We expanded the herb patch last year following a fragrant, fascinating, and rainy excursion to one of the Jekka’s Herb Farm open days. We returned from our trip, smelling strongly of every herb imaginable, with two huge, damp, paper bags full of baby plants. Salad burnet, caraway, chervil, lemon verbena, orange and lemon thymes, winter…
asparagus
The Asparagus Bed
One of the first things we did in the vegetable garden was plant an asparagus bed. It takes three to four years to harvest a crop from asparagus, as the plants need time to strengthen and develop, so we wanted to get started as soon as possible. We ordered fifteen crowns, made up of four…