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ysabetwordsmithThese pictures are from the left side of the Charleston Food Forest. See Part 1 Right Side.
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ysabetwordsmithToday we visited the Charleston Food Forest. I took pictures and rescued some plants that were growing in the paths so they don't get trampled. These pictures are mostly from the right side. See Part 2 Left Side.
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What I'm Growing
Nov. 12th, 2024 06:33 pmysabetwordsmithAlmost everything in the Charleston Food Forest is something I'm growing, would like to grow, or at least recognize from edible plant studies. So I thought it would be fun to break that down, listed in approximate spatial order moving through the lists of pictures ...
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ysabetwordsmithThis concludes the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back, Part 3: Left Back.)
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ysabetwordsmithThis continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back.)
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ysabetwordsmithThis continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front.)
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ysabetwordsmithMy partner Doug spotted this place recently, and today we explored the Charleston Food Forest and its plants. (See Part 2 Right Back, Part 3: Left Back, Part 4 Left Front, and What I'm Growing.) It's a skinny rectangle, and not all that big. If you cut it in half and lined the halves up as a square, then it would fit in a typical town yard around here. It has a LOT of plants in it, thoughtfully chosen and arranged. I wouldn't call it a food forest myself, because while it has multiple layers, it is really short. I doubt anything is more than about 10-12 feet tall. That's sensible in a garden this small. But when I think of a forest, I'm thinking one that at least has a canopy layer. Mine has emergents, the main canopy, the subcanopy, and then all the shorter stuff as shown here (understory trees, shrubs, herbs, groundcovers, roots, fungi, vines, etc.). So I'd probably call this one a permaculture garden. (See the layers of a food forest and permaculture design principles.) I didn't spot actual guilds, but everything is arranged in logical order. Someone has done an amazing job setting this up in the space available.
The really subversive thing: it's not a garden to be looked at, it's a garden to be used, for free, by everyone. A little slice of Terramagne, or Turtle-Island-That-Was, especially since it's located right next to a government building with several human service offices. So I helped myself to some seeds. Sure, I might come back later for things to eat. But what I am really interested in is gathering things from here that I can grow at home.
I could only think of two things I'd really add to make this even better:
1) A Little Free Seed / Plant Library so folks could swap things.
2) A community bulletin board, chiefly for people to post their Have / Want lists for trading, but could also be used to announce things like plant swaps or sales, garden open houses, etc. There is an Events section on the back side of the welcome sign, but it's under glass.
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The really subversive thing: it's not a garden to be looked at, it's a garden to be used, for free, by everyone. A little slice of Terramagne, or Turtle-Island-That-Was, especially since it's located right next to a government building with several human service offices. So I helped myself to some seeds. Sure, I might come back later for things to eat. But what I am really interested in is gathering things from here that I can grow at home.
I could only think of two things I'd really add to make this even better:
1) A Little Free Seed / Plant Library so folks could swap things.
2) A community bulletin board, chiefly for people to post their Have / Want lists for trading, but could also be used to announce things like plant swaps or sales, garden open houses, etc. There is an Events section on the back side of the welcome sign, but it's under glass.
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Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Mar. 24th, 2024 11:57 pmysabetwordsmithI took some pictures around the yard today. These are from the house yard and the south lot.
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Roses and Peppers
Feb. 27th, 2023 05:52 pmapachefirecatI'm looking for any advice I can get on growing my first roses and peppers (starting with bell, but hoping to add jalapeno or other such before too long). A friend pointed me this way. :)
Herbs for an Omelette
Jun. 21st, 2022 07:39 pmysabetwordsmithI picked herbs from my yard to make an omelette. :D My post includes a link to my earlier omelette recipe for anyone who's into that.
Yard Pictures: Prairie Garden
May. 14th, 2022 11:06 pmysabetwordsmithI took some pictures today, mostly of places where I'm trying to grow wildflowers.
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spring garden
Oct. 11th, 2019 10:52 amtielanIt is the middle of spring, and everything is growing.
( well, nearly everything: the chickens aren't... )
( well, nearly everything: the chickens aren't... )
Speaking of the chooks, they're spending most of their days out in the front run, are laying, and quite happy to get in yo' face.
Interestingly, there's a section of the chook run which abuts the neighbour's yard beyond the fenceline, and I've noticed the neighbours have started throwing some of their kitchen wastes into the chook pen. Which, they're from out rural way, used to be farm folk, so I understand, so I trust they're not trying to poison my chooks. I've had a bit of a chat to them about the chickens when they first moved in (because I was worried about the noise they might make) but they've been pretty good about the occasional noisy clucking that takes place when one of the chooks wants something and isn;t getting it. (Hainan chicken is particularly noisy when she's bored.)
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The big project I want to do in the next couple of months (And really, I should have done it the last couple of weeks) is to get some bed edges in, made from heat-treated wooden pallets. But I put it off and off and off and it would be better to get the bed edges in sooner rather than later...
Ugh. Maybe I'll do them next winter...
sylvaineAlways plenty of chats about growing carrots in bottles, so here’s how I sow them.They’re fun and great for getting non gardeners (of any age) enthused about trying them. Of course there are plenty of other methods of growing them, so please share your tips & hints too 😃🥕🥕🥕🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/Wo0XIigcLz
— Horti Hugo (Hugh_Cassidy) March 2, 2019
