Pollinators
Rineke (she/her)Who else has hablitzia tamnoides in their garden?
@Maker_of_Things Thank you for repairing the spade. Spades are important even in the nodig garden. #nodig, #compost.
@Broadfork And the nodig and compost top dressing methods are sustainable gardening methods! Our compost still has a frozen core. #nodig, #compost.
BroadforkResults of a couple of hours of compost turning. #Compost #Gardening #Allotment #NoDig #Mulch #SolarPunk
Loop Farmer#Gardeners at a small scale #nodig methods are fine. They work, you should use them.
Once you start heading out into over a half acre you might want a different plan. Animal rotation, cover crop, and fallow years is what we have settled on.
For cover crops we grow white lupines from saved seed. We are testing if we can grow onions in the same field this year, so the cover crop field isn't empty.
Why White Lupine? You can eat them if you need to, they just require processing.
DashThis year's #MinimalDisturbance potato strategy. Mainly documenting for my own sake.
- Pulled back all the loose stuff on the bed to either side.
- Troweled the seed potatoes just far enough into the firm soil underneath that I can say "yes I buried them in actual soil" to my dad with a straight face if he asks*.
- Pulled about half the existing loose stuff back over them. Will use the rest in mounding up later along with new mulchy stuff
- Mulched with a good thick layer of lawn clippings.
* Potatoes of course are simultaneously probably the lowest value-added thing you can grow at home and the Holiest of Holy crops. I am absolutely fucking with tradition here by not conducting huge ceremonial earthworks to bury them in. I didn't plan to do this while my parents were out but was fairly happy they weren't around for plausible deniability reasons. π€«
You know what folks? I don't think my plan to consolidate my last two batches of compost from last year into one bin so I can get more started is quite going to work.
Not that "I have more compost than I thought" is a problem I'm going to lose sleep over.
ArneLast year in August, I started a new job. It's with the local district's craftsmen's association. We offer job orientation programs for 12-14 year old pupils.
I was asked to start a gardening program.
The location in a commercial estate next to a (little used) petrol station is far from perfect and waterlogged.
However the spinach, green in the snow, chard, carrots, coriander etc I planted/sowed with the kids last year made it through 20cm of snow cover under their fleece.
#gardening #NoDig
I was asked to start a gardening program.
The location in a commercial estate next to a (little used) petrol station is far from perfect and waterlogged.
However the spinach, green in the snow, chard, carrots, coriander etc I planted/sowed with the kids last year made it through 20cm of snow cover under their fleece.
#gardening #NoDig
I think my role in our kitchen garden is about 95% "move wheelbarrows full of various organic materials from one place to another".
