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May. 25th, 2009 11:21 pmA picture of me and my little red wheelbarrow working on one of the sheet mulched beds.
Rialian took this picture about 3 weeks ago. That bed was the first one we sheet mulched so we could plant some potatos. We planted rows of corn to the left of the Potato Peninsula (TM) (the picture shows bare ground in that area - it's been weeded and there are now tiny corn plants coming up).
Three weeks later (now) we've sheet mulched keyhole beds that occupy about a third of the garden area, and we put diverse plants in each of the beds. Today we planted lavender, sorrel, basil, two tobacco plants, lemon verbena, a walking onion, more marigolds, and something called "Scram Plant" which is supposed to repel rabbits (in case they get past the electric fence and the mesh fence). We'll see if that works.
The asparagus is putting out tiny flowers and seems to be doing very well. The vegetables look like maybe they don't like the sheet mulching. Herbs seem to love sheet mulching and are thriving and taking over the place, but the vegetables seem to like bare ground. Weird.
The e-fence is now live. Or at least the top five rows of wire are live. The bottom three aren't. If any grass touches the wires, it will ground out - so those wires are not connected at the moment until we can weed-whack the greenery under the bottom wire. Thus, rabbits can still get in. We will put landscaping fabric under the bottom wire to keep anything from growing there. The lowest wire is maybe two inches from the ground.
I actually tried to clip the grass manually, which was probably a mistake - I'm sure there were ticks in the grass, not to mention poison ivy. I'm already feeling rather itchy -- I'm sure I caught plenty of poison ivy, and these plants don't know me very well yet. My rockville poison ivy patch is nice to me, but the poison ivy out here acts sort of like the bees...
Rialian took this picture about 3 weeks ago. That bed was the first one we sheet mulched so we could plant some potatos. We planted rows of corn to the left of the Potato Peninsula (TM) (the picture shows bare ground in that area - it's been weeded and there are now tiny corn plants coming up).
Three weeks later (now) we've sheet mulched keyhole beds that occupy about a third of the garden area, and we put diverse plants in each of the beds. Today we planted lavender, sorrel, basil, two tobacco plants, lemon verbena, a walking onion, more marigolds, and something called "Scram Plant" which is supposed to repel rabbits (in case they get past the electric fence and the mesh fence). We'll see if that works.
The asparagus is putting out tiny flowers and seems to be doing very well. The vegetables look like maybe they don't like the sheet mulching. Herbs seem to love sheet mulching and are thriving and taking over the place, but the vegetables seem to like bare ground. Weird.
The e-fence is now live. Or at least the top five rows of wire are live. The bottom three aren't. If any grass touches the wires, it will ground out - so those wires are not connected at the moment until we can weed-whack the greenery under the bottom wire. Thus, rabbits can still get in. We will put landscaping fabric under the bottom wire to keep anything from growing there. The lowest wire is maybe two inches from the ground.
I actually tried to clip the grass manually, which was probably a mistake - I'm sure there were ticks in the grass, not to mention poison ivy. I'm already feeling rather itchy -- I'm sure I caught plenty of poison ivy, and these plants don't know me very well yet. My rockville poison ivy patch is nice to me, but the poison ivy out here acts sort of like the bees...
