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I am giddy with the implementations and applied permaculture techniques I am employing currently. The past 2 weeks have been so inspiring!
As you may or may not know by now, the couch grass is my fiercest veggie growing combatant, and after one year of displacing, digging, fighting, chopping and grunting my way through mounds of the stuff, I am testing now 6 or 7 different techniques to keep it at bay. Some have proven successful, others less notable, but all the same the opportunity to further experiments with various growing methods is great. The one I am most excited by is the raised polyculture beds! of which I have three, all of them are build using cedar mill scraps, with a black filter liner bottom.
Inspired by Ianto Evans polyculture outline found in Gaias Garden with the help of a great UK guide I found online, I have created two beds following very closly the above guides combinations of edible ground covers, salad crops, herbs, alliums, beans, and root veggies. The concept is simple; diversify the plants needs and yield, heights, and maturing times, to create a super intense very saturated growing area. One of the two beds is done in almost entirely all purple varieties; carrots, beans, lettuce, kale, basil, beets, all in striking purple hues. The other is made up of more traditional and heirloom varieties. The third bed I am calling my pickle polyculture, as it’s a combination of my favorite pickling veggies ; beans, beets, cucumbers, and carrots, heavy sown with dill and salad greens for good measure.
