As winter approaches it’s time to plan next year’s crops. I’m suggesting we ought re-consider altering the proportions of what we cultivate. You see there’sl ong been a tendency for vegetables to predominate, most are so much better home grown than purchased, we happily fill whatever-space-we-can with them.
Yet I reckon many of us may be better off if we, say, halved our vegetable area substituting soft fruit instead (red, white and black currants, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, possibly blueberries, brambleberries, even grapes.)
Let me explain why
Firstly, soft fruit is lower maintenance than vegetable growing. There’s no digging, sowing, watering, thinning and weeding regimes. Instead there’s light mulching, light pruning and light tidying, and not necessarily much else.
Secondly, fruits are so reliable, they just ‘work’, it’s what they want…
