guildfordcycads

So I have a garden in the middle of my backyard and as I’m learning permaculture I’m adjusting it and making it better, maybe I will make it a small food forest. Behind my yard there is a canal and lots of plants grow in between my chain pink fence (that it’s barely visible) and the canal, my idea is to stop mowing a 1 or 2 yards from the fence and let any plant grow without doing anything to it as I would like to have a small strip wild inside my yard. The city sometimes cuts everything down, it doesn’t happen often but this way if it happens again the strip on my yard will be a safe space for wildlife, this is my reasoning: Is this a good idea? Does it make sense? Will it do anything?

Dans mon jardin dans le lot et Garonne

I’ve been scrounging cardboard from the neighborhood, this is one night of gathering.

Going to take about a week to gather and cover everything.

811 came out and marked everything, and I discovered our irrigation system runs right through the middle of the plot! We can hook up a drip irrigation system directly when we’re ready with little effort.

A neighbor contributed a black compost bin, I built a pallet palace myself from pallets destined for a landfill.

The neighbors are starting to participate!

Test plot of lettuce, arugula, and broccoli are sprouting!

Signing up for a chip drop this week/next to cover the area.

I’ve been pulling a trash bag full of grocery store scraps daily and adding to the compost pile… running out of browns! The two Starbucks within one block have been unending sources of coffee grounds.

I’m seriously contemplating composting the entire area after the chip drop… but the neighbors might not take kindly to a big ass pile of rot. Maybe I’ll just keep adding copious amounts of coffee grounds to the wood chips and see what happens.

Wish me luck!