For people who want to grow more food with less work. đ± This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribersâhere's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."
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If you've been on my email list for a while, you know that I'm alllll about lazy gardening. (I even created a whole course around it calledâyou guessed itâLazy Gardening Academy.) And it's not because I'm inherently lazy. I just prefer to work smarter, not harder, to maximize rewards. And one of the best and easiest ways to do so in the garden is by planting lots of perennialsâplants that can be planted once, and then enjoyed year after year. I have a couple of perennial vegetable beds in my garden that overwinter beautifully and spring back to life without me even lifting a finger, filled with perennials like sea kale, oyster leaf, common sorrel, True French sorrel, red-veined sorrel, Egyptian walking onions, rhubarb, Jerusalem artichokes, and asparagus. I have dozens of perennial strawberry plants, plus many more fruit trees and fruit shrubs. Then I have a huge perennial herb bed brimming with oregano, sage, thyme, rosemary, onion chives, garlic chives, tarragon, mint (six different kinds!) and more. I especially love growing perennial herbs because they are much less expensive to grow than they are to buy (if you've ever paid for a few sprigs of tarragon in a tiny clamshell case, you know what I mean). And they come back every single year with just a layer of straw mulch over winter. In fact, they're some of the first plants to come back in spring! If you want to make less work for yourself in the garden while harvesting more food, look into perennial herbs. Seasonal TipsP.S. Want to harvest more food while making less work for yourself? Try growing these 29 perennial herbs in the garden.â P.P.S. Keep track of all your herbs and when they come back, die back, or are ready to be divided and transplanted with my Ultimate Garden Diary. |
Garden Betty
For people who want to grow more food with less work. đ± This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribersâhere's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."