We
started the first of four what I call 'intermittent beds' in the Wild
Orchard. The main growing time on these beds will be the cool season
when we will grow tomatoes and lettuces. The rest of the year, when
we don't have so many volunteers, we will grow either green manures
or vegetables like pumpkins that don't take a lot of looking after.
This will improve the soil as well as providing more vegetables.
The
first job, as the picture shows, is to take off the top layer of
grass. It will be watered this afternoon and the top soil broken up
tomorrow. Then we will put a layer of compost on top and start
growing something. We need irrigation pipes but the irrigation
system is already there so It won't be a lot of work.
At
this stage the bed looks more like a path. A path to a new way of
doing something?
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