I will be teaching classes this weekend in Viroqua at the Driftless Folk School
http://driftlessfolkschool.org/courses/low-maintenance-sustainable-gardening
INFILTRATING LANDSCAPES, Consulting provides Sustainable landscaping design, installation and related presentations and works with schools and progressive communitees to demonstrate low-maintenance gardening techniques. Motto: "Less Work--More Produce!" Submit your blog questions to: InfiltratingLandscapes@gmail.com
Friday, May 4, 2012
Happy Day!! Town's goal--grow their own food
Carrots
in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of
the town growing ALL its own veggies
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html#ixzz1tX3ar8qk
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html#ixzz1tX3ar8qk
Monday, March 26, 2012
Deep mulch garden rules!!! Primary and secondary
Goal is 8 to 12" of moist, decaying materials to plant into.
Primary Rules:
1--smother layer, the first year or following years, if you over more perennial weeds.
2--material must be 18 to 24" inches deep at install to have 8 to 12" inches of depth after wetting.
3--top 3 to 6 inches much be course and airy to not have weed seeds germinate.
Additional info:
Any dead plant material will work. Any livestock manure will work. Livestock manure is not required.
The order of the materials between the smother layer and the top 3 to 6 inches of course mulch--have no specific rules. (Look at my Compost handout and give some thought to Carbon and Nitrogen).
If you have weeds germinating--Pull then and get course mulch on top of where they are germinating. (See Mulch Mulch Mulch handout for more info.)
Oat, elm and maple seeds will germinate in a course layer--they will germinate on the sidewalk, almost. There will only be a couple flushes of them. Pull those and any others that germinate. Get a course layer of mulch on top of them and cut their light.
That is the basics. Follow this and you should have a 95% weed free garden.
Happy Gardening
Roger
Primary Rules:
1--smother layer, the first year or following years, if you over more perennial weeds.
2--material must be 18 to 24" inches deep at install to have 8 to 12" inches of depth after wetting.
3--top 3 to 6 inches much be course and airy to not have weed seeds germinate.
Additional info:
Any dead plant material will work. Any livestock manure will work. Livestock manure is not required.
The order of the materials between the smother layer and the top 3 to 6 inches of course mulch--have no specific rules. (Look at my Compost handout and give some thought to Carbon and Nitrogen).
If you have weeds germinating--Pull then and get course mulch on top of where they are germinating. (See Mulch Mulch Mulch handout for more info.)
Oat, elm and maple seeds will germinate in a course layer--they will germinate on the sidewalk, almost. There will only be a couple flushes of them. Pull those and any others that germinate. Get a course layer of mulch on top of them and cut their light.
That is the basics. Follow this and you should have a 95% weed free garden.
Happy Gardening
Roger
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
March 22, 6:30p.m., Reedsburg--Deep Mulch/Lasagna Gardening talk
I will be presenting "Deep Mulch/Lasagna Gardening" at the Reedsburg Library, March 22 in the evening, 6:30.
I am hoping for an interesting discussion after the slide show. Many people in this area installed deep mulch gardens last growing season and I am hoping to hear reports and questions from their experiences.
Hope to see you there.
Roger
I am hoping for an interesting discussion after the slide show. Many people in this area installed deep mulch gardens last growing season and I am hoping to hear reports and questions from their experiences.
Hope to see you there.
Roger
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The power of harvested water and MULCH
This is worth the time to watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohI6vnWZmk&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohI6vnWZmk&feature=player_embedded
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