Blogspot - Interia Dezain

It's been a busy week here, getting the last of the trees and shrubs planted around the gardens and  preparing beds for the annuals. We also had an open day last weekend and was great to meet people from all over Bulgaria with shared interests in regenerative gardening. At the end of the week we started our Design and Build a Forest Garden Course  and had a great time with an awesome group. I'll write a post on the course and the garden we created during the course in the coming weeks. It's been sunny and warm for the first time this month and a good opportunity to get a team photo of the polyculture study crew. Misha, Philip, Eileen,  Ronan and Lia (left to right) have been doing an amazing job in the gardens this season.      Ataraxia Forest Garden Maintenance - November last year we created a 150 m2 forest garden in Ataraxia during our Design and Build Course ( you can read about how we created this garden in a previous post here ).  The plants are...

We're pleased to be joined by Lia this week who will be part of the team for the rest of the season. I'll get the team photo up next week. It's been a productive week with planting out more trees and shrubs for our perennial polyculture trials, almost finishing the planting of a small polyculture orchard (ran out of fruit trees) and preparing the annual beds and sowing in the market garden.     Ataraxia - Perennial Polyculture Trial Garden - The Polyculture Orchard  The last couple of weeks we've been planting out the tree layer of a small polyculture orchard in Ataraxia .  All of the fruit and nut cultivars in this polyculture orchard are available from our nursery for delivery in the Autumn We prepared the planting areas for these trees last summer by pegging out a contour line across the field to mark the tree row, mowing a pathway through the existing vegetation and placing straw bales on the planting locations with a shovel full of compost under each bale....