Along your Vermitrench place or dig in slightly, blocks with the holes vertically aligned. Add food scraps to the empty hole in the block then cover with a stone or lid. Redworms from the vermitrench with move into the block and consume the food scraps […]
Read MoreSheet mulch and contour bunds
In dry climates burying sheet mulch under topsoil with stone bunding on the downslope contour extends hydrophilic conditions by settling water on contour and sheltering it from dry conditions. The tightly fitted, generally airless stones aligned down slope from buried sheet mulch allows sheet […]
Read MoreGrains grown on lentils and arbuscular mycorrhiza
Grains produce quickly in summer, this results in annual pulses of plant detritus each winter. AMF(Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi) and VAM(vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza) inhabit fallen detritus through winter’s cooler season, the AMF and VAM activity during this period primes the soil for grains by hyper-activating the […]
Read MoreSmall Amounts Count
Pocket water: mimicking various types of geology that are generally non-porous and produce voids, noting lava flows that become ridges and peaks, some of those flows have large air holes. The air holes left in stones exposed at the surface create small “pocket water” pools […]
Read MoreAll Veg Compost Recipe
All Veg Compost The Recipe: Collect materials – Grasses, *leaves, green stem shrubs, soft roots OK, generally any plant from a garden. *More diversity of leaf shape and size is beneficial *Make it less woody, too much wood in the stack can cause heat distribution […]
Read MoreInstant Gardens for high and dry climates
In Spring 2024 I started on a new garden site facing SSE at 5090 ft Elevation (1551m) on tailings and hillside sluff most recently used for footpath and barrow access. The dominant geology is degraded rhyolite, andesite and quartz that degrades into silty heavy mineral […]
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