Kitchen Garden Journal - Index

 

In 2008 we began trying to re-establish a kitchen garden on a farm in West Oxfordshire and this garden diary covers some of the work we did.

 

Real life interrupted things (as so often happens) as Miranda started a blog on the Royal Horticultural Society website at the same time as beginning to try and set up a small gardening business. Trying to set up a business is a slow and time consuming matter, and time for projects suddenly became very tight and we had to scale back our plans for content here on wildchicken.

 

The garden diary is here as an archive, and you can see a list of Miranda's wildlife garden blogs here. Her blog on the RHS can be found in the wild about gardening section - you can see a list of the posts here and here.

 

The gardening journal from 2005 - 2008 is here and the kitchen garden journal archive is below on this page.

 

July 2014 is the start of a new phase of blogging here on the wildchicken website as we begin to rationalise and reorganise all the content from the last 10 years.


 

Garden Plant Information - Alphabetical list

 

Botanical word list

 

Date

Journal entries

2012

Over the last 2 years Miranda has been working on establishing a small gardening business in Oxfordshire and that has taken up nearly all her time.

 

She has plans for more writing here on wildchicken, but at the moment, you can follow her writing on The Royal Horticultural Society website in the wild about gardens section

 

See a list of Miranda's RHS blogs

 

March 2010

 

Time to get going

 

November 2009

 

After the Storm

 

October 2009

 

The courtyard kitchen garden

 

Distorted chillies, the impending Oca harvest, celeriac and fungi

 

September 2009

 

Crown Prince Squash and some Marrows

 

August 2009

 

 

Preserving the Harvest

 

The Dreaded Potato and Tomato Blight

 

 

July 2009

 

More courgettes and other Vegetables

 

June 2009

 

Onion and Garlic Harvest and some Scary Courgettes

 

May 2009

 

Brassica Cages

 

April 2009

 

A Frenzy of Planting and Sowing

 

March 2009

 

 

Soil and a Wheelbarrow

 

Hedge Laying

 

 

February 2009

 

 

Odd Jobs in the Garden

 

Digging new Vegetable Beds

 

 

January 2009

 

Winter in the Kitchen Garden - Too Cold and Wet

 

December 2008

 

Planting Onions and Garlic

 

November 2008

 

 

Discovering what you Find in Thatch - A Sad Story

 

Preparing Beds for Winter

 

 

October 2008

 

 

Starting Work on the New Kitchen Garden - Part 2

 

Starting Work on the New Kitchen Garden - Part 1

 

 

September 2008

 

Finding the kitchen garden

 

August 2008

 

Scythes for the kitchen garden

 

Old journals (before February 2008)

 

Garden Article List

 

Garden Plant Information - Alphabetical list

 

Professional Gardening Services

 

 

 

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Published: 30-08-2008

Updated:   01-07-2014