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Diary of a Novice Gardener: Week 5

17/11/2014

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PictureJerusalem artichokes
By Anna Sayburn

Autumn is shading into winter and the gardens are beginning to look a little bare. The lettuce is over, the tomatoes are finished, the fruit trees have fruited and the herbs are dying down for the winter. What will we sell on the stall?

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Diary of a Novice Gardener: Week 3

10/10/2014

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By Anna Sayburn

Water, water, everywhere - but not a drop in the water butts. One thing I'm learning as a novice gardener is that a bit of rain doesn't mean you can get away without watering. Although we'd had a steady drizzle overnight and earlier that morning, the beds were dry, the lettuce limp and the newly-planted onions gasping. The water butt gave a pathetic dribble that half-filled my watering can, then gave up.

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Diary of a Novice Gardener: Week Two

10/9/2014

 

By Anna Sayburn

When I arrived at the Edible Garden on my second week, it was deserted. There had been heavy rain earlier that morning, so perhaps people had been put off by the weather. Undeterred and with new confidence in my weed-identifying abilities, I grabbed a trowel and got on with it.

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Diary of a novice gardener: Week 1

21/8/2014

 

By Anna Sayburn

'I'm afraid I don't know anything about gardening.' Despite my opening words, my arrival at the Edible Garden as a new volunteer was met with an enthusiastic welcome. Volunteer Hayley had a clutch of newbies to show around the garden and soon had us weeding and watering more or less the right things.

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