One of the things we are most excited about living at Waterloo Farm is being able to grow our own fruit and veg. On our garden design we know exactly where our ‘kitchen garden’ is going and we have plans for fruit trees and a fruit cage, so hopefully at some stage in the future we will be able to grow plenty of different fruit and veg. However, at the moment, where the veg patch will be needs a lot of work – it was once a redundant ditch which we have had to fill in and is covered in nettles and other weeds, so a lot of preparation is going to be required before we can grow anything on it! So the irony is, with a 2 acre garden, we currently don’t have anywhere prepared for growing vegetables! (more…)
