Planting a Perennial Veggie Plot Makes Sense
As spring arrives people are getting out there and making the garden ready for planting this years vegetables, it’s something that happens the world over.
At Knowle Cottage, we had two veggie plots, one which we managed traditionally and the other that other than keeping weed free and thinning as needed was pretty much left to its own devices.
This plot was edged by herbs in big pots with broken crock at the bottom to stop them over-spreading. Sage, varieties of mint, varieties of thyme and many others will grow happily for several years if kept weed free and trimmed back in the autumn.
Other vegetables will harvest for years with a similar low level of attention.
Some varieties of onion come again and again, as do chives and garlic chives. Horseradish, mushrooms, artichokes and asparagus are all multi-year croppers and rhubarb is reliable for making sweets and deserts and jam.
Leave a few carrots in the ground and the seeds will drop and produce carrots the following year. Small cherry tomatoes will also re-seed readily just from shoving one in a pot, not truly year on year but very simple to do in just a few seconds.
As you get older gardening gets harder and Edith and I love that we can still pick produce even though we put little effort in these days. We don’t have artichokes, not something we like that much to be honest, but there’s nothing like a nice rhubarb pie after lunch and fresh horseradish sauce with a decent cut of beef.
Regards
Maud
Granny Spear was born in a small cottage in Devon, Southern England in 1925. Married to farm labourer Ernest, she raised her family in the heart of the countryside without any of the amenities we rely on today. Using skills passed down from her mother, who had learned those same skills from her mother, she not only survived but positively thrived living a self-sufficient, off grid lifestyle. Outliving her husband, one of her children and two of her grandchildren she stayed in the cottage until 2003 when a serious fall saw her hospitalized. She now lives with her daughter just four miles from her old home. For her 89th birthday her grandchildren and great grandchildren brought her an iPad, which she instantly rejected until they showed her Angry Birds…After much persuasion she has agreed to share some of her knowledge with us about what she calls the ‘old days’
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