Tag Archives: Oca

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

Summer time ….

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Anni Kelsey

….. and despite the largely cool, cloudy and damp weather the garden is singing to me. We have eaten the offerings of the berry and currant bushes. The tree fruits are ripening on their as yet slender boughs. … Continue reading →

Posted in Borderland Garden, Fruit, Polycultures | Tagged apple, bees, butterflies, chokeberry, damson, gooseberries, mirabelle, Oca, tree onions, whitecurrant | 6 Comments

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

Patience

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Anni Kelsey

Over the years I have discovered that gardening with perennials is about playing the long game, looking to the future and being patient. You can’t have what you might want immediately, you may not be able to have it soon … Continue reading →

Posted in Borderland Garden, Edible Perennial Gardening, Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables | Tagged beans, mashua, mulch, Oca, sweet cicely, tree onion, ulluco | Leave a comment

Plan B

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Anni Kelsey

As every gardener knows things don’t always work out as we plan. Among the things I planned for this summer were: a selection of root vegetables from saved seeds scattered in one patch a selection of grains (quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat) … Continue reading →

Posted in Borderland Garden, Perennial Vegetables | Tagged armaranth, buckwheat, field beans, grains, jerusalem artichoke, Oca, perennial vegetables, quinoa, salsify, sunflowers, wild rocket, Yacon | 6 Comments

the garden going it alone …..

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Anni Kelsey

It has been a while since I posted regular updates on this blog – I have been poorly for some months, but am on the mend now. It has also meant that I have not been able to spend much … Continue reading →

Posted in Borderland Garden, Perennial Vegetables, Polycultures | Tagged chard, Daubentons Kale, jerusalem artichoke, land cress, mashua, Oca, root chicory, root parsley, skirret, wild rocket | 10 Comments

Summer in the garden

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Anni Kelsey

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 →

Posted in Borderland Garden, Edible Perennial Gardening, Perennial Vegetables, Polycultures | Tagged biodiversity, jerusalem artichoke, mashua, Oca, scorzonera, skirret, Welsh onion, wild rocket | 1 Comment

Plans and Priorities for 2014

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Anni Kelsey

My general aims for both gardens this year are: To increase the amount of produce from the perennial vegetables already under cultivation – essentially by having more plants. To extend the area under cultivation – in the Borderland garden. To … Continue reading →

Posted in Borderland Garden, Edible Perennial Gardening, Forest Gardening, Hedgerow, Perennial Vegetables, Polycultures, Telford Garden | Tagged flax, grains, Oca, sunflowers, Yacon | 14 Comments

Evaluating 2013 in the Telford garden

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Anni Kelsey

Our house in Telford went up for sale in the late spring of 2013. As yet it has not sold but the year began with the clear possibility in mind that we may not see the growing season out in … Continue reading →

Posted in Forest Gardening, Fruit, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables, Permaculture, Polycultures, roots and tubers, Telford Garden | Tagged jerusalem artichoke, mashua, Oca, yield | Leave a comment

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