Blogspot - Interia Dezain

The polyculture study 2018 is over for the year but we are still active in the gardens during the autumn so I thought I'd continue the blog post updates on what we're up to. Aponia - The Market Garden  We've had the first few overnight frosts in the gardens and this usually kills off the sub-tropical vegetables such as tomatoes, basil and squash, but the cold hardy vegetables continue to grow well. The broccoli really enjoy the autumn weather and should start to flower within the next month or so. Parsnips, carrots and kale are also unaffected by the cold nights and will continue to grow given warm day time temperatures that we often experience here. The misty mornings are a welcome change to the oppressive dry heat of the summer.    The last of the courgettes, the first of the parsnips and butternut squash picked for the veggie boxes this week. We're also including walnuts, artichokes, apples, grapes, kale and parsley.  Our  perennial vegetable bed, a polycultu...

The Polyculture Study 2018 has now officially come to a close for the year, and we will be publishing the annual report and results by December.  Once again we have been supported by a truly amazing team of people, without whom, the study would simply not be possible. This year we have been able to work on two trials across two gardens, as well as developing a plan for a new garden Eudaimonia that we'll establish next year. So, our heartfelt thanks go out to ;Victoria Bezhitashvili, Angela Rice, Malcolm Cannon, Elise Bijl, Alex Camilleri, Daniel Stradner, Emilce Nonquepan and Ezekiel Orba. You can find a Slideshow of the season here Registration is open for next years study, so if you would like to join us  visit here to find out more and to register The Polyculture Study So here are some photos of what we've been up to in the gardens these last weeks, Forest Garden Fruits in the Autumn light are one of my favourite spectacles in the gardens. These  Mespilus germanic...