Every time I start to teach a new organic gardening course someone will ask me whether there is any way to go organic without a lot of extra work. it makes me really happy when they come back to me, sometimes years later, to say I was right when I said that organic is the easy way to garden.
It is the cheap way too - after all you aren't spending lots of unnecessary money on chemicals.
And it just so happens that November is a really good time start gardening. After all, you have all winter to plan and to get any structures you want in place before spring comes bursting into life.
As all my friends know, my garden has got badly neglected in recent years. I'm a full time volunteer at Sonairte, where we teach children and adults about the environment that surrounds us, about the life of our planet and, of course, how to be an organic gardener. It hasn't been leaving a lot of time for my own gardening so the garden is full of brambles, bindweed, scutch and all the other problems that beginner gardeners need to deal with. This blog is a way of encouraging myself to get on with it.
It will also record the way we use the food we grow, sustainable ways to do as little housework as possible, and the fun we have using crafts that were part of our grandparents' way of life around our home and garden. Because we are very, very busy people there will be long gaps between entries but I hope that something useful will gradually emerge - and it may even get some catch-up done around the garden and house.
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