First vegetable garden
My wife loves to work in the garden. It is small but green also in the winter and a lot of
birds are seen all over the year. We eat biological if our budget is sufficient. On Sunday
we visit in our park a children’s farm with next to it a roses- and herb garden. We enjoy
the silence as we sit in the middle of the city after a week of hard working.
There it crossed our minds to create an edible garden and if there are ways that it is not
to laborious. How could I think there wasn´t. Two boys wrote a book: ‘An easy vegetable
garden.’ They advertise that it costs only 5 minutes a day of energy. After delivering the
book and products, we are experimenting and so far it is only 5 minutes or less every day.
It is a movable garden on legs with 2 x 4 squares of 30 x 30 cm. I started in late spring
and have sowed different sorts of salads, chives & spinach. The ground is a mixture of
compost, peat dust and vermiculite. The intention is to sew the next vegetable when you
have harvested the previous. Every day watching in the morning and give them water.
The ground stays airy, so when I give water it doesn’t stay on top of it. Now the season
ends I can say it is a fine experiment and the vegetables taste good and fresh.
My conclusion so far is that 8 boxes is insufficient for a year for two persons. My wife
has planted tomatoes, grapes and cucumber and even strawberries. For this experiment
it is enough and we will go on.