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Garden journal – 6 October 2017

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

I did some ‘work’ in the garden today. Not counting minor interventions like taking off dock leaves and flowering stems it was the first time I had done anything since pruning the fruit trees and removing the flowering stems from … Continue reading →

Posted in forest garden development, Fruit, Polycultures, roots and tubers | Tagged apple, chives, garlic, grape hyacinth, honesty, lamb's lettuce, land cress, narcissi, Oca, tree onoins | 1 Comment

Review of spring polyculture patch

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Anni Kelsey

This bed was started in the spring of 2014. Originally I just needed somewhere to transplant a number of perennial vegetables from my first bed in this garden (below) which was about to be covered over with an extension to … Continue reading →

Posted in Borderland Garden, forest garden development, Fruit, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Polycultures | Tagged buckshorn plantain, good King Henry, kale, lamb's lettuce, land cress, leaf beet, Oca | 2 Comments

Delights in the Mid Winter Garden

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Anni Kelsey

I would contend that a garden of edible perennials must be one of the few to yield delights in the cold and often bleak mid winter months. I have left a number of root vegetables in the ground over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Forest Gardening, Hedgerow, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, roots and tubers, Telford Garden | Tagged jerusalem artichoke, lamb's lettuce, mashua, Oca, skirret, snowdrops, Yacon | Leave a comment

My book – Edible Perennial Gardening!

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Anni Kelsey

I have been researching and growing perennial veggies since 2005 and blogging about how I do this for a couple of years. My aim has always been to be able to find out as much as I could and then … Continue reading →

Posted in Forest Gardening, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, Relationship with nature, roots and tubers, Telford Garden | Tagged allium paradoxum, book, Edible Perennial Gardening, lamb's lettuce, Permaculture Magazine, Permanent Publications, scorzonera | 9 Comments

Winter Harvest

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Anni Kelsey

It is 28 January (2013) and there are still a few small fingers of ice on the lawn, the remnants of the frozen carpet that had been in place for nine days. The photo below was taken some time during … Continue reading →

Posted in Forest Gardening, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, roots and tubers, Telford Garden | Tagged bitter cress, jerusalem artichoke, lamb's lettuce, land cress, mashua, Oca, pea shoots | 4 Comments

Reviewing 2012

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Anni Kelsey

Yet again the weather over the past twelve months has been really challenging. 2011 was uncharacteristically dry and 2012 was unbelievably wet. It is therefore really gratifying that in the main my perennial veggies have grown well and yielded more … Continue reading →

Posted in Forest Gardening, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, roots and tubers, Telford Garden, Uncategorized | Tagged Babbington leek, dandelion heads, field beans, jerusalem artichoke, lamb's lettuce, mashua, nine star perennial broccoli, Oca, Perpetual Leek, perpetual spinach, purple sprouting broccoli, Sorrel, wild beet, Yacon | 10 Comments

Making more room to grow……..

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Anni Kelsey

I have long hankered after more growing space and was really pleased when in early spring my partner suggested that we move the decking and take up the remaining back lawn in order to create more veggie growing space. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, Telford Garden | Tagged beans, bees, bitter cress, claytonia, green manure, jerusalem artichoke, lamb's lettuce, mashua, Oca, perennial kale, phacelia, Yacon | Leave a comment

Collecting as much food as I can from the garden (3)

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Anni Kelsey

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 →

Posted in Forest Gardening, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, roots and tubers, Telford Garden | Tagged Babbington leek, Chinese artichoke, field beans, jerusalem artichoke, lamb's lettuce, nine star perennial broccoli, salad rocket, skirret, Sorrel, yam | 3 Comments

Birdsong, January sunshine and bright green leaves

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Anni Kelsey

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 →

Posted in Forest Gardening, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, roots and tubers, Telford Garden | Tagged Chinese artichoke, field beans, jerusalem artichoke, lamb's lettuce, nine star perennial broccoli, shallots, three cornered leek | 6 Comments

Collecting as much food as I can from the garden (2)

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Anni Kelsey

Since resolving to maximise the food output of the garden (within the limits of the space currently available) I have realised there are quite a few aspects to consider: I cannot expect all the food from the garden to look like it … Continue reading →

Posted in Forest Gardening, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, roots and tubers, Telford Garden | Tagged kale, lamb's lettuce, land cress, leaf beet, Oca, three cornered leek, wild rocket | 5 Comments