My Small Garden

 For several reasons, my gardens are limited

in size but that does not mean I cannot go large. The beginnings.

My Small Garden 2019

Grex beans, mammoth sunflowers and glass gem corn.

Glass Gem Corn

While the cobs are smaller than I would have liked, I plant to grow again, next year, probably only three plants along with grex beans, not pumpkins though.

My Small Garden

When it comes to gardening size does not matter. It is possible to create a wildlife, pollinator-friendly garden in a small space. I have. My small garden began this year. In it I grew grex beans, glass gem corn, black-eyed Susans, stevia, sunflowers and have just planted columbine,  This space is an oval and while I plan on a slight increase in size next year, my interest is in exploring what can be done within a small space. 

Photos: Small Garden

Next post in 3 days, climate change and soil

Gardening and Climate Change !

The glass gem corn I grew, there are six plants in the small garden, along with white pumpkins and sunflowers, grex beans and black-eyed Susans, is part of a project to create plants that have the resilience to withstand a changing weather system.

I have never grown corn before and when I read about the glass gem corn and how it came into being, I was encouraged to learn more about plant breeding and seed saving. 

The course I took, more about this in a future post, introduced me to glass gem corn and some great seed people and the books they produced based upon their experiences.

This blog was created to share the knowledge and its sources that I have uncovered over the years since I took my Permaculture Design Certificate in 1999.

I will also be sharing my own gardening experiences with photos as often as possible.

In my next post, I will discuss my plant breeding strategy,

Glass Gem Corn

This is the first cob from my planting of Glass Gem corn. I will post more information about this and my garden later today.

While not perfect, this is the first corn I have grown.