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A Garden is What You Make It

14/5/2014

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We have spent the past couple of days getting-the ground ready for this year's veggie garden. The master plan says that this plot of land will eventually be home to two elderberry and my annual herb patch, but since the site of the permanent veggie garden is currently being cleared and fertilized by the goats, a small veggie garden is better than no veggie garden.
it is a far cry from our last veggie garden, it isn't even big enough to provide us with all the produce we will eat this summer. The last garden was close to two acres and it's prime designation was a market garden, it required close to 90 man hours a week to plant, weed and harvest. 
I am estimating this one will be less than an hour a day. Sometimes it m seems like a huge step back in order to move forward.
Gary and Matt working in our market garden in full summer glory:
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The size of this years plot is approximately 15' by 70'. I do have to say that we were very surprised when we tilled it up. There was almost no garbage, and it has some of the best soil we have encountered on the farm. A nice loam, a little too sandy, but the beasties have been busy producing organic matter all winter.
Here is the new garden in all its brown glory
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Glorious isn't it! To be absolutely honest I am just so thankful to have a garden that I know is mine, and no one can change their mind about and take away from me. I would probably be happy growing tomatoes and lettuce in a planter at this point. The biggest issue is going to be working away at the knotweed down at the end of  the garden. I would prefer to not have to bring a mini backhoe in to remove the mess.
Over the next few days I will be putting the transplants in. Some tomatoes: Golden Boy, plum, cherry and scotias. I have onion sets, and some garlic ready to go. I will be direct seeding table cukes, pickling cukes, a few zucchinni (for relish), lettuce, spinach, pole beans, broad beans, peas and kholrabi.
So that will be this years veggie garden, some will say it is a step down from what we had, I prefer to think of it as a small step sideways as we steady ourselves from the big leap forward.
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Thai Escort Londonderry County Borough link
28/3/2025 01:16:31 am

I love the idea of having your own space for gardening.

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