Kimberley

Had a lovely chat with my neighbour out in the garden. He struggles to grow fruit and lost all his raspberries, I lack the patience for annual veg seed starting but my perennial fruit plants are very abundant so he offered to share his veg in exchange for some fruit. Between us we've got a good harvest covered. I like that rather than all of us trying to grow bits of everything.

Also traded some raspberry cuttings for well rotted horse manure from another neighbour.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn

Apr 5 at 10:03amWeb
Show threadHenk van der Eijk1d ago
@Kimberley This sounds like an amazing pace to live!
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘1d ago
@Kimberley My neighbour over the back has a big veggie garden and I have hens. He throws his spent plants and excess veg over the fence for the chooks and I give him eggs.
Show threadBroadfork1d ago

@Kimberley This is as it should be and it helps keep gardening enjoyable.

The allotments are a proper, laid back bartering paradise.

A plot neighbour recently repaid my gift of some well rotted horse manure with some leeks. Another had some of my raspberry canes. Another some carrot seed. Another some lactic acid bacteria to try out.

I don’t know what, when or if a return trade might occur but that’s also part of the beauty of it.

Show threadMostlyTato23h ago
@Broadfork @Kimberley
This is how I try and do things. Scavenging materials, barter and exchange, it has a wonderful organic feel about it, like I'm only in control of the general direction of things and the specifics will be worked out by circumstance.
Show threadBroadfork23h ago

@MostlyTato @Kimberley I do likewise. A bit of imagination and some good fortune is a good combination.

I just missed out on a rusty scythe on freecycle, someone got in ahead of me.

Show threadMostlyTato13h ago
@Broadfork @Kimberley
Damn, a scythe is a good find. Don't find many of those in the back alleys. 🤔
Show threadJohn McLear1d ago
@Kimberley it's the future. I trade eggs for beer at my local pub 🍻
Show threadDave Volek1d ago

@Kimberley

Connections with neighbors are moving the world forward.

Show threadMar5h ago
@Kimberley neat!
What other perennials do you have planted? I'm looking into adding some plants this spring and I'm looking for ideas.
Show threadHelena4h ago

@marsiposa hope you don’t mind me jumping in.
Perennials I’ve got that are providing a crop now are leeks (Babingtons), kale (Daubenton’s plain and panache) 9 star brocolli, walking onions, herbs (sage, chives, thyme, rosemary)
Soon I’ll have skirret leaves & rhubarb.
Hoping to harvest some Hablitzia tamnoides sown two years ago
The corn salad, bittercress, wild rocket & red orache seed themselves.
As well as the fruit bushes and trees.
Also looking for more ideas

@Kimberley

Show threadKimberley4h ago

@Hellybootwader That's a great selection! I do want to try perennial veg as I only have fruit atm (well salad burnet and lambs lettuce that has escaped and self-seeded also)

@marsiposa I have apple, pear, cherry, apricot, gooseberry, black and red currants, strawberries everywhere, and raspberries in a couple of different varieties that give a nice long cropping season.