tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57471174141415880862024-03-19T01:26:17.991-07:00Urban Gardening in UtahGood-bye lawn hello sustainable agriculture. Starting with a mini-food forest in my urban backyard. Plant perennial vegetables, fruits and other edibles. From the common peach to the exotic super-fruit goji. Learn, plant and eat your own organic food.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-60304296940160944162012-01-17T14:27:00.001-08:002012-01-17T16:06:34.347-08:00Dreary winter fun with spring 2012 catalogs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div>While the winter landscape is bleak and dreary spring 2012 catalogs give respite. My favorites are; Seed Savers Exchange, Bountiful Gardens, One Green World, territorial and forestfarm. This next month is all about planning out my new garden beds, and adding to existing garden beds. Think living mulch, ground covers, plants, flowers, herbs, bushes, shrubs and trees. Nuts, fruits, berries, nitrogen fixers and more.<br />
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It's also pre-order time at <a href="http://permaculturenursery.com/">Food Forest Farm</a>. They have quite a few plants that are hard to find. From ground covers that are nitrogen fixing to rare perennial edibles like spinach vine. They also carry plants suggested in many permaculture books like comfrey, sea kale, sweet cicely and more.<br />
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So while things are chill and miserable outside read, daydream and order seeds, pre-order plants for this years garden.<br />
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Thoughts:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Commit. To yourself. Your family or loved ones.<br />
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<li>Be healthier, if that's only walking then walk. Don't fool yourself you don't have to have a world changing new years resolution that by fall you'll be running marathons or triathlons, just be active.<br />
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<li>Eat healthier, if it's just cutting out soda pop or one less fast food meal that's a start. Long term goals are to cut out soda, coffee, alcohol, ciggerettes and anything else food related that effects your physical well being.<br />
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<li>Change yourself. Your you. Perfection is grossly overrated. You are worth it. Take time, if it's a yoga class [that's my me time] or just a 15 minute time-out for yourself then take it. Your mental well being will help everyone around you find peace.</li>
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Challenge:<br />
If your a beginner grow an edible plant in a pot or ground.<br />
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Change your landscape, change your life. Edibles can be beautiful, and are more than just looking at.<br />
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Recap; Above you can see I've a typical backyard. Mostly grass. Unhappy grass I should say. I marked my food forest beds with orange paint. Then I had a company come out and deep till in amendments and my grass into my clay soil in April. The garden beds are a little over 2000 square feet combined total.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Picture left to right in a circle. Local Utah amendments; Azomite (brown granular), Ute-Lite (grey), manure blend mulch. This will get my food forest off to a good healthy start. I did put a good deal of Dino-Mite in with my plantings.</div><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I got 8-10 yards of manure/compost. Then I used cardboard and newspaper for my sheet mulching layer as my weed suppressant. Check out my other post for complete details on sheet mulching. This was a huge undertaking. I needed a little help. My neighbors both Tyra and April, my little ones, husband and husbands brother Doug helped me get the whole space put together. Thank you my friends I am so greatful for your help. This could not have been finished without you! Sheet mulching done!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Odd to do this after but I am still digging swales, my middlest helped me as you can see. Thanks love!<br />
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What when in? Everything that I mentioned in my earlier post. These numbers are updated and varieties as well are included. Quick recap;<br />
<blockquote class=""><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: left;">3 diffrent autmn olives [Ruby, Garnet and Amber]</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1 self-fertle peach </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1 four in one plum</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">3 twigs that they call hazelnut bushes</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1 goji</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1 blueberry [patriot]</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">3 almond bushes [Dwarf Russian, <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Prunus Tenella</span></i>]</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">25 strawberry plants (Hood variety June baring) </li>
<li>Siberian Pea Shrub</li>
<li>Powells Wormwood</li>
<li>Pink Lupine</li>
<li>Corel Bells </li>
<li>Grapes [Black seedless monnuka, green seedless thompson, black seedless mars, concord (heirloom from family), and tickled pink]</li>
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I am still putting in swales. I have been redoing my secondary water sprinklers. I have a filter on the water and am putting in drip irrigation for my new beds. I've heavily mulched and am building swales to utilize as much rainwater as possible. My drip is almost complete I will then put another layer of much down to retain the water and keep it from the hot summer sun.<br />
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Soil Costs and where I got them<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Azomite (Steve Regan $24 per 44lb bag [2])</li>
<li>Dyno-Mite (IFA $29.99 per 3.5 gallon bucket [1])</li>
<li>Ironite (Costco $20 per 50 lb. bag [1])</li>
<li>Ute-Lite (IFA 4.99 per bag [8]).</li>
<li>Manure blend mulch 8-10 yards (from Tony Mascara Trucking $100)</li>
<li>Master Tillage. ($35 an hour [2 hours])</li>
<li>Cardboard Roll $10</li>
<li>Newspaper FREE.</li>
<li>Straw bales FREE.</li>
</ul>Total a little over $300<br />
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Update. The free straw bales had rye seeds. Which has been both good and bad fore me. The rye grows faster than my clover. And as the clover starts to fill in I have been pulling the rye and leaving it on the soil for organic matter.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Oh so sad. As my food forest beds where being prepped for the first and last time I had them deeply tilled. My wonderful amendments were mixed in. My sweet tilling master Kevin was very thurough, and since my grape vines were relatively new (planted last season) they now are part of my organic matter enriching my soil!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
I've already begun plopping my baby plants into this new food forest bed over the sheet mulch. I've added more mini-fruit trees and shrubs as well. That I will talk about in my next post.<br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-4021124354099706942011-04-30T07:39:00.000-07:002011-04-30T07:39:58.257-07:00Snowy April morning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I'm outside every day. In the rain, hail and snow. Making sure the plants are watered, pets are feed, letting the pets in and out of their nifty eglu home. I'm planting new additions at least once a week. I am in my basement growing station everyday watering or misting plants. I have to re-pot them now they've outgrown the little pellets they were planted in. <div><br />
</div><div>I've taken pictures and blogged about my newest addition to my food forest. The crimson clover is just peaking through the soil. I'll have to thin in a week or so. My trees and shrubs are getting leaves, despite the record cold temperatures. <div><br />
</div><div>Here is the long awaited but-; I blog on my kids laptop and they broke the USB ports so I can't download any of my videos or photo's. So I don't publish my posts. It's ridiculous really that we spoiled them so much they have a laptop and I have none. But that's the way it's been. </div><div><br />
</div><div>They (the kiddos) wait patiently for me to blog, and then they get on the computer and play plants vs zombies. Fitting really. I love green and living things and those are the superhero's of the game. I hear them singing the credits "There is zombies on your lawn, we don't like zombies on our lawn" so funny. Really.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I'm just sitting here giddy as can be because we (me and husband) just bought a really nice computer that's basically mine. I don't have to share with kiddos. Large 23" touchscreen, high def, wireless all for me in the kitchen. I'll be able to upload all my videos, pictures and custom design my blogs look.</div></div><div><br />
</div><div>I'm off to the plant guilds workshop this snowy April 30th. It's as I mentioned in an earlier post hosted by Wasatch gardens and TreeUtah. I'll take pics and/or video and post what I've learned. Until then cheers.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-71470673672397939632011-04-15T16:20:00.000-07:002011-04-15T16:20:09.361-07:00Stealing Nature's Thunder - Soil<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">First in my "Stealing Nature's Thunder" blog articles. <b>It's all about the soil.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Maybe perhaps you're as excited as I am to change your garden over to perennial vegetables, fruits and nuts. Perhaps you tear into your lot with abandon, and find yourself staring at over 2000 square feet of garden. I've planned. I've written my information down. I've used software to imagine my garden in 3D views. But when I'm staring at that expanse I understand finally what fears my husband had in letting me take on such a project.<br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The weeds. The garden falling to pieces as my super gung-ho attitude fades with the sweltering heat and I give the huge garden beds less attention then they need. But here is the thing, it's not a garden I'm building. Gardens take a lot of work, and if you ignore them very long the gardens suffer and ultimately unravel and die. I'm not gardening I'm creating a ecological forest, something mutually beneficial to me, birds, insects and all manner of wildlife - even low and behold my neighbors.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">If you leave a forest unattended does it fall apart? Nope. The forest continues on stable while my tomatoes die because I forget to water them, and my peas get drowned out with the weeds I don't want to pull. My soil needs more amendments because of the beautifully tilled earth I used in my annual beds. I left my soil un-mulched, because isn't that expensive? Well it's a lot of work. Any effort is at this point. The nutrients dried up and blew away and weeds are starting to overtake my other vegetation. It's too much work. So I am not building a garden I am building a diverse edible food forest.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">So how? Lets start with the ground and go from there. Your hands are itching to grab your own, a family members or even your neighbors tiller and turn that soil into light fluffy goodness. Oh you'll add in enough chemicals to do Chernobyl proud, and your plants will love it. Maybe your better than I am and will mulch around your plants. Your weeding is lessened. You'll smile and beam. But then your forget to have neighbors plant sit (haha) while you go on vacation. Do you have automatic sprinklers? No? Oh well there goes your entire crop. Oh you do good. You'll have a few weeds when you get back. Oh my, that's not a few weeds it's a crop of weeds.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Break they cycle. Don't till. WHAT? You heard me right, little gnomes don't have trackers or tillers ripping through the forest. They don't add pounds of chemicals to make a greener leaf. Nope the trees drop leaves, the animals leave other droppings, and that's it. The trees leaves form a mulch and as they decompose they break down and leave needed nutrients. The animals droppings leave more organic matter. This addresses the top of the soil.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">What about the under soil, what about tilling? What about nitrogen, and other nutrients? Surly the plants can't get that all from leaves and waste, all from the top of the soil. Nope. They have these green things that grow, yes I mean plants. These perennial plants do the tilling with deep taproots, that pull up from the depths of the earth the nutrients that benefit all around it. Dynamic accumulators like; comfrey, geranium, stinging nettles (ouchy for kiddos though) and peppermint. Also there are nitrogen fixing plants, shrubs and trees like; Autumn Olive, goumi, birdsfoot treefoil and clovers. Some are more invasive than others.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">If you've torn into your land like me, in the beginning my tiny twigs that will eventually become beautiful fruit and nut trees are exactly that tiny. The hundreds of plants I've started and will put in are still minute in my vast sea of grasslessness. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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So in breaking what surely is some rule I'm planting a annual cover crop of clover. Annual? Why not just plant perennials, I mean is that not what you're doing mostly? Yes. But not with clover, not yet. Clover can be very invasive in small places. So since my husband does not want me to tear out the last little oasis of lawn in the back and replace it with clover, my clover cover crop will be annual. I'm using crimson clover a beautiful longer flowering clover in ALL of my food forest beds. I will cut it down at the end of season (fall) and leave it as mulch. Thus adding nitrogen to the soil and organic matter. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I can at any time sheet mulch over any one part of my crimson clover field and plant my hundreds of plants. Or new trees and shrubs that I tend to collect every time I'm near a gardening nursery. I do have annuals, tomatoes and such that are inter planted with my perennials. All the while my crimson clover field will be attracting beneficial insects, creative a ground cover, keeping moisture in the soil, adding nitrogen and other organic matter to the soil. It will also be a parent plant to my small trees and shrubs giving them a little shade in the scorching heat of summer.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Next year I will plant more plants over the top of my cut dead clover, I will never till again. That feels good to say. I how ever will be planting more cover crop until my other plants grow to take the space that I have so graciously stolen from my husbands lawn. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><b>Quick Summery. </b>Don't till. Layer leaves and other organic matter over immature forest area. Sheet mulch new areas to plant. Use cover crops. Sheet mulching how-to below. </i><br />
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<i>(only if going over grass or hard packed area)</i> </blockquote><blockquote>layer cut vegetation<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1/8 inch<br />
<i>(grass clippings)</i> </blockquote><blockquote>soil amendments like minerals<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As desired<br />
<i>(azomite, dyno-mite, greensand, etc.)</i> </blockquote><blockquote>manure<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1/4-1/2 inch<br />
<i>(non meat eating animal, steer, cow, horse, ect.) </i></blockquote><blockquote>newspaper/cardboard<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1/4 inch<br />
<i>(for weed suppression as well as organic matter) </i></blockquote><blockquote>manure or other nitrogen rich material <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1/4 inch<br />
<i>(clover, pea shrub leaves, alder leaves, locust leaves, etc.) </i></blockquote><blockquote>bulk organic matter<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8-12 inches<br />
<i>(hay, stable bedding)</i> </blockquote><blockquote>compost<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1-2 inches<br />
<i>(your own or organic)</i> </blockquote><blockquote>seedless mulch<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2 inches<br />
<i>(straw, leaves)</i> </blockquote><blockquote>Wet the area in between layers. Make sure it's completely saturated.</blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">What <b>compost </b>you say, I don't have my own. Those compost piles stink. Yuk. No, no you have it all wrong, that is if you cheat. It doesn't smell so bad, (I guess it's a matter of opinion although I have it by my trash cans so perhaps I can't smell it over their odor. Anyways making your own enriched compost comes with the territory of self sufficiency. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i>I do my composting in three parts</i></b>;<br />
<blockquote><i><b>1. Worms farm</b></i>. So easy. Mine is in my basement!<br />
<i><b>2. Animals</b></i>. No dogs or cats or anything that eats meat. Rabbits, chickens or ducks if you have a large enough area and no neighbor for miles man are those things loud and stinky. If you have a rabbit you can have their cage raised and catch the waste into a box for the worm farm. Super cool. Pullets (girl chickens) are quiet, eat spiders, grubs and all manner of nasty bugs. They give quite a bit of fertilizer with the added benefit of giving you fresh eggs.<br />
<b><i>3. Good old fashioned compost pile</i></b>. Of course I cheat. I have a "composter" I got at costco. Less than $100. I put all my green waste I can't feed my animals or worms into this. Which of course the smell is contained since it's not completely open.</blockquote></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Cheers to your soil. Happy forest gardening.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i>What's next</i></b>: Stealing Natures Thunder - 02 - plant communities, layering and patterns. Next week.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-23997176856862603042011-04-11T10:12:00.000-07:002011-04-11T10:12:46.130-07:00"Cultivating Fruit Tree Guilds" Workshop April 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I'm so excited to announce I found two local organizations that are practicing permaculture/food forest principles in gardening. TreeUtah has free workshops, tours and volunteer possibilities. Wasatch Community Gardens has a wide variety of workshops, kids summer camps which are low cost - and volunteer possibilities. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">TreeUtah and Wasatch Community Gardens have teamed up to bring us a workshop which I've signed up to attend; "Cultivating Fruit Tree Guilds". </span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"> Where: Day Riverside Library</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"> 1575 West 1000 North</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"> When: </span></span>Saturday April 30th</span><br />
<div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">What time: 1-3 pm</span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Cost: $10</span></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Check out Wasatch Communty Gardens list of events <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://wasatchgardens.org/events">here</a>.</span> If your interested in the workshop </span>"Cultivating Fruit Tree Guilds" and want to sign up click <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2927; line-height: 27px;"><a href="http://wasatchgardens.org/civicrm/event/register?id=179&reset=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://wasatchgardens.org/sites/all/themes/wcg/images/link.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 34, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #339900; text-decoration: none;">here</a></span> or just scroll down their long exciting list of events and click the "Click here to register now" link.<br />
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Check out TreeUtah's calendar registration list to see events that are avaliable. These are all free! <a href="http://treeutah.org/calender/event-registration/">Event calendar registration</a> page.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-90193318151072771722011-04-04T10:36:00.000-07:002011-04-04T10:36:03.869-07:00Oh no, what have I gotten into?<div>My longing for self sufficiency and trees has landed me in some trouble. I feel like I'm drowning in my obsession with this oh so not little project I have taken on. Why do I feel I'm drowning? I have these to plant;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">3 diffrent autmn olives</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">a self-fertle peach</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">a 4 in one plum</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">3 twigs that they call hazelnut bushes</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">2 goji</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">5 blueberry</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">3 almond bushes</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">2 bush clovers</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1 goumi</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1 maypop</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">25 strawberry plants (Hood variety June baring)</li>
</blockquote></ol><div>I have so many more trees and shrubs I want* and yet I don't have a clue now that I'd bought so many things how I can really follow my plan and place them all. I've turned to gardening software for placement to get a general idea how it will look. Pretty cool. But time consuming and frustrating because I am using unique plants and trees that are not commonly used for landscaping. Plus I am too cheap to buy the software so I am using a trial. Ha! So what I get is a general idea for placement but not the correct dimensions. They are the right width but not height. Better than in my head I guess.</div><div><br />
</div><div>My confessions and mild regrets. I regret the blueberry bushes. I bought them last year and now that I've read more realize they don't fit in my plan at all. I don't have acidic soil for them and don't want to pamper them. There are some really good wild fruit bush alternatives, that don't need special pampering. I spent that money and I wish I could get it back.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I mildly regret the 75+ varieties of perennials, annuals and such. All seeds. Shelving, lights and heating mats too. I should have bought them next year. I will still plant half of them this year, and am starting many indoors. But this was a cost I didn't need right now. It has and will come in handy for me so I can't really complain.</div><div><br />
</div>I got some pets. I have mixed emotions with them. I love them for my garden and find myself quite attached to them. I should have though waited a year or two to get them since they tend to be hard on the yard/garden in it's initial faze. They tend to eat the new vegetation lol! Somehow though I just love them to much to have any real regrets, though the cost was substantial when it comes to the total cost I've spent on my project. So financially it regret this decision. If I had waited two years that would have been a much better plan. :) But I like them so too bad for me.<br />
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</div><div>*Trees and bushes I want, but can't have them all;</div><div><ol><li>Sweet Cherry Tree</li>
<li>Combo Pear</li>
<li>Fruiting dogwood (Cornelian cherryCornus mas)</li>
<li>Hardy Citrus (Flying Dragon/ Poncirus trifoliata monstrosa)</li>
<li>Paw paw (Asimina triloba)</li>
<li>Service Tree (Sorbus domestica)</li>
<li>Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)</li>
<li>Pine Nut tree (undecided)</li>
<li>Currants for under trees</li>
<li>Honeyberry (Lonicera caerulea var. edulis) [instead of blueberry]</li>
<li>Seaberry [Habego var.]</li>
<li>Hardy Kiwi (Actinidia arguta)</li>
<li>Bamboo (Edible and for privacy)</li>
<li>Japanese Pepper (Zanthoxylum pipertium)</li>
<li>Sechuan pepper (Zanthoxylum simulans)</li>
<li>Hawtorn (Craaegus spp.)</li>
<li>Mulberry (Morrus spp.)</li>
<li>Siberian Pea (Caragana aborescens)</li>
<li>Sweet nut Oak (undecided)</li>
<li>Lime (Tilia spp.) [coppiced edible leaves]</li>
<li>Birch (Betula spp.)</li>
<li>Maple (Acer spp.)</li>
<li>Bayberry (Myrica spp.)</li>
<li>Buffalo berry (Shepherdia argentea) [plant in same hole with fruiting trees]</li>
<li>Plum Yew (Cephalotaxus spp.)</li>
<li>Cherry (carmine jewel 6 ft tree)</li>
<li>Saltbush (Atriplex canescens or halimus) Dieback perenial bush?</li>
<li>Moringa (dieback tree)</li>
<li>Beech (fagus sylcatica)</li>
<li>America Allspice (Calycabthus spp.)</li>
<li>Mock Orange (Philadelphus spp.) [soap plant, beneficial insectory, fragrant, dye]</li>
</ol></div><div><div>I should have broke my plan down into stages over a few years. In the beginning I had no idea how that would work. How could I break this down into steps? Easy no, but surely I could break it down into smaller steps. Soil prep & water, hardscaping if desired, trees in fazes if needs be, shrubs then plants. Instead I'm doing it all now, in a medium size area. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Ridiculous. And I'm mostly doing it on my own. If you knew how little I was you'd be laughing at that. Me digging a 30x50 foot area by myself. I'm insane. And loving every minute of it. Cheers to all you over achievers, and those with the insanity of foresting Utah (or your state/country) one lot at a time!</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-8948414906149977132011-03-17T11:51:00.000-07:002011-03-17T12:00:31.643-07:00Robert Hart and food forests.<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Food forest diagram </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 19px;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Forgard2-003.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="File:Forgard2-003.gif" height="275" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Forgard2-003.gif/800px-Forgard2-003.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Checker-16x16.png); background-origin: initial; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; vertical-align: middle;" width="425" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Robert Hart (horticulturist)</span></h1><div id="bodyContent" style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; position: relative;"><div id="siteSub" style="display: inline; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><div id="contentSub" style="color: #7d7d7d; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: auto;"></div><div class="thumb tright" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 1.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; width: auto;"><div class="thumbinner" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 3px !important; padding-left: 3px !important; padding-right: 3px !important; padding-top: 3px !important; text-align: center; width: 252px;"><a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hart.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Hart.jpg/250px-Hart.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; vertical-align: middle;" width="250" /></a><br />
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<div class="thumbcaption" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 3px !important; padding-left: 3px !important; padding-right: 3px !important; padding-top: 3px !important; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; float: right;"><a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Forestgarden2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; color: #0645ad; display: block; text-decoration: none;" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial; display: block; vertical-align: middle;" width="15" /></a></div>Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire, England</div></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><b>Robert A de J Hart</b> (1 April 1913 – 7 March 2000) was the pioneer of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_garden" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Forest garden">forest gardening</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="United Kingdom">UK</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Robert A de J Hart began his forest garden project at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenlock_Edge" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Wenlock Edge</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Shropshire</a> on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Wales">Welsh</a> borders in the early 1960s with the intention of providing a healthy and therapeutic environment for himself and his brother Lacon, who was born with severe <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_disabilities" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Learning disabilities">learning disabilities</a>. Although starting as a relatively conventional <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallholder" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Smallholder">smallholder</a>, Robert A de J Hart soon discovered that maintaining large <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_plant" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Annual plant">annual</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">vegetable</a> beds, rearing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">livestock</a> and taking care of an<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">orchard</a> were tasks beyond his strength. However, he also observed that a small bed of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_vegetable" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Perennial vegetable">perennial vegetables</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Herb">herbs</a> he had planted was looking after itself with little or no intervention. Furthermore, these plants provided interesting and unusual additions to the diet, and seemed to promote health and vigour in both body and mind.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Noting the maxim of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">Hippocrates</a> to “make food your medicine and medicine your food”, Robert adopted a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Vegan">vegan</a>, 90% <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_food" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Raw food">raw food</a> diet. He also began to examine the interactions and relationships that take place between plants in natural systems, particularly in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">woodland</a>, the climax <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-system" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Eco-system">eco-system</a> of a cool temperate region such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">British Isles</a>. This led him to evolve the concept of the ‘Forest Garden’: Based on the observation that the natural forest can be divided into distinct layers or ‘storeys’, he developed an existing small orchard of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Apple">apples</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Pear">pears</a> into an <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edible_landscape&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #ba0000; text-decoration: none;" title="Edible landscape (page does not exist)">edible landscape</a> consisting of seven dimensions;</div><ol style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-image: none; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 3.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A ‘canopy’ layer consisting of the original mature fruit trees.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A ‘low-tree’ layer of smaller nut and fruit trees on dwarfing root stocks.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A ‘shrub layer’ of fruit bushes such as currants and berries.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A ‘herbaceous layer’ of perennial vegetables and herbs.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A ‘ground cover’ layer of edible plants that spread horizontally.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A ‘rhizosphere’ or ‘underground’ dimension of plants grown for their roots and tubers.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A vertical ‘layer’ of vines and climbers.</li>
</ol><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Hart's vision of the spread of the forest garden is summarised in the following quote;</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>Obviously, few of us are in a position to restore the forests.. But tens of millions of us have gardens, or access to open spaces such as industrial wastelands, where trees can be planted. and if full advantage can be taken of the potentialities that are available even in heavily built up areas, new ‘city forests’ can arise...</i></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-65362856023731736722011-03-11T09:34:00.000-08:002011-03-11T09:45:09.076-08:00My food forest part 1 with picturesSo it's March and there is snow on the ground off and on. Today was unusually warm, so me and two of my kiddos started prepping for our second faze of our food forest. <br />
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What took me a several weeks to get done last summer/fall I've already done today. I used my most favorite garden tool, my handy digging fork and loosened a 10 x 15 area. I have oh so much more to do but it felt so good to be out, working hard in my dirt. <br />
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In a week I need all my loosening done. I have a 12 yard screened topsoil, mulch mix coming. I will do my sheet mulching and prep most of the beds with a cover crop. (In between the snow/melting) Here is a quick walk around at my current yard. From front yard, left side yard, and my back yard looking towards my prepped food forest from last fall, and lastly in the corner my current annual garden beds with grapes in the back and two espelir apple trees against my house.<br />
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In the next month I will have trees and shrubs to plant. I'm thinking a black locust, peach, cherry tree base to my food forest. We love both peaches and cherries and the black locust is a nitrogen fixing tree that's pods can be ground for forage for animals. <br />
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In May I will plant all those little plants growing in my basement. Voila my food forest part 1 will be well on it's way.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-273794538769809242011-03-10T11:34:00.000-08:002011-03-10T11:34:26.923-08:00Dirt! The Movie.<object width="512" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/WQRUNQ2tjr5A5knzCOkFvw"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/WQRUNQ2tjr5A5knzCOkFvw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512" height="288" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object><br />
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Living, breathing dirt. What you think of as precious or wealth may change. One hour and twenty minutes of valuable information.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-21431340254619154922011-03-09T20:46:00.000-08:002011-03-09T20:46:52.677-08:00My basement worm farmIt was several months back that I went to my local walmart and picked up two opaque plastic 55 gallon tubs. I proceeded to drill dozens of holes in the top, and sides of one of the tubs. Which I then filled with shredded paper, cardboard, paper egg cartons, well rotted vegetables and a small bit of garden soil. All was moist. In the other tub I placed two empty 10# cans for spacers and placed the other hole ridden tub on top of it. A week or so later my red worms came. I placed them inside the tub full of trash and boom there is my worm farm.<br />
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Suffice it to say my husband was extremely grossed out with my new pets, just in the unfinished part of his domain. Which of course is the entire basement which includes the family room minus a tiny spot he has generously let our three kids have some toys in after much persuasion on my part.<br />
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Here is our worm farm conversation; [so funny I can say that.]<br />
<blockquote>"Mom's getting us pets Dad!" My little 4 and 2 year old say My 7 year old is silent. She knows it's not in our best interest to share that information with him. </blockquote><blockquote>"Really!!!" He says eyeing me with a 'what are they talking about smile, we are not pet people.' </blockquote><blockquote>"Worms. We feed them our rotten food Dad." the words burst from my 4 year though she herself is wearing a grossed out face. My 2 year old and 7 year are smiling happily. They all love anything I say is good for us and our garden. ;) </blockquote><blockquote>"No way we are not having worms." He replies to the kids. In a very firm tone. Their faces take a stricken look. "Oh that's disgusting Bran, it's going to smell like rotten food. You can't have them." He informs me then, in an exasperated and slightly offended tone. </blockquote>The conversation goes on, only horribly wrong for me. He's very admit that we will NEVER have any worms INSIDE our house.<br />
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It's barley January when we have this conversation. I never thought to ask permission. It's just worms. The snows are pretty heavy at this point and well, no, the worms can't go outside. So I just drop the subject. I had already bought the tubs and prepared them. I couldn't quite bring myself to tell him the whole truth, the worms were on their way already. I'd just have to ask for forgiveness when and if - he finds out. So as the weeks past we got our package of worms and I plopped them in the box. I tell my children that Dad doesn't like the worms so don't talk to him about them.<br />
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About a month later my husband informs me every time he opens the unfinished basement door that my 4 year old tells him we should "feed our worms" or "the worms don't like light". Even my 2 year old is in on ratting me out she tells dad about "mommy's babies" or "wurm fahm" yep that's her way of telling him we've got a worm farm just 15 feet from his television.<br />
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But nope it doesn't smell. And since HE doesn't actually have to feed them he doesn't mind. It's not work for him and he could nearly forget because in the unfinished basement most of our tubs look the same. He still thinks it is gross, and now my 7 year old does too! But my 4 and 2 year old pile their uneaten green waste like soy bean pods (beans already eaten) and lettuce leaves proudly into the tubs. We're "feeding mommies babies" after all.<br />
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</div><div>Hope you enjoyed that little tidbit. Life is a little too funny not to share some days.</div><br />
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Our composting IS going awesome. It's been three months now. The worms are healthy, I'm not sure you can kill them really. They are just too easy. Our kitchen waste is so much less; with the greens going into the worm farm, recycling [in which I myself have to drive to a recycling center] our trash has dramatically reduced by 60% or more.<br />
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Three fold soil composting;<br />
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<ol><li>Worm farm [rotted green waste from our garden/fridge, pet waste]</li>
<li>Compost tumbler [waste that cannot be used in the worm farm and the pets won't eat]</li>
<li>Pet's eating our fresh green waste [unfinished vegetables and such, their waste and bedding going into the worm farm] </li>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-46559722548878641882011-02-28T18:21:00.000-08:002011-02-28T18:21:52.702-08:00Gardening now. Oh and don't forget to get your HOA's approval-It's way to early for gardening you say? Physically yes, snowy drifts are telling me your right. No I don't have plants ready to plop in the ground but it is time to start seed so in a few months they will be ready. WHAT months, yep it's Utah I can't plant most plants until late April early May. Nonetheless my plants will be healthy and quite large by the time I plant them.<br />
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I have been reading every permaculture, food forest, and homesteading gardening books I can get a hold of. There are quite a few REALLY really good ones. Most I got from my local library and and having a hard time parting with them. Too much information to let go of. Well I suppose since I have more than 20 sticky notes in several it's time to buy them.<br />
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I want a successful sustainable way to garden here in the Salt Lake Valley. That is what lead me to permaculture, food forests and perennial vegetables being the main topics I am researching.<br />
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Who knew how completely complex it would be to plan and plant? Coming from an immature ecosystem, mostly the savannah and prairie succession. To planning out an early succession food forest. Planning what will happen and how will my landscape adapt and change when it matures, going into mid succession. Making sure there are general and specialist nectary plants blooming from early spring to late fall. Ouch it makes my head hurt.<br />
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For every plant there are so many things to consider; from typical gardening light needs, soil preferances, USDA zone tolerances, root structures, benefits to other plants/animals and people and so much more.<br />
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I have ALL the seeds from the plants that I can plant from seed with somewhat ease bought. I have the shelving and lights to be set up this week in the basement to start the plants now. I'll post pics when my husband helps me get the very heavy shelves downstairs.<br />
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I also have a worm farm, a composter and a little help from mini manure machines I'm not at liberty to share what they are but they work great for our garden. No it's not our kids ha that's funny and gross. Every state, city and neighborhood has rules for pets, bees and such. Someday in the next few years we will add a beehive, they are legal here in Utah, and more so in our city. Also my HOA (Home Owners Association) did not outlaw them, although I'm sure they would if they thought about it.<br />
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Here is my HOA rant. It seems everything beneficial to our garden is a radical idea to an HOA. A worm farm, pets like rabbits or a beehive are frowned upon or outright illegal. I'm suppose to get approval from a committee before I plant a plant - even in my backyard. Before I get pets, before I put a structure up like my kids swingset in the backyard or a fence I am suppose to get written permission from (hold your breath) my HOA. My HOA fee gives me water both culinary and secondary. The secondary water the city has warned us, in writing - if you play in the water or drink it that you can get diarrhea for life. Seriously? Use it to water my food plants? No way. Use it to water the grass. Well in a few years I'll say what grass but right now I'm still converting my yard so, as bad as it is I do use it for that.<br />
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My neighborhood is gated and they spray chemicals like weed killer and fertilizer on our grass spring, summer and fall and mow our lawns. I've had them stop spraying and mowing so I can control what goes in my garden, what gets on our food crops. Which now is, well, every shrub, flower, plant, vine and tree in our side and back yard. Next year it will include our front yard. (with approval from our HOA of course ha!)<br />
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Anyways. I will print my list of annual plants next time and photo's of my basement plant setup.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-2505297969978202992011-02-21T19:17:00.000-08:002011-02-21T19:17:57.846-08:00My plant lists; dynamic accumulators, nitrogen fixing & nectary plants.<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Most of my plants serve many purposes. ALL of the plants I list are plants that I have seed for and am starting or like the skirret I have purchased a cloned plant because plants started from seed are oft inferior from the mother plant. I do not list plants already in the ground. That I will have to do later. Also I have a list of annuals that I am mixing in, edible like tomatoes that are not listed. I will list them in plant guilds later. Enjoy.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><ol><li><b>Dynamic accumulators.</b> These mine for minerals deep within the soil, and enrich the soil with which they have mined as they decompose. <i><b>DA</b></i></li>
<li><b>Nitrogen Fixing</b>. Basically they enrich the soil and those plants surrounding them with nitrogen. <b><i>N</i></b></li>
<li><b>Nectary, generalist and specialist.</b> Both Generalist and specalist plants muct be continnually in bloom spring through fall. Generalist is flower that all beneficial insects like bees, will come foraging for. Specialist is smaller flowers that parasitic wasps and their ilk will feed on.<b><i> GN SN</i></b></li>
<li><b>Confusers.</b> These are usually highly aromatic plants, that confuse the bad insects. They can't small the peaches when chives, onions and or mints are planted below. <b><i>C</i></b></li>
<li><b>Use.</b> Edible, tea, herb, fruit, nut and poultry forage.</li>
</ol><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Dynamic accumulators: </b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">German Chamomile - self seeding annual, tea, GN, DA</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">French sorrel - perennial, edible leaves, poultry forage, GN, DA</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Sorrel Profusion - perennial, edible leaves, poultry forage, DA</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Dwarf Comfrey, perennial, green manure, poultry forage, GN, DA</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Comfrey Bocking 14, perennial, green manure, poultry forage, GN, DA</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Nasturtium Black Velvet & Milkmaid, annual, edible seeds leaves and flowers, GN, DA</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Nitrogen fixing: </b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Lupine prairie & mix, perennial, not edible, GN, N</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Goumi - perennial, edible fruit, GN, N</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Siberian pea shrub - perennial, edible peas, poultry forage, GN, N</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Clover - perennial, living mulch, SN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Nectary generalist and specialist: </b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Sweet cicely - edible seed, herb, self seeding annual, SN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Yarrow - self seeding annual, not edible, SN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Hyssop - perennial herb, native, bee, butterfly and hummingbird attractor, C, GN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Bee balm - perennial herb, tea, bee and butterfly attractor, GN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Borage - self seeding annual, edible flower, medicinal, GN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Echinacea prarie & other - perennial, native, tea, medicinal, GN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Foxglove - self seeding annual, family heirloom, not edible, GN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Miners Lettuce Greens - self seeding annual, living mulch, edible leaf, GN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Lovage - perennial vegetable, SN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Skirret - perennial root vegetable, SN</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Good King Henry - perennial vegetable leaf & seeds, GN (minimal)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Lily White Seakale - perennial vegetable, GN (minimal)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Pest confuser: </b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Garlic Chives - perennial, family heirloom, edible leaves & flowers, GN, C</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Garlic - annual, family heirloom, edible, GN, C</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Ramps - perennial, edible, C</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Lemon Balm, perennial, herb, GN, C</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Lemon Mint, perennial, herb, GN, C</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Welsh Onion - self seeding annual, C</div><div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747117414141588086.post-15226442480352285362011-02-05T12:16:00.000-08:002011-02-05T12:19:34.171-08:00Food worries.I'm sick to death of worrying about food. Where it comes from, what is on it. What they grow it in. And the taste. If it's not meat, fruit or vegetables, I worry what they put in it. I'm a picky person, I'll admit it. I tried buying local. I want to support my local farms. It's more than being picky though, it's about sustainability. I want to provide for my family and have my extended family and neighbors benefit from my labors.<br />
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Farms. It it hurts knowing that the blocks of soil open to the sun & wind are losing more fertility than is being put in it. Chemical warfare, right down the street. We eat it. We breathe it. Sighs.<br />
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Annual beds are hard work. I'm all pumped up for the gardening season and go a good 2000% for the first month or so, but by the end of the season my crops are fending for themselves and sometimes, more often than not I don't even pick them. Nope my children get there first. Tomatoes, apples, peppers, peas and other precious vegetables and fruits all strewn about the lawn rotting for a week before I get myself outside to do what needed to be done.<br />
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So all annual beds? No. I want perennials, vegetables, herbs, fruits and nuts. There's perennial vegetables? Yes there is. Check out the book "Perennial Vegetables" By Eric Toensmeier. I will interplant some annuals with my perennials throughout the garden.<br />
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Goals of my garden;<br />
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<ul><li>self-sufficiency & sustainability</li>
<li>fresh food for our family</li>
<li>building soil fertility</li>
<li>provide privacy</li>
<li>provide a safe haven for our family, insects and local animal life</li>
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</div>I live on a fifth of an acre. My home is a rambler (single level house with a large foundation) and driveway is more than 70 feet long reaching to the back of my home which is where the garage is! So really my yard is much much smaller than that. I have a million neighbors and the ones that show on the left are on a hill that is 10 feet higher than my backyard. I have no privacy, and my backyard often floods (neighbors over-watering) or is as dry as the Sahara (because the slope of my backyard doesn't hold any precipitation).<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Key to my map</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ol><li>Damp full shade (Olive Green)</li>
<li>Very hot, dry, afternoon sun (Orange)</li>
<li>Wet, marshland (Green)</li>
<li>Rich well drained full sun (Light Green)</li>
<li>Very hot, full sun (Orange)</li>
<li>Rich, part sun, full shade [closer to fence] (Light Green)</li>
<li>Child swingset, kids area (Pink)</li>
<li>Prepped Food forest site with swales and berms (Yellow)</li>
<li>Fence (Red/Blue dashed line)</li>
<li>Property line (Blue line)</li>
<li>The lime green background is currently my lawn....</li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last fall I tore into a 20 by 30 foot area of my back yard, used a garden fork loosen the grass. I dug a 3 foot deep swale and built a berm. This is to help catch snow melt, rain and my neighbors over watering. I put a layer of cardboard, manure, garden scraps, soil, then a thick layer of straw over the entire area. This is just the first stage of the main backyard mini food forest. I will convert my sprinklers into drip irrigation. Spring. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's too much. Really. I can't do it alone. But have an idea. I'll host a garden party, feeding my peeps that want to help. Sending my helpers home with their very own perennial (vegetable) with plant care literature as a thanks for helping. Hopefully I can get neighbors, family, anyone interested in helping to do so.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have 14 yards of fine screened pesticide and chemical free manure/soil blend coming March. That is really my only cost (well plants, trees and seeds have a price tag too) as the cardboard, kitchen and other green waste (grass clippings, straw, news paper, rotten vegetables, worm compost) I've been collecting are all free. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About the garden party, or series of them if that is what it takes. Here is the labor that needs done; </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ol><li>Loosen the soil with a garden fork</li>
<li>Lengthen the swale and add more berms </li>
<li>Spread in layers and wet with hose in between;</li>
<ol><li>cardboard</li>
<li>soil/manure</li>
<li>grass clippings, wood chips, compost</li>
<li>hay</li>
</ol><li>Plant the plants, seeds and trees. </li>
</ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I'll add on my spreadsheets of plants, trees and bush guilds later. They have so much information on them, and are still incomplete. Feel free when I put them online to add comments in for any information that is missing. I will also add on my general layout of the food forest area, and more detailed plantings as I get them finished.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I will be starting seed this next month for my food forest, and garden party. I'll include some photo's, dates of the party and more info as I progress through the months.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0