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Post-Winter Solstice Trip To Plot 420

There were deer tracks on the road in front of Plot 420: 

So were those of this coyote/feral dog:  

Blackbirds roosting: 

I dropped off the straw bales at Plot 420, did a little weed eating & cast some cover crop seeds down: 

I went walking around looking at other plots & taking photos along the forest edge. I had to jump this ditch: 

American robins roosting. The robins were the most active birds I saw today as they flew from their roost to raid the fields for earthworms & insects: 

Just a few deer walked this way: 

This is the same plant a few seconds later but with the flash on: 

Mallards on the wing: 

Green Meanie Lake: 

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Sustainable Permaculture – Build It in Fall and Enjoy a Weed Free, Self Fertilizing, Till Free Garden

To have a system in place to provide a weed free, self-fertilizing, till free garden sounds good to me. A method of gardening to do that is a sustainable permaculture bed. One way to develop them is in the fall, which is the best time to do this, set up you beds and use lots of mulch. Why Fall? It gives the winter season for that mulch to break down providing their benefits to your garden bed. To learn more about building these sustainable permaculture garden beds head on over to the next pages where you’ll also find a video all about Permaculture and No-till methods including Ramial wood chip method, strawbale gardens, soil/compost bombing, sheet mulching,

Want a worry-free, weed free, organic matter-rich vegetable garden bed? Wow! That just sounds fabulous and a little too good to be true……………. Actually, it is doable and fall is the best time to put it into action. How? Mulch!

Mulch is an amazing thing. Think about how nature works on its own. Every fall, trees shed their leaves, blanketing the ground. The leaves break down over the winter, providing nutrients back into the soil in time for spring when the trees need to power back up again. And these trees grow to massive heights and widths!

Using mulch, wood chips, and fallen leaves for your vegetable garden beds provide the same benefits; returning nutrients back to the soil that your vegetable plants need to produce their tasty leaves and fruits during the growing season.

Mulch also keeps in moisture and absorbs water, significantly reducing your watering needs. It protects the soil from the winds blowing it away. To top it off, it keeps the weeds from sprouting and causing you to have to spend hours each week pulling the little suckers. What’s not to love about that!

A system where you don’t have to bring in outside resources to replenish your garden bed health is referred to as sustainable permaculture. We need to look at this as utilizing the resources within our communities. Many communities have mulch free for the taking.  In some areas, tree removers would be thrilled to give you wood chips for free to get it off of their hands. The solution? Expand our mulched flower beds and plant veggies and fruiting plants among the flowers and use decorative containers on the patio.

To make the new vegetable/flower beds, we used a sod cutter to cut all the sod. We then turned the sod upside down, put newspaper over the top and then a 3” thick layer of mulch on top. We have since learned through experience, the whole sod cutting thing wasn’t necessary.  There is a much easier way.

Fall is the best time to start your new beds. It gives the entire winter for the grass and mulch to break down into the nutrients your veggie and fruit plants will need for the growing season.

*First, make sure you get a soil test to see what nutrients you are deficient in. The types that are tested are nitrogen (for green leafy growth), phosphorous (for flowers and fruits), and potassium (for overall plant vigor). Apply an organic source of the nutrients needed before applying the mulch. 

*Second, you don’t really need to use the sod cutter. 

*Third, try to use cardboard instead of newspaper. Make sure it isn’t shiny with chemical ink. Earthworms love cardboard. You’ll attract more to your garden bed.

*Fourth, add a 3” layer of compost on top of the cardboard and an organic all around fertilizer before the mulch. nitrogen will leach into the air if not covered. You lose about 50% of it if you just lay it on top of the ground so you need twice as much for the same benefit.

*Fifth, do more like a 6” layer of mulch in the fall. Recommended mulch that is from the whole tree (not just bark mulch) and is finer.  Big chunks just take longer to break down and you want that nutrition in your soil as soon as you can get it!