Great things start small. From nothing to something. (creating) The circle herb/flower/veg garden 2017. It used to be a bare, sandy, weed(couch grass)infested patch of land. Covered for a while to kill weeds and the rest dug out manually. See progress.
The usual herbs like lavender, thyme, rosemary, oregano, sage, chamomile, chives, parsley and mint were grown. Flowers included marigolds, poppies, chamomile, lavender, borage, cosmos which were great for the insects, bees and other wildlife in general. A few vegetables/greens grown were lettuce, chard, and runner beans which tbh were not the most exciting of things for me to grow and eat, but nevertheless. It was beautiful, and served good purpose. That's what matters.
The usual herbs like lavender, thyme, rosemary, oregano, sage, chamomile, chives, parsley and mint were grown. Flowers included marigolds, poppies, chamomile, lavender, borage, cosmos which were great for the insects, bees and other wildlife in general. A few vegetables/greens grown were lettuce, chard, and runner beans which tbh were not the most exciting of things for me to grow and eat, but nevertheless. It was beautiful, and served good purpose. That's what matters.
Paths were dug out for beds to be created, also mulched with straw and then woodchip to prevent weeds. Beds needed a lot of irrigation, compost and mulching in most areas due to the really sandy soil but also luckily most of what we planted here, especially the herbs and flowers were well able tolerate dry sandy soils and drought conditions. It was quite productive and fairly easy to manage. What else? It was beautiful, it was circular, diverse, quite therapeutic and enclosed to work in compared to open straight lines. Would it be commercially functional? Not sure, unless you had a couple of circles and many hands lol and it were in more of a permaculture setting. I'm quite biased towards the circle or a few little gardens/enclosed spaces for different things rather than one open field. No to monoculture though. We ought to try as much as possible to imitate nature.
For a Next time herb garden which I don't know when that would be, I would put in loads of ginger and turmeric- lovely leaves and flower.. and plant, loads of African basil,, aloe Vera, lemongrass, garlic, efo tete(amaranth greens) and even bitterleaf.. and so !any easy grow edible greens and veg.Etc what else? We will see. Im still looking out for what native tropical pure flowers and plants exactly that are good for insects and wildlife in general.
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