Out In The Garden and The Reference Shelf Leigh on 22 May 2010
When I plant trees or shrubs or even certain rows of garden veggies, I want to immediately cover the ground with mulch for a variety of reasons. Mulched soil is less prone to compaction by rain. Compaction by foot traffic is reduced by keeping walkers back a bit (as long as they know the never-step-on-beds-or-mulch [...]
Out In The Garden Leigh on 23 Mar 2010
Comfrey Emerging Last Week
I’m working on my Edible Landscaping presentation for this Saturday, so I’m all into useful plants. Outside (once our surprise foot of snow started melting yesterday) I saw comfrey shoots starting to poke up! While not exactly edible, I just love comfrey. Me, the permaculture folks and the herbalists all love comfrey. [...]
Miscellany Leigh on 28 Jan 2010
Northwest Arkansas is preparing for another ice storm nearly to the day of the anniversary of the catastrophic ice storm we had in 2009. It’s predicted to be much less severe though, and that’s an anxiety-ridden comfort. Such is our fate I guess now that the rain/ice/snow boundaries of the country have shifted a [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 22 Nov 2009
The situation: We have an over-abundance of oak leaves every Fall. We have a shortage of good topsoil on this rocky Ozark hilltop year-round. How to use one problem to solve the other? Why, chickens of course.
You may have heard me mention my great admiration for Permaculture, the system of designing landscapes, farms, homesteads, gardens—nearly [...]
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