My garden

My garden is 10 meters (32ft) wide and 20 meters (65 ft) long (200m2 / 2152sqft). It contains:

20 beds with seasonal vegetables and edible parenials
2 flower beds
2 herbal beds
1 seed perserving bed
edible green fence (in the making)

My garden lies in the frontyard of our house which is situated in the valley, between hills and a small creek.

The in-between-hills location is the reason that the summer sun shines in the garden until about 5pm. The proximity of the creek causes higher diurnal temperature variations.

Because of the garden’s location I had great results growing beans, root vegetables, onions, peppers and pumpkins. The biggest challenge are the tomatoes which I (as os this year) decided to grow in pots under the roof, next to the south house wall. 🙂

The garden lies Slovenia, Europe in USDA hardiness zone 7.

I like to experiment and use different gardening approaches on the garden. I especially like permaculture and also try to implement biodynamic methods in my gardening.

eco bio garden gardening how to start — My garden, July 2017.

LIST OF PLANTS FOR 2017

VEGETABLES

Garlic – spring variety
Onions
Shallot, yellow
Shallot, red
Carrot – Nantes
Carrot – Amsterdam
Carrot, yellow – Ljubljana variety
Parsnip
Leek – Elefant
Lacinato kale
Savoy cabbage – Savoy king
Cabbage – Nozomi
Brocoli – Parthenon
Cauliflower – Barcelona
Broad bean – Aguadulce
Beans – Berggold
Beans – different heritage varieties
Pea – Piccolo provanzale
Chickpea
Lettuce – oakleaf
Parennial wall rocket
Chard
Spinach – Matador
New Zealand Spinach
Strawberry spinach
Radish
Kohlrabi
Peppers – different heritage varieties
Celery
Celeriac
Tomato – different heritage varieties
Batata / swees potato
Peanuts

tomato pot grown eco bio homegrown basil — Tomato, grown in pots on the south house wall. Accompanied by “Dark opal” and Genovese basil.

FRUITS

Strawberry – Asia
Wild strawberry
Peruvian groundcherry
Raspberry
Currant, red
Currant, white
Huckleberry
Kamchatka honeysuckle
Lingonberry
Wine Raspberry
Fourberry
Goji berry – No. 1 lifeberry
Goji berry – sweet lifeberry
Gooseberry, red
Gooseberry, green
Pepino
Common plum
Pear
Apple
Loquat
Lemon

vegerable garden homgrown gardening blog — And from another perspective – my garden, July 2017.

herbs

Basil – Greek
Basil – Genovese
Basil – Dark opal
Coriander
English marigold
Thyme
Marjoram
Origano
Hyssopus
Milk thistle
Valerian
Common sage
Sage – pineapple
Common mint
Catnip
Lemon Beebrush
Lemongrass
Rosemary
Thymes
Purple coneflower
Chives
Milfoil
Lavender
Feverfew
Chamomile, german
Borage
Bay laurel
Tarragon, russian