These are my onions, there seems to be lots of weird and wonderful things growing in between them, I'm going to go sort that out later on
and this is the garlic.
Patience is most certainly a virtue.
My first hurdle was to find a plot. Allotments in this area have a 10 year waiting list, and I'm not sure I could handle an allotment, all I need is a small area of which to have a play. After asking around the family I was offered a small peice of my uncle's garden, approximately 16.5' x 4.5', just perfect enough for me to manage. Next hurdle is to find out where on earth to start, how to prepare, what to grow and how to maintain, and of course with little or no expense, else it would defeat the object.
I hope to encourage my children and maybe their friends to get involved. On first mention they show absolutely no interest whatsoever, all the hard work and prepeartions will be done by me. I am curious to see whether as time goes on and things start to grow they will start to take an interest, here's hoping. If they don't help grow it then they won't help eat it ...
So here goes, the beginning of what will hopefully be a long term, easy to manage, beautifully tasty crop of food. It may be that everything gets eaten by slugs, it may be that there is not enough sunlight, the birds eat everything, or it may be that I end up with the most brilliant crop of foods, only time will tell.
I hope you enjoy the adventure as much as I do, and most of all I hope it might inspire you to have a go :o) (Or if it fails miserably it will make you feel better about not trying it)
1 comment:
I am so pleased you are getting back into your growing. Treat yourself to a gardening growing veggie book so that you can get some tips about when to do what. Can't wait to taste some of your French Onion Soup,MMMMMMMM
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