Last Saturday was International Permaculture Day and a
gardening group I keep tabs on had an Open Garden and SSS (Swap, shuffle and
share – lovely!), so we dragged the kids off for an explore. One was not at all happy about it, then of
course said it was one of his best days ever – after he got to play with other
kids, enjoy some very yummy morning tea and visit a great playground on the way
home!
I really enjoyed
seeing, listening and visiting the permaculture garden. The blurb had said they had planted food forests
so I wanted to see it in action – and it didn’t disappoint. One of the best things though was showing
Michael. He mentioned that he hoped that
our food forest would look a bit “tidier”…lucky he said this to me, now I can
aspire to that – I was quite happy with a ‘free-form’ food forest, but we can
keep it tidier too. Win-win, we will
both be happy!
My best photos from
the morning show you fairies, frogs and flutterbys J.
All lovely ideas
for our place! And I had to look it up,
that is a Wanderer (Monarch) butterfly.
Back on the home
front, I am determined to get some good plants from seeds this season, so I
started some last week (on their correct moon day) and put them under little
greenhouses. Then today I have
transplanted the ones that have sprouted, doing it while they are still tiny and
planted deep as per Linda Woodrow’s advice (to minimise transplant shock – then
you plant them out in the garden when they are nice and big to give them an
even chance against bugs etc).
You can see the
transplanted ones on the bottom tray, then one tray that I am covering with a
cupcake carrier lid (works well J), and the top one is a hardware-store seed raising mini greenhouse (I
lucked out and got it for $3 from the op shop J).
That one certainly retains the moisture the most, to be expected really
as it is the only lid that ‘fits’.
Wish my little baby
plants some luck!
