The garden · Three decades organic
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Behind the house: raised beds, a glasshouse, a quiet patio. We grow tomatoes for half the year and have done for thirty.
Beginnings
Two acres,
by Galway Bay,
long ago.
The garden began on a different patch - a two-acre stretch by the bay, where seaweed went into the soil and chemicals stayed out of it. Those habits travelled with us when we moved into the house. They’re visible behind it now: raised beds, a glasshouse warm in winter, and a patio for sitting still.
What we grow
A calendar of small harvests.
All year
Glasshouse tomatoes, basil, peppers
Spring → Summer
Lettuce, peas, mange tout, herbs
Autumn
Potatoes, cabbage
Winter
Garlic & onion bulbs, lavender for the patio
A closed loop
“Food waste feeds the digester, mixed with sawdust from the winter woodturning. The compost goes back into the beds, and so the year goes round.”