Project 81: 1 – Starting

A failure to plan, is planning for failure

I’ve been gardening for two years. I’ve also been making mistakes for two years and I’m slowly fixing them. I started out with the decorative garden. Then fruit trees were added and they do well with little interference from me. The herb border which was added this year was started with twenty £1 pound potted herbs from Facebook Marketplace. All are doing well and other than a little light watering they are on their way.

But now it’s time to think about the edible garden.

I started trying to find a planning app to help and in the end I settled on Grow Veg. It’s a good desk-top based program which has a lot of features but they are usable and intuitive. The introductory video shows you how to plan a garden. The plant list and plant families help you plan future gardens. You can tell it which plants are in the ground now.

It also allows you to publish your garden online so you can share it. Mine is here.