posted 4 years ago
Hello, as the spring is getting closer and closer, I am readying most of the garden for this season.
I have a good spot, hugelkultur like, which is about 2.5 sq meter. I recently made the hugelkultur, and I intend to plant perennials medicinal and aromatic plants.
I have another spot, bigger, where I had buried some logs (mostly big twigs) about a year ago, where I intend to plant a lot of medicinal herbs which help in one way or another with sleep and dreams.
I have yet another spot, with more woods buried (I think a pattern is starting here), where last year I had sown some physalis and Mexican tarragon.
And lastly, I have a spot, with some wood buried too (from last year too), where I intend to plant watermelons and a few other companions plants, mostly on treilis.
I am getting a bit anxious with everything, and despite it all being a huge experiment, I still find myself thinking too much, and getting stuck. So, to help with this, I want to know what would be the ideal thing to do.
The soil is mostly clay, although I loosened it. I removed most unwanted plants there, and tried to keep the ground covered in some way (but I probably didn't mulch enough). I live in a 8b USDA zone.
I have hemp mulch available, phacelia, melilotus, mustard, white clover, camelina and alfalfa seeds. I plan to add some compost to the watermelon patch, but I want to limit using it for other beds as I'll be planting medicinal plants and am not sure about the content of said compost.
I can get more "good" compost for the medicinal beds if required. All of them, except the new hugel, were cultivated last year.
What should i do ?
So far I plan to sow phacelia on the dream/sleep bed, let it grow enough, then chop it and put compost on top of it, then plant (as most plants there will only be available in May).
For the watermelon, I'm thinknig about adding compost, then perhaps having either some straw mulch or sow a green manure (but which one) ?
And for the other beds, well I have no idea.
What would you do ?