Project Potager

As the winter snow melted and the sunny days became more and more common, our thoughts turned to Project Potager. Not one to do this in half measures, I wanted to plant a large garden that would keep the household supplied with fresh veggies and have plenty to spare for my canning, freezing, salting and dehydrating experiments. Not to mention being able to give some away to friends and family!



So with the longer days and the disappearance of all traces of ground snow, Project Potager seriously got underway in March. I decided to start as much indoors as possible. Partly because of the relatively short growing season and partly because I couldn't wait to get started and wanted to be eating my veg as soon as possible!!! While I sent my husband Barry out to break sod and do all the double digging duty I fiddled around with little seeds and makeshift greenhouses.


We had quite a job ahead of us seeing as our landlord used the site as a burn pile. Apart from MDF (plywood to the yanks), tree branches and stumps, sheets and plastic, we also had to contend with little bits of glass and metal that had all been thrown in.

But Barry is nothing but diligent and determined and he kept on digging through all my expansions so that the garden now encompassed several beds and was now more than twice the original planned size. And once he was done digging, he put up an electric fence to keep out all the deer and other wildlife that wanted a share of the bounty!
Next Episode: We get planting!