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Tag Archives: Chinese artichoke
Using diverse crops to ensure a yield (2)
If my garden is not resilient it is nothing; and as the summer moves on this is becoming ever more apparent. The garden may be small, but for the area it occupies it is productive and I hope to improve … Continue reading
Making light work of it!
Around this time of year everything in the garden starts to grow so fast you can nearly watch it moving upwards. Everything green is surging towards the light and much of what grows fastest are things that gardeners traditionally do … Continue reading
Posted in Forest Gardening, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, roots and tubers, Telford Garden
Tagged asparagus, Babington leek, biodiversity, Chinese artichoke, field beans, jerusalem artichoke, leeks, making the most of the garden, nettle, nine star perennial broccoli, skirret, sweet cicely, three cornered leek, wild garlic, yam
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Collecting as much food as I can from the garden (3)
This is an update on how I am doing with my resolve to collect as much food from the garden as possible (see the previous two posts at https://annisveggies.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/collecting-as-much-food-as-i-can-from-the-garden/ and https://annisveggies.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/collecting-as-much-food-as-i-can-from-the-garden-2/). So far this year I have been able to … Continue reading
Cooking from the garden – roasted perennial (and other) root veggies
A large part of the value and purpose of my experiments with perennial vegetables is to make the most of my garden by producing food that is easy to grow, lasts year after year – and very importantly – tastes … Continue reading
Birdsong, January sunshine and bright green leaves
Well the sunshine may have been short lived (now turned to drizzle) but the birds are still in good voice outside. I have just spent a very enjoyable hour in the garden planting out Jerusalem artichokes and Chinese artichokes (no … Continue reading
We have had an unusually dry summer
This is the driest summer in these parts (Shropshire) for years and for the first time I have had to resort to watering the polyculture patches. Since I began growing perennial veggies they have only been watered to help young plants establish, after … Continue reading
Posted in Forest Gardening, perennial greens, Permaculture, Polycultures, roots and tubers
Tagged Chinese artichoke, jerusalem artichoke, kale, Oca, scorzonera
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Summer time………….
At this time of year annual vegetables are at their peak but the warm, dry weather does not suit some of the perennials so well. I have removed all the eggs I can see from the kales, (there have not been too … Continue reading
After six months of happy blogging……….
After six months of happy blogging what have I learned about my garden and blogging about it? Firstly it has been immensely gratifying that people actually visit the blog and read it, and even more so when they leave a … Continue reading
Things are going well ….
There’s nothing like the feeling of holding fresh picked garden produce and looking forward to not too far off moment when you can taste it. The other day I gathered a bunch of mixed greens comprising wild rocket, chives, Welsh onions, land … Continue reading
Growing polycultures
I grow in polycultures – which is essentially just mixing things up a bit. I use plants that introduce additional functions into the veggie patch – to accumulate minerals, fix nitrogen, attract insect life, confuse pests and to cover the … Continue reading
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