Weeds are opportunistic plants that develop in disturbed environments. Their action can bring balance to the topsoil mining nutrients from below and making it available.
Our share is very sandy and prone to erosion. To slow the hill from creeping onto our driveway, and to provide a flat bed for planting we decided to build some permanent stone retaining walls.
Organic Gardening at the Permaforest Trust in Barkers Vale
There have been two large piles of woodchips at the front of Avalon for a few weeks. Slowly they have been shrinking. Today I joined in and collected two rubbish bins from other jobs around the block and made two trips filling them.
We constructed Four Compost piles to experiment with how the different variables manifested around the environment and what the effect was on the process. Also to gain experience and a feel for the art.
It’s been hard work getting our gardens ready for this season. We really want to increase our capacity to grow our own vegetables.
There is a magical fruit called the lemonade. When they are in season we buy as many as we can find and eat them everyday until they disappear again.
Our worm farm is simple enough. It works to transform kitchen organics and paper that don’t go to the Guinea Pigs into a ready to go mix of humus and seeds from the foods that we like. Pumpkins flourish. I think the most important thing is that it is convenient to use. We have a [...]
Click for panorama! Click the Above image for a full panorama of our herb + greens garden on the deck outside our kitchen. The run off from the canvas roof flows into the barrel on the left hand side, overflows into the basil box and then cascades down the bathtubs. We eat from it every [...]
