Jan 9th, 2006
Master Plans
Masterplan 2008
Okay - I cheated this year and got someone else to draw my Masterplan - but ain’t it pretty? mtp has been moved to our new back garden and now features a raft of fruit, including two Apple trees, two Pear trees, a Peach tree, two Blueberry bushes and the odd Tayberry. There’s also a new potting shed, a fancy bench and maybe… just maybe… a water feature thingy.
Masterplan 2007
The 2007 Masterplan is here - featuring a new pumpkin bed, cutting garden, and there’s even room for some mini sweetcorn. You can tell how bored I’ve been over the winter months. Well if you can’t grow vegetables why not draw them?
See a larger version of the 2007 masterplan.
Masterplan 2006
For a larger version go here
This year mtp has doubled in size. The left-hand side was left to it’s own devices last year and ran wild with raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants. This year things are different. The bushes and canes are set to be trimmed and the land in-between the fruit will be cultivated and devoid of weeds. Here I plan to cultivate some of the larger crops such as main crop potatoes, sweetcorn, pumpkins, squash, and maybe even some melon (who knows?).
While the right hand side of mtp will concentrate on the smaller and more delicate vegetables, lettuce, spring onions, shallots, garlic, courgettes, french beans, carrotts and cucumber and tomatoes.
Of course by mid Spring all this will have been thrown out in favour of a more hap-hazard, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach as nature intended!
Masterplan 2005
For a larger version go here
mtp’s very first year! It was only half the size it is now. As it was very overgrown, I only had time to cultivate half of it before the growing season began. However, we still managed to get in a bumper crop, with a little of everything we like to eat. The only things missing are some of the vegetables that take up lots of room (like pumpkins and runner beans) as we just didn’t have space. They make their entrance next year when the full plot is cultivated.
