The estate agent asked: “What kind of house are you looking for? How many bedrooms?” I said: “What I need is about half an acre of garden, with enough space for a polytunnel and vegetable beds.”
So I’m moving home, leaving Somerset where I have grown in my garden and allotment for 20 years, and raised my family, for a new adventure in Wales. Of course, the house needs to have enough bedrooms, be secure and warm, and within my budget, but as many gardeners will agree, the most important consideration is the garden!
The cottage stands in about half an acre on a hillside overlooking the Teifivalley, high enough for far reaching views to distant mountain ranges, but not too elevated. There’s a back garden with sheds and a flattish lawn, a small side garden, a gravel front garden, and a good-sized sloping orchard with established fruit trees and space to erect a polytunnel. There are trees in the hedgerows and some flower and shrub borders, but much of the space is weedy grass, a blank canvas. Ael Y Bryn, ‘the brow of the hill’: we have found our new home.
PACKING UP!
It’s time to pack up the garden in Somerset.
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SEPTEMBER SPECIALS
This month, with sweetcorn, figs and blackberries on the menu, Anna Cairns Pettigrew is not only serving up something sweet and something savoury, but all things scrumptious
FLAVOURSOME FRUIT AUTUMN RASPBERRIES
September - is it late summer or the start of autumn? David Patch ponders the question and says whatever the season, it's time to harvest autumn raspberries
SOW GREEN THIS AUTUMN
Covering the soil with a green manure in winter offers many benefits and this is a good time to sow hardy types, says KG editor Steve Ott
A HISTORICAL HAVEN OF FRUIT AND FLOWERS
KG's Martin Fish takes time out from his own plot to visit a walled garden in Lincolnshire which has been home to the same family for more than 400 years
RESTORING THE BALANCE
The phrase regenerative gardening is often heard in gardening circles, but what is it? Can it help you to grow better veg? Ecologist Becky Searle thinks so, and tells us why
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
Garden Organic's Anton Rosenfeld shares his expertise on using compost made from green bin collections with handy tips on getting the right consistency and quality
Celebrating Organic September!
In this special section we bring you four great features aimed at improving your crops and allowing nature to thrive
SEEING RED
Do your tomatoes have a habit of remaining stubbornly green? Or perhaps you're lucky to enjoy lots of lovely fruits - just all at once. Either way, Benedict Vanheems is here with some top tips to ripen and process the nation's favourite summer staple
NEW KIDS ON THE BROCCOLI!
Rob Smith is talking broccoli this month with a review of the different types available and suggestions for some exciting new varieties to try
A NEW kitchen garden
Martin Fish is getting down to plenty of picking and planting on the garden veg plot, while Jill is rustling up something pepper-licking good!
