Growing Inputs for Self Sufficientcy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Growing in the desert is a challenge! We have to fight for everything we produce. With time, and the right plants to start with, we can rush land succession and help mature the ecosystem.
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I'd transplant them ,but thats me. Glad to see the little goat be accepted. Such a great bounty and beauty at your place. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Yes you should transplant them, so beautiful when they bloom
I see the diversity you're growing. Was able to make Comfrey, mullein, and is that honeysuckle near the brick? I bet it's beautiful in Summer.
Good eye. I have a lot growing there. Have a few types of cherries, few varieties of Comfrey, a few lavender, a few rose bushes, a few texas rangers, that is honeysuckle at the rear, a few bananas, a blackberry vine, and other odds and ends I'm forgetting.
You should transplant them
Very good. The leaves from my potted bananas in greenhouse were going to my worms. Gonna switch to sheep.
A more important factor of the mulch is that it provides protection and a habitat with constant conditions for the micro organisms. So yes the bio mass eventually provides nutrients, but those nutrients can only be released by the micro organisms. Without the micro organisms the bio mass would simply fossilize, or dry up and break apart to dust.
If you live in a desert climate it doesn't hurt to leave some of the mulch in larger pieces. It helps to keep more heat away from the earth surface, so there is less heat transfer to the soil. Which is highly beneficial for the micro organisms because there will be less water evaporation, and more constant temperatures, and enough aeration, and so on. When this chopping and dropping is repeated on a regular bases it makes the earth surface more fluffy if you will. And fluffy is very very good. You want the soil to feel bouncy under your feet. If you look at the last update from Geoff Lawton you can see that as he walks through his garden that the earth surface is covered with small twigs. They constantly refresh the mulch. But all those accumulated twigs give the micro organisms protection, air, it keeps the soil moist, it regulates the soil temperature very well, and eventually it makes the soil very bouncy and fluffy and very aerated with very contante temperature and moisture levels deeper in the soil.
And more micro organisms equals more food and water for the plants. Study and farm the micro organisms and you will have better yields with everything that grows above the ground.
P.S. let the plants grow, they seem to be happy there. And if you take them when they are bigger they provide more mulch 👍
They seed so easily Id just pull them as a weed or let the goats eat them. Mine love hollyhocks.