She is a member of "The Diggers Club" which provides an enormous amount of information to help gardeners along the way. They say that ground the size of a car for each family member is sufficient to provide fresh vegetables for the whole year, and have seed packs available twice a year to do it their way, if one chooses to go that way. The subscription includes six issues of their journal per year, and they have 1500 items in their catalogue altogether. I am very keen to get their Australian garlic when it is available, as it is difficult to obtain.
They have been closed over Christmas - New Year and their new season starts online tomorrow, or I can see it in a magazine with seed offers coming out mid-January.... I'm excited!!
It was also exciting yesterday to see my first raspberries.... it is not common to grow berries in our warm area, and I am surprised the plant is not in worse condition. I also got had a handful of gooseberries. Unfortunately the rain is pelting down again today.
With Love and Blessings,
Jan
5 comments:
Wow! I'd never heard you can grow enough veggies for a whole year in a plot so small. My plot is very small and I'm still looking for a way to maximize it since it also has some trees on it and some nice things to look at and I don't want to lose those. I'll keep trying. Best of luck with the raspberries and other berries. They are delicious.
Gardening is a lot of work - but can be very therapeutic!! Love those raspberries! Had no idea that such a small plot as the size of a car, could yield so much! Now that we live in an apartment, I sure miss all the gardens I've ever had --- sometimes!! Enjoy yours!
I have been trying to grow some veggies for a few years. Each year we do better but still not as much as I would like. All this rain has rotted everything now. That magazine sounds good. hope you don't get floods down there too.
Those are beautiful raspberries! I hope our plants on the farm do ok. We had some deer come out this fall and eat most of the plants down to the ground.
Isn't that just the best name for a gardening club .... I love it! It is amazing what can be produced on small plots of land or even for that matter in containers on balconies. Happy for you Jan with regards to the raspberries .... they are quite abundant here and we love them. Happy gardening my friend!
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