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Burra Maluca wrote:Now we just have to get rid of that pile of old olive prunings, get the grass cut a bit and mark out the edges..
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Nancy Reading wrote:
Are the grape prunings a possible resource for soil building?
How do hugel beds work in your climate?
What about seasons? Do you grow more September to April than May to August because of the summer heat? I guess the tree cover is advantageous to give some shade in summer.
I was surprised how small an area 200 square feet was when I looked at a couple of possibilities here - makes it much easier to fit in, and reduces the work preparing it.
I don't think landscape fabric would be approved.
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Burra Maluca wrote:Of course, it's the first time it's been done since we pruned the olives, so he kept hitting bits of olive branch that hadn't been cleared out of the way and had disappeared into the grass.
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Nancy Reading wrote:If the area is too irregular, you may need to just take a best guess:
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Aurora House wrote:I'm with you on the "not cold enough but going to try anyway" but I think while your focus is on the "easy" part mine is going to be on the "cheep & what I can scrounge from my 1/4 acer suburbia plot".
greater Seattle hasn't gotten to 0F since 1950 (this reascent freeze of the whole US we only got low teens.) but as the Puget sound glacier bulldozed all our top soil to Oregon and left glacial tile behind (a tumbled mix of everything from boulders to clay) i definitely go crap dirt. Which leads to the "input" requirements, how far back do we need to "prove" that they were here the whole time. I would be using rabbits to turn "weed trash to treasure" but I supplement their grazing with kitchen scraps and NOWHERE that gets to 0F is going to have local banana peals. Also on the rare occasions that I bring them inside because of weather their bedding is newspaper and shredded junk mail. So a lot of compost/mulch will be mostly junk paper. Saving food scraps and junk mail from becoming part of a landfill seems very inline with this project especially for some one that doesn't have X acers to mine for local inputs but when do they become "local"? when the bunnies turn them into pooper mache, when that gets put in compost, or run thru a worm bin so it is indistinguishable from soil?
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Nancy Reading wrote:One advantage your amoeba shaped garden looks like having will be lots of 'keyhole' paths to access the garden without stepping on it!
Tereza Okava wrote: i think a big advantage of this lovely curvy unfurling is that you'll avoid the problems I had with doing them longwise on a straight line-- they look like they support each other much better this way.
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Tereza Okava wrote:i also love the amoeba shaping! i know you mentioned having to avoid certain things but it was hard to tell from the photo.
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Burra Maluca wrote:Oooops. Paul has decreed that official GAMCOD beds be a sensible shape, so my chaos amoeba garden isn't going to count.
Oh well, I'm the wrong climate zone anyway. So I might as well just carry on and enjoy myself and grow some food and hope to inspire someone regardless of not being eligible to win prizes. I never was very good at following rules...
I also experimented with a bit of background video, just in case Paul wants it for padding out his video. Austin and I are still 'discussing' who gets to volunteer to do voice overs.
This one is showing Himself strimming the crazy long grass down to give me a path to wheel the barrow to the baby trees, which will also give me grass to put on the GAMCOD bed. And then a shot of windfall oranges and the compulsory one of Rock eating them. He's a bit addicted to foraging...
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Burra Maluca wrote:
And that's pretty much it for the summer. Planting will commence in the autumn after the rains have come. For now it can all just sit there and do its thing for a while.
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Nancy Reading wrote:You're too soft Burra! The squash looks pretty happy at present. Any chance it would make it without watering? It will still add biomass to your bed whatever happens now.
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