2016 Garden Plan
21.08.2023 - 11:53
/ theunconventionalgardener.com
/ Emma Doughty
Ever since we started building this new garden, I have been pondering what I would grow in 2016 – it’s first season as a complete (I hope!) garden. It has been hard to decide. During my garden-free years I built up a long list of things I really wanted to grow, but couldn’t. I can’t grow them all at the same time, so which ones to choose? And, to be honest, my gardening mojo has yet to fully return. I’m not feeling the same pre-season excitement as I used to. So whilst I have had some ideas about what I might grow this year, I’d been avoiding putting them down on paper and finalising a garden plan.
However, it is coming to the point in the year when it’s important to have some idea of what I’m going to grow, and where it’s going to grow, which avoids a situation I have been in at various times in the past – too many plants and not enough space. So I have put together a garden plan for 2016, with the proviso that I can always change it later if I want to (on a one plant in, one plant out kind of basis). The process started with the Sunset Strip:
We ignored it last year whilst we were building the main garden, and this year I’m turning it into a mini allotment where four raised beds will be home to blight-resistant Sárpo potatoes, Georgia Candy Roaster squash and a shark’s fin melon. The beds will be filled between March/April and September/October. I haven’t decided what to do with them then – winter crops, green manures, winter flowers, leave them fallow with a good, thick mulch? We’ll see.
On the ‘finished’ side of the garden, in front of my lavender potting shed, are six raised beds that are already planted. The first row of three is home to perennial plants – a long term planting, that row will largely take care of
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