The New Found Potager

By Jordan Baker -

 

Happy Tuesday  Everyone and welcome to my garden. 


Today I wanted to create a post for you to share one of the little luxuries in life that I now enjoy the most, my garden! If you'd have told me a year ago that I would have been writing that I probably would have never believed you and maybe laughed a little. I have always been the kind of person in previous years to say "stick some faux grass down and keep the garden paved and plain, the less fuss the better". 

That however was in my old house where my garden was the size on a postage stamp and I felt really uninspired. If I am being truly honest and reflecting inwards the garden space in my old house could have been really beautiful and I could have created one of those awe inspiring tiny gardens but that was a house I had from a past relationship that I was desperately trying to leave and I invested very little time and energy into it as it was a place I was desperate to escape and so I treated it as such, poor little house, I hope its new owners are giving the garden a little more TLC than the blank canvas I left it in. 

In my new house I have a huge by comparison garden and not in the braggy sense but more just being very honest and when I first moved in I found it quite overwhelming seeing as I had never had to factor gardening time into my daily family and work routine and I now have a small orchard (joking or am I). We quickly realised however when moving in that we needed to prioritise our garden and turning it into a small daily escape for me. This realisation came after finding out that working from home would be permanent for me, which don't get me wrong I love but I am have a highly stressful at times job and sometimes need to step outside and stepping into weeds and an overgrown lawn doesn't flood you with feelings of calm, it just makes you feel like you have another job to do. 

Luckily I have the world's most supportive partner, who just happens to be an amazingly skilled carpenter, who has transformed most of our outside space and is still transforming the rest of it into a space that can be enjoyed at any time in many ways. My daughter has also played a huge part in our garden transformation as her focus last term at school was on "growing things". It turns out she had more faith in me than I have in myself and when she came home she proceeded to announce about 100 different fruits and vegetables that she would like me to help her grow from seed. I will let you in on a little secret now, even though I will be doing an entire kitchen garden post, she planted the seeds under my supervision and then promptly buggered off and now only comes back fleetingly to check I am looking after them or with statements such as "see mummy I told you they were easy to grow" little does she know the amount of sweat and literal tears that have gone into her (my) veg garden. The tears where when I knocked an entire shelf of seedlings on the floor and they died and I realised I had to start again and also once I'd started again and planted them on just for the slugs to come and eat them. 

Anyway I have digressed a little but what I am trying to say in short is welcome to my garden, you will be seeing a lot more of it in posts going forward, where I will be sharing the reasons I find it so therapeutic and I will be keeping you up to date with what I have loved to create and posts about my beautiful plants. 


I hope you have a wonderful day and happy gardening. 


Jordan
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