Forest garden experiment
I've been reading Harvey Ussery's permaculture
articles in both Mother Earth News and Backyard Poultry Magazine with
glee, and this
article about creating a forest garden really caught my
fancy. I detest wasted space, and about half of our growing space
right now feels wasted to me --- it's open, weedy areas between young
fruit trees.
I've planted vegetables and berries between the trees in one half of
the young orchard, but the other half has soil so terrible that I
figure by the time I get it enriched enough to grow anything
worthwhile, the trees will have closed in over my beds. The area
is also chock full of Japanese Honeysuckle and wild blackberries,
making it difficult to grow anything.
Sunday afternoon I got a bee in my bonnet and decided to experiment in
that awful soil area. I'm trying three different methods (which
you can see above.) Read about the
three beds....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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