Blogspot - Interia Dezain

This year I'll be posting periodical reviews of what we're getting up to during the Polyculture Study. Cherry Plum- Prunus cerasifera one of many wild fruit trees in the Market Garden    So, here's what we've been up to in the market garden last week. New Polycultures We're trying some new polycultures this year one of which we'll be experimenting with how much mulch we can grow within the beds using a fast growing, nitrogen fixing, biomass producing perennial  Paulownia tomentosa . Paulownia tomentosa 'Shan Tong' are planted in the middle of a 1.2 m wide raised bed to provide biomass for mulch and shade during the hottest periods of summer. These are nitrogen fixing plants and fairly deep rooted so I'm hoping there won't be detrimental competition with the annual crops. We'll be experimenting with various pruning regimes that will include the regular dropping of the huge leaves and coppicing/pollarding the herbaceous growth. We've called...