (Proverb)