Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
New veg bed and John Seymour
The new veg bed is well and truly up and running now.
I've planted loads in there: courgettes, summer squash, sweetcorn, runner beans, dwarf french beans, lettuce, coriander, parsley, spinach, radish, beetroot...
Now the weather has finally warmed up a bit, I'm hoping it will all germinate and catch up. I had already sowed seeds in the greenhouse, but it's been so cold this Spring that everything was very slow - most of them barely germinated. Anyway, hopefully now off to a better start.
We've had some good news about our allotment: the new owners are considering leasing the plot to us so that we can use it as an allotment again. We would be over the moon if they gave it back (I posted some time ago that our allotment was taken away from us at the end of last year - 3 years of digging and planting all rooted up and destroyed. We were heartbroken) I'll post more on this when we've had some more definite news, but for the time being it's looking promising.
I've also been working through my distance learning course on Organic Gardening - it's really good so far and I'm really enjoying it. It has re-kindled my love of the John Seymour books and now I am considering buying the new edition of "The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency" (published in 2009). I am very familiar with the old edition, and not sure how much has been updated in the new edition. If anyone out there has any idea, please let me know...
Happy gardening in the sunshine everyone!
Now the weather has finally warmed up a bit, I'm hoping it will all germinate and catch up. I had already sowed seeds in the greenhouse, but it's been so cold this Spring that everything was very slow - most of them barely germinated. Anyway, hopefully now off to a better start.
We've had some good news about our allotment: the new owners are considering leasing the plot to us so that we can use it as an allotment again. We would be over the moon if they gave it back (I posted some time ago that our allotment was taken away from us at the end of last year - 3 years of digging and planting all rooted up and destroyed. We were heartbroken) I'll post more on this when we've had some more definite news, but for the time being it's looking promising.
I've also been working through my distance learning course on Organic Gardening - it's really good so far and I'm really enjoying it. It has re-kindled my love of the John Seymour books and now I am considering buying the new edition of "The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency" (published in 2009). I am very familiar with the old edition, and not sure how much has been updated in the new edition. If anyone out there has any idea, please let me know...
Happy gardening in the sunshine everyone!
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Organic distance learning course
OK, so the big veg bed is now dug! It took ages to double dig the whole thing and then top it up with soil from another part of the garden, but it was worth it. I now have a great space to plant veg in. The soil isn't great, but I'm hoping to improve it in time by adding lots of organic matter to it.
Talking about organic matter, I've just enrolled on a course by Learning Curve called "Organic Gardening" and I have just received the course documents. There is no qualification at the end, just a Learning Curve certificate, but I just want the knowledge rather any qualification. The course book is written by Monty Don so bound to be good. In all honesty, the course I really want to do is the RHS level 2 and 3 (also provided by Learning Curve) but I'm doing this Organic one first to ease myself into this type of learning and to test whether I really have the time and determination to take on the RHS courses.
By the way, Learning Curve do lots of really interesting courses: Wildlife Gardening, Horticultural Therapy and Heritage Horticulture to name a few. Check out their website for more details: http://www.learning-curve.org/
Talking about organic matter, I've just enrolled on a course by Learning Curve called "Organic Gardening" and I have just received the course documents. There is no qualification at the end, just a Learning Curve certificate, but I just want the knowledge rather any qualification. The course book is written by Monty Don so bound to be good. In all honesty, the course I really want to do is the RHS level 2 and 3 (also provided by Learning Curve) but I'm doing this Organic one first to ease myself into this type of learning and to test whether I really have the time and determination to take on the RHS courses.
By the way, Learning Curve do lots of really interesting courses: Wildlife Gardening, Horticultural Therapy and Heritage Horticulture to name a few. Check out their website for more details: http://www.learning-curve.org/
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
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