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…)
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Being a Kitchen Gardener!
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009From Little Acorns …
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
I love trees! I feel really privileged to now have a garden with some large specimen trees already in place (a gorgeous copper beech, some large sycamores and even a couple of grand old oaks!), but I’m dying to plant some more! I realise that maybe in my lifetime trees we plant now will probably not reach their full potential, but then it’s not just about us but also about future generations. You may remember from an earlier post that we have a lot of self-sown oak trees in the bottom paddock and that we had planned to dig some up and put them in pots and see how we get on with them. Well, that was another thing I did on Saturday afternoon in the glorious sunshine – we went on an Oak hunt! I dug up 5 in total; four are small and a couple of them look a bit sorry for themselves, but that might just be the time of year – it is Autumn after all! However I was extremely chuffed to find a rather larger one (around 40cm) which had grown very close to the hedge and had therefore survived past grass cutting, hence it’s height. It looks very healthy at the moment so let’s hope it stays that way! (more…)