The Cottage Garden Almanac
A month-by-month companion for the kitchen garden
Everything I have learned in a lifetime of tending my cottage garden — what to sow, tend and gather, month by gentle month.
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A Word Before We Begin
This little book was never meant to be written — it grew, as gardens do, slowly and without fuss, from decades of muddy hands and quiet mornings and the peculiar joy of finding the first snowdrop nose-deep in February frost. I offer it to you not as an authority, but as a companion; an old woman's honest account of what the kitchen garden has taught her, season by patient season, year by unhurried year. May it find you well, and may your boots always be close to hand.
— Agnes
"A garden gives back tenfold the love you sow into it."
My garden has fed us, healed us and gladdened us for over fifty years. It began as a scrap of tired ground and became, with patience, the beating heart of the cottage. I do not garden by clever charts or Latin names — I garden by the seasons, by the feel of the soil, by what my mother taught me. In this almanac I have set down the whole turning year: when to sow the beans, when to lift the potatoes, when to let a bed rest. Whether you have acres or a windowsill, a garden will teach you the same quiet lesson — that good things come to those who tend them.
A companion for a gentler home
- A month-by-month sowing and harvesting calendar
- Companion planting and old cottage-garden wisdom
- Growing herbs, vegetables, fruit and cut flowers
- Working gently with the soil and the seasons
- The 116-page illustrated Garden Almanac (PDF)
- A printable year-round sowing calendar
- Companion planting quick-reference cards
- A garden journal to record your own year
Inside these pages
- 01A Gardener's Welcome
- 02The Sleeping Garden: Winter
- 03First Sowings: Spring
- 04The Growing Months: Summer
- 05The Great Harvest: Autumn
- 06Herbs & Cut Flowers
- 07Soil, Compost & Rest
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