{"id":5098,"date":"2015-04-02T07:07:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T05:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.growntocook.com\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T09:06:57","slug":"edible-garden-in-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growntocook.com\/?p=5098","title":{"rendered":"Edible garden in March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"allotment<\/p>\n

People, if this is spring, I want a refund! What a difference from last year<\/a>.
\nThere was a hail storm yesterday (actually several) and the ornamental plums on the other side of the street which are my barometer of spring are still at least a week away from being in full bloom. (Last year they flowered mid March).<\/p>\n

\"hail\"<\/p>\n

Workwise this month has been pretty crazy, too. I have never before taught so many gardening courses within a month. The top photo is from a permaculture gardening course for kindergarten teachers I taught in the Czech Republic. The one below that is from an Edible Forest Gardening course I taught two weeks ago. Remco snapped a picture from our bedroom window when I was explaining why it is a good idea to plant a grapevine next to a south-facing wall.
\nI have also written four articles on different edible garden topics.<\/p>\n

\"permaculture<\/p>\n

\"edible<\/p>\n

Luckily the day we were shooting in the garden for a 2016 vegetable garden series for a Dutch magazine, it was sunny and warm enough to take off the winter jacket (it did not last though). In a spring like this, some kind of protection in the vegetable garden is a huge bonus. I sowed my polyculture mix (leaf mustard, lettuces, carrots, beets, spring onions and more) under the row cover, as well as several rows of radishes.<\/p>\n

\"Allotment\"lettuce<\/p>\n

We sifted the compost from the old compost heap and spread it over the beds. That\u2019s how easy it is to make a seed bed when you\u2019re not digging.<\/p>\n

\"spreading
\nThe broad beans I sowed in November<\/a> (Aquadulce Claudia<\/em>) are looking good and healthy, despite the cold, and will hopefully give us some early harvests.<\/p>\n

\"broad
\nI have covered a big rhubarb plant with a black bucket to get some early blanched stems and am also trying to blanch a radicchio plant under a terracotta pot.<\/p>\n

But most of the gardening is done on the window sill. Here are some of my tomato plants. The number of varieties I grow actually gets smaller every year, since so few varieties can handle our climate successfully. This year I sowed: \u201cLosetto<\/strong>\u201d (bush variety with cherry sized fruits and good blight tolerance), \u201cFerline<\/strong>\u201d (indeterminate and also blight tolerant with larger fruits) and \u201cMatt\u2019s Wild Cherry<\/strong>\u201d (tall and unruly with small red fruits, but the healthiest of them all).<\/p>\n

\"tomato<\/p>\n

In our edible forest garden, we are getting some good pickings from the perennial vegetables, most notably from our dependable Perennial kale. Since this kale does not form seeds I usually take a few cuttings every spring.<\/p>\n

\"perennial<\/p>\n

The spring bulbs are a joy and this is what my \u201cspring bulb lasagne\u201d looks like at the moment. It seems that with the varieties I have chosen this time, there will be more overlap in bloom. The crocuses are not finished yet, but the daffodils are already about to open.<\/p>\n

\"spring<\/p>\n

How is your spring going?<\/p>\n

If you want to read more: here is what our edible garden looked like in March 2014<\/a>..
\nAnd here are some garden jobs to get on with in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People, if this is spring, I want a refund! What a difference from last year. There was a hail storm yesterday (actually several) and the ornamental plums on the other side of the street which are my barometer of spring…<\/p>\n

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