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Category Archives: Edible Perennial Gardening
Perennial Vegetable Podcast at The Guardian
Well, I never expected that my fascination with perennial vegetables would lead me to the London HQ of The Guardian (for overseas readers this is one of the UK’s leading newspapers). However, out of the blue came an invitation to … Continue reading
Harvests from the garden in 2015
I have just spent some time totting up the time spent in the garden last year and the yields: Harvests from the garden in 2015 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total % Onions 57 477 19 245 798 7 Cooking greens … Continue reading
Posted in Borderland Garden, Edible Perennial Gardening, forest garden development
Tagged harvests, yields
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Fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers – polycultures anew
I have been having such a lot of fun the last two weekends planting in the newly prepared areas. First to go in were the trees. I wanted to get additional fruit in the garden and chose seven fruit trees … Continue reading
Posted in Borderland Garden, Edible Perennial Gardening, Fruit, Fruit trees
Tagged amelanchier, Ashridge Trees, cherry, cherry plum, gage, ground breaking, mirabelle, nitrogen fixers, pear, polycultures, quince
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St David’s Day and making a start on the new plans for the garden
The Borderland Garden is exactly that – a garden on the borders between Wales and England. It is a very wobbly, wavy border, hard to spot on the map and even harder to interpret on the ground sometimes as only … Continue reading
The year’s work and produce in the Borderland Garden 2014
I am pleased with the results from the Borderland Garden for last year. Before I began to add up my figures I anticipated more time spent and less produce than there was. In a perennial vegetable garden the harvests tend … Continue reading
….. and the beginning of a new challenge
Over the years of experimenting with perennial vegetables I have been buying and also saving a lot of seeds. Of course I have planted a lot too, but I seem to have ended up with an amazing quantity. As we … Continue reading
End of an era
Next Friday we move out of this home. My partner has lived here for 32 years and I joined her fourteen years ago when the new millennium was a few months old. Needless to say we have a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Edible Perennial Gardening, Telford Garden
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Summer in the garden
After my post a few weeks ago about a lack of bees, there are more about in both gardens than there were. The Borderland garden is now absolutely buzzing with both bees and other insects. The Telford garden has less, but … Continue reading
Emma Lawrence – the best illustrator
While I was writing Edible Perennial Gardening I knew it needed some very clear illustrations to help make certain points. I was therefore incredibly fortunate to have a friend with an amazing talent for drawing who took my very rough … Continue reading
Of edges and hedges
Edges are recognised as important habitats within permaculture. This is because they represent a zone of change between two different habitats or environments and encapsulate some of the identity of each. They therefore have the potential to provide for a … Continue reading
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