Organic Gardening Never Changes
Gardening in the ‘Good Old Days’.
I have just been reading about gardeners in the 18th and 19th centuries, and I have been quite amazed at the similarity of the problems that gardener’s face today.
Organic gardening was alive and well in those days, as I outline in my soon to be released ebook “How To Master Organic Gardening.”
Although, I think,the double purpose of a garden has been forgotten in landscape gardening. It seems that we now have a useful kitchen garden, but they can be quite ugly, or a flower garden that is not useful, but has flowers to redeem its purpose
The charm of a garden, as it used to be, was in marrying the two together.
In an English garden of old, vegetables and flowers were grown together, as the household had only a small plot of land, and they had to support themselves with food as well as providing flowers for the table. Carrots, celery, and other root crops would reside quite happily with delphiniums, foxgloves and other flowering plants.
In my own garden, I like to go my own wild way and do things wrong, and then find out by myself the mistakes I may have made.
I do recommend, if you have space, to have an experimental garden. Here you can try all sorts of new things before they go into your flower beds. It allows you the luxury of trial and error, without the stress of trying to place new plants in an already established area.
It is also a good plan, when a plant fails in one area of your garden, to try it in another area, and if it does not do well when relocated, then discard it. There are plenty more to try!
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