Hi Folks,
I have an outdoor "installation" that I have been hacking for about 7 years now. It is located adjacent to a shallow pond fed by a small stream. It can flood or go bone dry so it's hard to pick a good spot that gets just the right amount of water. Right now it's high and dry, but in years past I got lucky lower down with favorable rain and water level. They are 15g airpots stacked on 25g pots. The bottom pots are filled with coarse coir chips. The 15g pots have wonder soil and coir and some homemade vermicompost and perlite. I used coir because it's a guerrilla site obviously and its easy to pack in and expands to fill a lot of pots. It's not the richest stuff obviously. This year it was flooded early, then no rain all summer. The seeds were dropped by a seeded mother that I left out last year. All died after transplanting (to space them out) and lack of rain/high location. On my last visit a few weeks ago I mixed in the vermicompost and dropped cover crop seeds for the winter. In the late spring/early summer I'll plant a new crop.
The goal is to get a (more or less) self-sustaining garden going here using organic techniques, perhaps even no-till once the soil has built up. If anybody has any ideas on how to improve the current state of the soil and keep it going strong year-to-year I'm very interested to hear your thoughts.
Cheers!
I have an outdoor "installation" that I have been hacking for about 7 years now. It is located adjacent to a shallow pond fed by a small stream. It can flood or go bone dry so it's hard to pick a good spot that gets just the right amount of water. Right now it's high and dry, but in years past I got lucky lower down with favorable rain and water level. They are 15g airpots stacked on 25g pots. The bottom pots are filled with coarse coir chips. The 15g pots have wonder soil and coir and some homemade vermicompost and perlite. I used coir because it's a guerrilla site obviously and its easy to pack in and expands to fill a lot of pots. It's not the richest stuff obviously. This year it was flooded early, then no rain all summer. The seeds were dropped by a seeded mother that I left out last year. All died after transplanting (to space them out) and lack of rain/high location. On my last visit a few weeks ago I mixed in the vermicompost and dropped cover crop seeds for the winter. In the late spring/early summer I'll plant a new crop.
The goal is to get a (more or less) self-sustaining garden going here using organic techniques, perhaps even no-till once the soil has built up. If anybody has any ideas on how to improve the current state of the soil and keep it going strong year-to-year I'm very interested to hear your thoughts.
Cheers!