PDC LESSON 2.33 DESIGN - MULCH BASKET / SAC GARDEN

 

PERMACULTURE COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY

PDC LESSON 2.33 DESIGN - MULCH BASKET / SAC GARDEN

Mulch Basket Garden

 

1.     Dig a hole in the ground the place a wire mesh cylinder on top of fresh soil, organic matter and keep filling the basket with compost, soil, old manure, worm castings etc. Grow vines and also tomato plants.

2.    Place a wheel on top of the mulch basket garden and grow vines over it.

3.    You can also put potatoes in the SACK or old car tire, if they then grow leaves, you put a second tire over it and always fill it with soil up to the lower leaf. You can repeat these two or three times up to a height of one meter and thus harvest a lot of potatoes in a small area. You must make sure that the potatoes don't start to bloom and keep refilling the soil down to the next leaf.

At the beginning it is always important to consider how they work and with what tools. I mean, are you working by hand, then you need 90 cm wide beds, or are you working with a small machine; then they need wider beds to pull the weeds between the beds with the machine. Then it depends on how much water you have for your garden and how big it is. If they just don't have enough water, then it is enough that they create narrow beds and possibly lay a drip line along this one bed and the plants there. As already described, it makes sense to harvest tomatoes from both sides, as does peppers. Lettuce or spinach can be planted on other beds since the bed is harvested completely. There are not only parts to harvest that are ripe, but the whole bed at once.

Always remember the worst time in your growing season so you have enough water for that period, or you can hose down enough water, otherwise all the work is for naught. The plants need the most water during their final phase, which is usually in summer.

Text from the roots, Elisabeth Ferkonia (Aus.) PDC studied with Bill Mollison,  





 

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