Blue ([info]blueheron) wrote,
@ 2009-05-13 19:50:00
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Dug up about 4 litres of dandelions today. Still have to trim the hedge, put new mulch down, get some new plants planted and now the lawn. Oy.

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[info]blueheron
2009-09-10 04:31 pm UTC (link)
No, permaculture is an attempt to grow gardens in harmony with nature, using the natural settings, local plants and plants that work well together in order to repel disease/insects/etc.

All my beds are also raised. I don't know if "low tunnel" is perhaps the right translation from French. In French it is a "chenille" (caterpillar). Like this.

A high tunnel, in turn, is like this (only ours aren't quite so large!).

Frost is a royal PITA. I lost a lot of tomatoes this year to it -- first by planting about 1 week to early I lost about 150 tomato plants, and then 2 weeks ago we had a completely out of season frost overnight, which has damaged a lot of the tomatoes that we hadn't gotten around to harvesting yet. Grr.

What does the damage is the water freezing. That can be moisture on the plants (so don't water them if you are expecting frost, even if they are covered!), or the water in the plants (so moisture heavy fruits like tomatoes won't do well if they freeze and then thaw).

Some plants can do just fine with frost, so long as they are only harvested when they are thawed. Mache (Valerianella locusta) is a good example of that, and something I am thinking of putting in my (single) covered raised beds this year.

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