I've accidently made a terrarium!
I was using this lovely bottle to collect bits of crockery I had dug up (just because...) It was just stuck on the windowsil and this happened! The fern seem quite happy
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Did I just invent this? Do you think it would work?
comfrey circle design
The idea is that I could throw any weeds into the depression in the centre, the comfrey would
a) act as a barrier to prevent them spreading out of the hole and
b) use the nutrients to grow and make mulch material or greens for liquid plant food.
I have grown banana (!) but they did eventually succomb to the frost (and weren't fruiting plants)
What other plants might be suitable for this sort of arrangement?
When we first moved here and started using the woodstove in earnest I used to get quite sore and dry hands. I thought it was maybe from handling the ash, but now I'm not so sure, as I no longer have that problem. There may have been other environmental changes in moving 500 miles that affected us at the same time, or maybe we're just handling the ash less. I still fish the charcoal out of the (cool) ashes by hand though!
A graduate scientist turned automotive engineer, currently running a small shop and growing plants on Skye: turning a sheep field into a food forest.
