Kitchen Garden Blog.
I would be a keen kitchen gardener again, if only my dreams for a kitchen garden moved beyond the planning stage!
There's something so satisfying about planning an edible garden - it leaves hardly enough time or motivation to get on with the grubby work!
Following a few outstanding years of hard gardening and bumper harvests, my garden got into a sorry state as it sank into its muddy patches over winter and looked empty with its bare patches from the summer heat.
Gardening is not something to give up on though - as every little action brings change and hope and enjoyment. With that in mind, I'm looking forward to spending extra time outside with nature in again. I hope to update my kitchen garden blog with a few of my discoveries about fruit and vegetables, including those that don't make it into the garden despite my best intentions.
Updates from my visits to local nearby vegetable gardens around Kent, Surrey, London and Sussex, having neglected them for so long, will be posted here - too many times I've visited beautiful locations but haven't made a note about them to remind me and let others gain a sense of the joy to be found different kitchen gardens.
It's so interesting, discovering how different ingredients can be used in recipes or particular uses of them for health or some other purpose, just as they are, so will add any recipes and details where possible. Each year I mean to add something about rose hip syrup; the garden's wild rosehips look splendid at the moment - it would be a shame to not to make a small amount of delicious vitamin C 'boosting' syrup but I will make sure most are left on the plant for the birds and other small animals to enjoy in the colder months ahead.
There's so much to read and discover about kitchen gardens that it would be remiss to leave out any good books, magazines or articles that grab my attention, so I might cover a few that get my attention.
So where do I start, when I things couldn't get much busier for me, the weather is becoming less inviting and I'm feeling somewhat unfit at the moment?
It would be useful to read through my past gardening notes to see my plans as they were, the last one being, November 2019 - these won't be too overwhelming as my garden plans at the time were somewhat 'leave and let live' - choosing the smallest effort possible to get my garden growing! I think it might still be the case, this time - a slow return to gardening.
Hopefully, I will stick to my plans this time!