2023 Planting Plan

New seeds for 2023

 If you haven't already planned your vegetable/fruit garden, then this is the best month to do it. Then take a look at your seed packets, and throw out the ones that are past their date. It is also a good time to buy fresh seed, because the seed companies have the fresh stuff in, but you can also get bargains, if you're on a budget, on seed that isn't as fresh, but you could still plant it this year. 

I have aready sorted my old seed out and have only bought what I needed to replace or I wanted new. I have 6 beds 5 m long and 1.5m wide, and that may seem like a lot of space, but if you love your brassicas, it's not. So I have had to choose which ones are really worth planting, what do I really like to eat. I have gone with spring and Autumn turnips, Broccoli, Swede, Savoy Cabbage and Brussel sprouts and Kohlrabi that is quick and can be harvested before everything else needs more space. So no red or white cabbage this year.

I have designated much more room to my leeks this year. In my opinion if you get the Autumn and winter variety, you'll be eating fresh Leeks for almost half a year. And you can freeze them if you have too many. But seriously, who can have too many leeks? lol

I have kicked the potatoes off my planting plan. If I should want to plant some, they are going in a bin. They need a whole bed and they are still pretty cheap to buy. Without a root cellar, the potatoes I can plant, don't even last me two months. Beans on the other hand are well worth the space.

I have also designated one major part of a bed, to all sorts of lettuce, summer and winter varieties. Like lambs lettuce Endive and Radicchio, as I always seem to plant lettuce as an after thought, but really do love fresh lettuce from the garden. Then when autumn/ early winter comes, I'm sad because I didn't plant anything or enough. 

But before I start anything in the garden, I need to deal with the neighbor's brambles, that have now reached tree size, and are blocking my light. I came across this super tool to tackle the roots. I'm not sure what this tool is called in English, so if anyone knows, let me know. Here it has a very strange name. They call it a Wiedehopfhaue, and sounds more Dutch than German. I don't know what it was originally made for, but it has a chopping blade and a shovel blade and it perfect for getting the the bramble roots out.