{"id":52496,"date":"2017-04-21T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-i-designed-and-built-my-edible-garden\/"},"modified":"2017-04-21T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T09:38:46","slug":"how-i-designed-and-built-my-edible-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-i-designed-and-built-my-edible-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"How I designed and built my edible garden"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFancy building the vegetable garden of your dreams from a weed-strewn wasteland? Lucy Chamberlain shares her sage advice For culinary gardeners, creating your own edible garden sets you on an almighty high. It can be daunting at first if you don\u2019t know exactly what you want, but for most of us that isn\u2019t an issue \u2013 we\u2019ve been planning it in our mind for years. You may be standing eye-high in couch grass, but if you just close your eyes, grand visions of raised planters and manger beds come meandering in. For our rural setting I\u2019d envisaged timber-edged beds, gravel paths, espaliered apples and regimental rows softened by cottage garden billowiness. In reality I was standing by an old brick wall barely visible under decades of vegetation. Above my head was a dense canopy of hazel and walnut, while beneath my feet lay a generous tangle of ivy, nettles and ground elder. We knew this 40 x 50ft plot was once a pristine vegetable garden. Now, 30 years later, nature had reclaimed the land \u2013 goodness knows when the sun\u2019s rays had last warmed the soil. One almighty hazel tree, alongside a walnut tree in the neighbour\u2019s plot, had given rise to the thicket of saplings. Despite not being able to see a square inch of bare earth we had hope \u2013 you must have hope. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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