Bryan picked up a new book/magazine for me, the Maritime Gardening in the Northwest. It’s a great guide to gardening and has a good deal of focus on gardening in a yard – using cloches, sowing indoors or under covers and transferring seedlings to the outdoors, keeping your soil healthy. The book covers all these things (and more) in a way that I can find ways to apply what I want to do but in our small condo. A large focus is breaking up the book into chapters by months. Each month tells you what seeds to plant outside or inside, and other activities you could be doing to keep busy with your garden.
I have only read to March, because I want to not get distracted with reading too far ahead. I am trying to plan all that I can plant and nurture on our small patio landing.
draft of our patio garden
At first, my goal with this book is to plan our garden and have more to eat from it than last summer, when we had lettuce, strawberries, rosemary and basil. However, as I read more of this book, I am finding that I am starting to think if I could actually kind of have crops on our patio and exercise crop rotation. That might be taking it too far, might be too much to manage on a little patio.
After I figure out what we can start with in our small space, I’ll move on to figuring out if I can garden through the year with more than one set of veggies and fruit.
