The wild garden diaries | easy lazy edibles
A tour of my easiest, laziest edible plants
This year, I will be sharing regular video diary entries from my garden. Little snippets to show you what I’m getting up to. These are only available to members of my Wild Garden club. If you’d like to join the club and access all the videos, grow guides and seasonal recipes I share, click the button below to upgrade your membership to Wild Garden Club member.
This week I am:
Harvesting zinnias!! I have FINALLY (finally!) grown zinnias after threatening to do so for four years, and now they are blooming and I’m giddy with joy! I’ve also been picking fresh basil and marjoram, snake beans and chillies and I’m hoping I can get to the big bunch of bananas hanging from our tree in the back garden before the rat does!
Cooking pesto pasta! Oh how I love pesto - one of my favourite foods of the summer. I like to serve it with a big salad of rocket, avocado, tomatoes and fresh figs. If you want to give my pesto a go you can find the recipe here.
Reading My Work, by Olga Ravn; a book about motherhood and writing and just in case you think this means I have finished the last book I told you I was reading: no, I have not. Not even close. I am neither that organised or that fast.
Sowing purple kohlrabi which I have never grown before! Have you? My seeds just germinated in a big clump because I scattered them very inexpertly heehee
Thinking about all the spring bulbs I plan to add to my garden this autumn, chief among them: Dutch irises and ixias. If you’d like to learn about adding bulbs to your garden you might like to check out this guide.
Welcome back to another tour of my garden! This time showing you a few of my favourite super low maintenance edible plants.
Edible gardening really doesn’t have to be high-effort or take hours out of every week, but so often people starting veggie patches will focus on only the most high maintenance and challenging edibles (tomatoes! broccoli! corn!).
I think we should do ourselves a favour - especially if we have a busy work-life or a young family - and start with edible plants that are long-lived and easy.
See the video below for some of my favourites.