- Today with friends who live in Plumstead. In the afternoon went to Lesnes Abbey Woods for a walk with their two dogs. Wild daffodils and wood anemones out.
- Cycle ride Good Friday and yesterday along the old River Lea south of Leabridge Road alongside the Hackney Marsh football fields. Water high and flowing strongly. Gravel island just below outflow of flood relief tunnel small on Friday and completely submerged yesterday.
- Started moving pots away from conservatory yesterday but was interrupted by rain.
- Have ordered drawf mulberry (small enough for a pot and fruits first year) from The Organic Gardening catalogue.
- Also ordered 3 tomato plants where the fruit will dry on the plan and can be stored in jars of olive oil. Have always fancied drying tomatoes but, without an aga, that means hours in the oven, albeit on a low heat.
- Got the May edition of Country Living magazine which had a supplement "Big ideas for small gardens". The gardens featured in the magazine are always huge so no inspiration for me and my small garden at all. So I was very pleased until I opened up the booklet to find a picture of a large garden! I've emailed to complain, carefully being polite!
- Got an organic lettuce in Tesco's yesterday. Took it out of plastic wrapper to find a load of greenfly!
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
small gardens
Back to my usual gripe about writers and broadcasters on gardening not understanding about small gardens.
In the Permaculture magazine which arrived yesterday there is an article on "How Britain can feed itself".
It says the "average" size of a British garden is 190m2 (2000ft2). Leaving aside the possibility that large gardens of several acres haven't scewed* the figures, what a mean average usually shows it the half-way mark - so probably about half of British gardens are smaller than this.
My garden of 1080ft2 is just over half this "average" size and most people I know living nearby have gardens of under half the size of my garden.
And of course, the problem with small urban gardens is that only a small proportion of them get enough sun to grow food!
*I've just tried to look up this word to check the spelling, but can't find it so have obviously spelt it completely wrong. I also used the word in my letter (on similar lines to this post) to the magazine. Oh dear!
In the Permaculture magazine which arrived yesterday there is an article on "How Britain can feed itself".
It says the "average" size of a British garden is 190m2 (2000ft2). Leaving aside the possibility that large gardens of several acres haven't scewed* the figures, what a mean average usually shows it the half-way mark - so probably about half of British gardens are smaller than this.
My garden of 1080ft2 is just over half this "average" size and most people I know living nearby have gardens of under half the size of my garden.
And of course, the problem with small urban gardens is that only a small proportion of them get enough sun to grow food!
*I've just tried to look up this word to check the spelling, but can't find it so have obviously spelt it completely wrong. I also used the word in my letter (on similar lines to this post) to the magazine. Oh dear!
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