Fairy Cottage Garden Secrets

 

There is only one place to start. I believe that the basis of any Green Lifestyle has to revolve around at least producing some of your own food. The majority of people will not have access to enough land to produce all the food you need but even if you grow some of your own food it will make a difference to your health and your money

 

Fresh tasty food and more money in your pocket! plus it will also put back in touch with nature and do your spirit good. As you will see on this website, there is no excuse. You can grow vegetables in a container outside your back door or on your window sill. You can even sprout beans in a jar to eat!.

 

There are lots of so called “New”, “latest” and modern ideas out there about how to get the most vegetables out a small space and some of the advice can even be conflicting. If you have tried before and been discouraged, well it probably was not your fault.

 

Lost Knowledge

 

Without the full knowledge you will find here there was little chance of you been successful. Do not listen to “experts” that tell you it can not be done. There can be no better time to start growing your own, and start learning those skills that will enable you to feed yourself, as well as your family and friends.

 

What I would like to show you here on this website, is some of the best techniques that I personally have discovered and use. Many are little known secrets based on the older traditional methods practiced by early English cottage gardeners, and handed down through families in their personal writings, letters, recipe books and journals.

 

What crops grow best

 

Here you will find what crops grow best and most importantly the art of what proportion to grow the crops compared to others. This is with the aim that they not only provide the best nutrition for human diets but also sustain the planet and keep the soil fertile over the long term. By creating this type of healthy living soil, it will not only help you produce an abundance of crops now but far into the future.

 

Old techniques

 

Using these old techniques you can create a rich soil, balanced in nutrients. In return your gardens will produce healthy plants with minimal disease, less weeds and with less pressure on your crops by insects.

 

As you accomplish this, you will rediscover how the early cottage gardeners worked with the natural processes.

 

Cottage gardens

 

The term cottage gardens conjures up a vision of roses and honeysuckle climbing up old walls. Flagstone paths winding their way through colourful borders, comprising of all those old traditional flowers that we think of as typically English. In truth, the gardens were very often small, and every spare inch of available ground was used to feed the family. Most cottagers had little money, and even less spare time. That does not mean they were poor, for they were rich in other ways.

 

What we call cottage gardening now, is often a romanticized version of a gardening method that was born out of necessity and thrift. Wealthy people adopted the look and feel of a cottage garden, but without its secret traditions. Although nearly lost, these techniques have not all disappeared forever, thanks to a few well preserved, journals and diaries and cookbooks that have been passed down through generations.

 

Perhaps, It is now time again for people to get the most out of their ground. Surely, there will always be a need for people to have the added security of knowing they can produce their own food, and provide for their family.