It’s been at least six years since we last had a vegetable garden. But so far, we are following our usual seasonal trajectory by ordering a plethora of seeds, sketching potential layouts, and resolving that this year we will not make any of our past mistakes. So
This brings back memories of gardens past! I lived and breathed John Seymour’s OLD Self Sufficient Gardener for years. Can’t wait to see how this evolves.
I do wish you luck. But I also wish you pleasure and fun. I hope you plan to grow your own herbs too. It's a great pleasure to pick one's own fresh herbs for whatever you're cooking, knowing they are free of pesticides and full of flavour. Lavender is a wonderful thing to grow too, serving a variety of purposes from smellable to edible. Just don't ever plant cucumbers near squash: the cross pollinated results produced two of the most bitter things I've ever tasted.
Thanks for the good wishes. I had a few herbs in pots last year -- as with produce, I have learned to plant what I'll use in quantity (rosemary, thyme, parsley, cilantro). But I do love lavender and would like to add it to the mix. No worries about cucumbers though -- we don't really eat them so we won't be growing them!
This brings back memories of gardens past! I lived and breathed John Seymour’s OLD Self Sufficient Gardener for years. Can’t wait to see how this evolves.
Terri, I'm pretty sure I bought The Self-Sufficient Gardener on your recommendation! It's a great reference.
I’ll have to take a peek at his newer one.
I do wish you luck. But I also wish you pleasure and fun. I hope you plan to grow your own herbs too. It's a great pleasure to pick one's own fresh herbs for whatever you're cooking, knowing they are free of pesticides and full of flavour. Lavender is a wonderful thing to grow too, serving a variety of purposes from smellable to edible. Just don't ever plant cucumbers near squash: the cross pollinated results produced two of the most bitter things I've ever tasted.
Thanks for the good wishes. I had a few herbs in pots last year -- as with produce, I have learned to plant what I'll use in quantity (rosemary, thyme, parsley, cilantro). But I do love lavender and would like to add it to the mix. No worries about cucumbers though -- we don't really eat them so we won't be growing them!