Fenced garden with started plants - Beltane May 1
"Beltane marked the beginning of the pastoral summer season, when livestock were driven out to the summer pastures.
Rituals were held at that time to protect them from harm, both natural
and supernatural, and this mainly involved the "symbolic use of fire". There were also rituals to protect crops, dairy products and people, and to encourage growth."
Earlier in the spring, we added fresh sheep manure mixed with straw from a neighbouring farm as a topping for the soil on our beds. To keep the marauding island deer out of the garden, we quickly built a fence with scavenged materials. We used t-bar posts and page wire from our old homestead along the rear of the garden, which will also serve as a pea fence. We bought some used fish nets in Sointula village and used young hemlock and cedar poles from our forest for a fence.
This excellent gate was laying around our yard maybe from a previous garden so it forms a nice entrance.
The 103 garlic bulbs that we transplanted from our old homestead last fall are growing very well.
We also transplanted raspberries and strawberries from our old homestead.
Some of the strawberries are already flowering!
We transplanted about a dozen perennial Egyptian walking onions from our old homestead too.
We bought yellow cooking onion starts from West Coast seeds and planted 313 sets. It's important to keep the soil moist so they will be irrigated using Tyvek drip irrigation from Irrigro.
Using peas saved from our old homestead we planted hundreds of peas (about 10 per inch) along the page wire fence and t-bar fence. The retaining wall with big rocks might add heat from all the thermal mass.
Finally, since we have fenced a limited area so far this year, potatoes will be grown intensively in pots this year.
By the end of May, the garden will be filled with hundreds of seedling that are now maturing under full-spectrum fluorescent light in a shelving unit along our living room window. We will cover the cardboard with shavings from a neighbouring sawmill. We are also planning an orchard with 20 trees inter-planted with berries in the bottom part of the field.
Earlier in the spring, we added fresh sheep manure mixed with straw from a neighbouring farm as a topping for the soil on our beds. To keep the marauding island deer out of the garden, we quickly built a fence with scavenged materials. We used t-bar posts and page wire from our old homestead along the rear of the garden, which will also serve as a pea fence. We bought some used fish nets in Sointula village and used young hemlock and cedar poles from our forest for a fence.
This excellent gate was laying around our yard maybe from a previous garden so it forms a nice entrance.
The 103 garlic bulbs that we transplanted from our old homestead last fall are growing very well.
We also transplanted raspberries and strawberries from our old homestead.
Some of the strawberries are already flowering!
We transplanted about a dozen perennial Egyptian walking onions from our old homestead too.
We bought yellow cooking onion starts from West Coast seeds and planted 313 sets. It's important to keep the soil moist so they will be irrigated using Tyvek drip irrigation from Irrigro.
Using peas saved from our old homestead we planted hundreds of peas (about 10 per inch) along the page wire fence and t-bar fence. The retaining wall with big rocks might add heat from all the thermal mass.
Finally, since we have fenced a limited area so far this year, potatoes will be grown intensively in pots this year.
By the end of May, the garden will be filled with hundreds of seedling that are now maturing under full-spectrum fluorescent light in a shelving unit along our living room window. We will cover the cardboard with shavings from a neighbouring sawmill. We are also planning an orchard with 20 trees inter-planted with berries in the bottom part of the field.
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