Mia used up almost an entire sketch book with her drawings of the plants and flowers we saw.
They have a sample garden where you can apparantly feed a family of 3 for a year. Our aims aren't that ambitious, never the less we would like to be more self sufficient. Here is the garden:
There are espalliered apple trees all along the back fence, a large lemon tree and a couple of nectarines. Four large garden beds too. We were amazed to see that they use no mulch and the soil felt spongy to touch. We asked about it and he said with 25 years of building up the soil with compost they no longer need mulch.
We also joined the Diggers Club and bought lots of packages of seeds. The Diggers seeds are all open pollination varieties (the plants will produce useable seeds rather than sterile ones like the big commercial sellers make. And many of the seeds are heirloom varieties, chosen for strong growth, drought tolerance and tasty food rather than being chosen for long periods of cold storage. We look forward to our first crops of these beautiful looking plants! The website for those interested is www.diggers.com.au
4 comments:
Very interesting also the photoe
of Jordan cONNOR & mia Nana
Wow, very interesting hearing about the sustainability. I to am not as ambitious, but am looking forward to spending less at the farmers markets :)
Sounds like a great day.
Fancy not needing to mulch anymore! Wow, that's certainly inspiration to keep up the mulch now if in 25yrs you'll get such healthy soil. :)
Were there only four garden beds for the vegies?
Yes in that particular bed there were 4 beds. They were quite big though. They also had a partierre and a test garden and a garden for growing the food for the cafe.
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