Rancho de la Libertad

I'm actually a few weeks behind on sharing some updated garden pictures, and I need to take new ones. We've had more rain and all of this is much greener now! But just for reference, this is one of our mixed infiltration basins: chicken litter mulch, yellow sweet clover around the greywater inlet (this basin gets much less and usually no greywater due to a slope issue caused by a previous WWOOFer - eventually we'll rectify that but for right now we're using this deep spot to grow food we can't grow in the proper greywater-fed basins), onions, smyrna melons, mustard greens (out of shot), cowpeas (second image) and butternut squash. As all of this grows, it will be a party of overlapping green, the squash entangling with the clover and the melon leaves flowing over the underground onion bulbs. It's already happening! I'll post some updated pictures soon.

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Oct 3, 2025 at 7:52pmWeb
Show threadRancho de la LibertadOct 4, 2025
A few more garden updates: squashes & our happy tomato plant climbing onto creosote "mother"
Show threadRancho de la LibertadOct 4, 2025

The first basin in this thread, but an updated photo showing more sprouts, fresh mulch and . It's hard to notice the abundance if you're used to lots of green! But it's so successful that we've gotten most of these seedlings this far just based on the work we've done with the soil and with water retention.

Also, cowpeas and onions in front! We've planted more squash companions this week which haven't sprouted yet. We'll see if they have enough time to establish before cold nights set in. I'm optimistic about the squash we planted in August, but less certain about the new ones. We'll just have to see!

Show threadRancho de la LibertadNov 8

Another update! These are the same locations as the previous post in this thread. Beans setting, squash setting fruit, gorgeous glorious nitrogen fixation and groundcover - all fed from the rain we were blessed with and very little supplemental water.

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Show threadWillNov 8
@rancholibertad
This is great!
Show threadRancho de la LibertadNov 8
@wannabemystiker Thank you!