The Flatrock Food Forest EP4: Sheet Mulching and Wood Chips.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- We're planning a FOOD FOREST!
The next stage of the project involves sheet mulching and burying the sheet mulch in wood chips. This will (hopefully) push the current soil base system towards fungal dominance. Moving all of this material would be super hard without a tractor...So we rented one! Work smarter...Not harder!
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Hello David. I heard you on The Signal and decided to look you up. I am excited that I have discovered your channel. I am starting a Permaculture Food Forest at my property in St. Phillips. I just received my orders of bare root plants. I'm excited to see what has happened in your property since you began. So glad to find someone here in NL doing this.
Angela, thanks for following! Food forests and perennial spaces are a great addition to you food production arsenal. They have the ability to grow and change. Thing about it as a 5 dimensional space. Length width and height as well as time in season as well as evolution through years. Each year will be different. Don’t be afraid to overplant at a high density. Nature would do the same…but this gives you some of the control. They say that about 1/3 of you plants should be nitrogen fixers in a northern climate. Think lupins, goumi, sea buckthorn and maybe even alders. I tend to pair lupins with comfrey and walking onions to form an initial guild with my trees. More plants can be added as you propagate more. Hopefully I’ll post a video soon about this. So many of my projects need a video update! Thanks again!
@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Thanks for the suggestions. I will definately follow your advice. I know where to get some lupins. I have ordered a few Sea Buckthorns trees. I have some Walking onions growing in my garden now that I can transplant. Are the alders the regular ones that grow everywhere around here? Where do you suggest I get the Comfrey and the Goumi?
@@AngelaSpasiuk-eb4bh yes alders are nitrogen fixers, a great source of nitrogen and biomass in general. gout can be purchased at whiffletree. comfrey is tricky. you want the sterile type that doesn't produce seed. I have bocking 4. I originally purchased from whiffletree so they may have some. I have propagated 50-60 from the original 10 that I ordered. easy to propagate from crown cuttings and root cuttings. some consider lupins a nuisance...and they can be, the key is to chop and drop the flowers before the seed matures. or you can just leave it. nature has a way of self regulating. I planted a load of them in the first year. so many that about 30% fo them had a massive aphid infestation. nothing else was affected just the lupins. those attacked by aphids didn't come back. nature regulated the system for me.