FNL July Featured Garden

Before

• Garden prior to excavation
• Lot’s of "weeds" (foxtails, wild lettuce, dandelions, horehound, & mallows)












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After

• Excavated swales to collect water, vary topology, & drain upper rim
•Mulched 4”-8” deep over existing vegetation
• Basil planted nearby tomatoes is said to improve their taste
• Noticed that the bees are very much attracted to the flowering basil
• Artichoke, tomatoes, basil, oranges, and grapefruit tree

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Banana Circle Patch

• Elaeagnus is a nitrogen fixer & has edible berries
• Strawberry & Borage are companion plants
• Pole beans are climbing up fruit trees
• Mint, peppers, beans, strawberry's, borage, elaeagnus bush, bananas, guavas, peach, pomegranites, blackberry, raspberry, nasturtium, sugarcane, beans












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Corn Patch

• 3 sisters garden bed (corn, squash, beans)
• Also potatoes, sweet potatoes, sunchokes, sunflowers, orich, amaranth, cherimoya, & apple tree
• Fence made from Arundo donax (invasive that grows in river beds) & tied with agave leaves
• Wild lettuce left to flower to attract benefitials











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Sheet Mulching in Progress

•Recharged water in soil
•Covered with cardboard
•Topped with 6" of mulch
•Can see pallet compost bin on upper left
•Potato plant on right













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Potato "Barrel"

• Potatoes growing in metal trashcan with holes
• Covering with mulch as it grows until it reaches top of can















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Compost tea

• brewing in trashcan w/ bubbler
• used to fertilize garden