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Category: ‘Agro Forestry & Forest Gardening’
Some photos of the jungle / Algumas fotos da selva
The gardens are going crazy. Peaches dropping by the 100s, mushrooms, wild pumpkins, all is a mass of growth and life. We are just starting to get courgettes with peppers and tomatoes not far behind, adding to the wide variety of crops we’ve already been eating.
Os jardins estão enlouquecendo. Pêssegos largando pelo 100s, cogumelos, [...]
My Permaculture Garden / Meu Jardim da Permacultura
The garden is so green in May, and every year looks more like a jungle!
O jardim é tão verde em maio, e cada ano mais parece uma selva!
I have not planted a lot of summer crops out yet. Some of the raised beds are still full of broad beans, lupins, poppies and other plants that [...]
Water Barriers for Trees
Here’s a video from theproducegarden – it’s pretty much what we do when we plant trees to reduce the amount of watering we’d have to do while the tree gets established.
And here’s some photos of young trees planted here. The ridge of earth is very clear, and on sloping ground that ridge is higher on [...]
Surrounded by Beauty
While watering some trees up in the forest, this morning, it struck me – just how beautiful so much of the world around us is. The photos speak for themselves.
And the fantastic views from here. We live surrounded by extravagant beauty.
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Monkey Puzzles, Self-Seeded Olives and Oak Trees
Almost all of the monkey puzzle (Araucaria araucana) nuts that I put in a seed tray last autumn have rooted. Putting them into a tray immediately upon receipt works much better than waiting for the spring, even though they sat through some frosts.
The acorns that were planted in the same tray have done really [...]
Robinia Pseudoacacia & Californian Poppies
A couple of years ago we bought an ‘acacia’ sapling from market – it may well have been the yearly tree market near Tabua – which has grown very fast, is obviously very drought tolerant, as we never water it, and is now flowering.
But, this winter I bought some seeds of the Black Locust, [...]
