After my last post about our new house, I thought I’d follow it up with a post about our garden. Going from a two bedroom flat, to a house, having a garden of our own is a novelty. We’ve been saying for years that we want to grow our own vegetables and actually spend time in the garden so we spent last weekend digging out some of the raised beds and a patch at the back of the garden for potatoes.

We’ve been inspired by Vegmonkey and the Mrs and their planting plan so we’ve decided to come up with our own planting plan and post it online. We’re currently using three raised beds, and one patch of dug garden (for potoates). Here’s how we’ve split things

We’ ve decided to plant the following (all from seed)

1. French Beans*
2. Oregon Sugar Pod
3. Pea Early Onward
4. Spinach*
5. Rocket*
6. Broccoli Autumn Spear
7. Cauliflower All The Year Round
8. Courgette*
9. Turnip Atlantic Speedy
10. Swede Ruby
11. Lettuce Lobjoits Green
12. Lettuce Little Gem
13. Radish Mixed
14. Squash F1 Butternut Barbara
15. Cabbage (Savoy) F1 Traviata
16. Parsnips*
17. Onion (Salad) North Holland Blood Red
    Onion (Salad) Shimonita
18. Carrot F1 Purple Haze
    Carrot F1 Maestro
19. Onions*

The items marked with a * are being donated from my colleague Sean Johnson

We’re also planning on growing some pumpkin (Pumpkin F1 Becky) in an old patch of ground at the bottom of the garden next to our potato bed. No doubt I’ll add some images when everything arrives and we get the first seedlings potted up