Blogspot - Interia Dezain

During this post we will be looking at various ways to prepare beds for planting, specifically for planting trees and shrubs. I'll introduce you to a trial we started this spring where we're looking at 5 different bed preparation methods to see which method works best. We'll go through how to implement each method, why they are useful and finally look at the criteria we are judging the effectiveness of each method by.  We'll start with an introduction to the trial garden where we are undertaking this comparative study. In April 2017 we began the development of our new trial garden ( Ataraxia ). The garden will be used for a range of  perennial polyculture trials  and experiments in order to discover the best practices to produce nutritious affordable food while enhancing biodiversity. Ataraxia - Balkan Ecology Project-  New Polyculture Trial Garden The first of our trials begins with the development of the planting zones. We want to discover what is the best method t...

After a long cold winter it's great to get started on the third year of our polyculture study and to welcome this year's team to the project. Gabriele and Fergus are the first to join us, along with old friends Ute, Simon, Kartini, Marlene and Karl, who have purchased some land within an area we are working towards protecting . We've been pretty busy developing the new perennial polyculture garden , preparing the beds in the market garden and clearing plots for some new tree plantings. Here's a review of what we've been up to in the market garden so far and in a future post I'll write about developments in the new trial gardens. The Market Garden  This year we'll be running three annual polycultures trials in the market garden, the usual  Zeno , some changes to last year's  Epictetus  polyculture, and a variation on that theme called   Aurelius . Produce from the gardens will be offered in veggie boxes from mid June - late November and we still have room...