I'm not kidding when I call myself a novice here, in fact if there is a word to describe someone with less experience than novice, then that's me. But I want to learn more and so why not bring you all along for the ride?
I started growing my own vegetables for the first time this year, with varying results. We had a wonderful spell of sunshine during June and July, which helped my fledgling patch enormously, and as the summer went on what had started out as a few green shoots in a garden bed turned into a jungle of vines and flowers and leaves. It was wonderful and fulfilling, but difficult at times, I knew nothing about soil types, compost or fertilisers, I simply bought a few bags of compost from Aldi and just sort of went with it to see what happened. Next year I'll know a little more.
However, while I was watering, pruning and creating supports for my vegetable patch, a whole pantry of goodies were growing right beside me, in the hedgerow, without either my help or my knowledge. Mother Nature was weaving her magic, doing all the work for me. For years I had been looking at all these berries growing in the hedgerow with no clue that they were edible, and had it not been for episode of River Cottage where Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall made some Rosehip Syrup - which sent me out into the garden to see could I find any Rosehips - I might never realised what was growing out there all along. Turns out all I had to do was pull on a pair of boots, and wander out to the garden with my secateurs, basket and perhaps a pair of gloves and pick and cut away. That is my sort of gardening!
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