Just three weeks ago, my rooftop garden on narrow boat Miracle was starting to look like a winner. The garden I’d planned and planted was just beginning to show its potential and I was pleased. In a proud moment on that sunny Saturday I snapped a photo and shared it with the world via my Twitter accounts.
Nearly immediately after sending my “Boast Post” I saw a competition was happening online by Saltyard Books asking people to post photos of their kitchen garden. The competition was in celebration of a new book by Mark Diacono of Otter Farm, about gardening and getting the most out of your urban kitchen garden. I’ve never entered any competition before but, it seemed nearly serendipitous, so off went my tweet with their hashtag into the competition.
I’m exceedingly pleased to say, I won the competition and early this week my copy of The New Kitchen Garden arrived. I got to unwrap it just as a very rare UK thunderstorm began. At just under 400 pages, I can’t pretend that I’ve read it all as yet, but so far, it’s impressive, encouraging and informative. It’s a book that, I suspect, I’ll be keeping and referring to quite often. Thank you, Mark, for writing this!
A little video about the book and what inspired it.
