The fruit patch with all the little trees mulched
Today I felt that I wanted to celebrate the garden. We have had a goodly number of volunteers recently so the place is looking really beautiful although we still have some beds where there are too many weeds. I had to laugh when one volunteer who was leaving said she thought it unfortunate that all the beds where she had been weeding had weeds starting to grow again. I had to explain to her that weeds are like that and the best you can do is keep them manageable, not eradicate them completely. And in any case weeds are useful as we use them for chicken feed and compost.
This morning we finished cutting all the glyricidea bushes in the fruit patch and using the leaves to mulch all the fruit trees. Its brought a lot of extra light to the trees which I hope will now be more encouraged to grow. The glyricidea leaves will provide nitrogen for the plants when it rains and they start to break down.
When will it rain? None on the horizon so far even although it is the middle of the monsoon. Maybe we will get it all in one week at the end.....
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