Nirvana Biodynamics

The first thing you notice about my home vegetable garden is that it is well fenced to keep poultry and dogs out. The large banana passionfruit vine is a good deterrent as they can’t see through and see what they are missing. As you enter there is always a vast array of vegies, some growing, some ready for the table and some going to seed to ensure future crops. Established in 1983 the annual  garden is 10 x 18 m and includes a tool shed (in need of new door!) propagation area, cold frames and its own compost area. THIS VEGETABLE GARDEN IS DESIGNED TO PRODUCE A STEADY SUPPLY OF TOP QUALITY PRODUCE WITH MINIMUM WORK. THE BASIC FEATURES ARE : *PERMANENT RAISED BEDS. The soil from pathways was used to build beds. Each bed is enclosed to keep soil in. The width of the bed ensures easy reach. GARDEN BEDS SHOULD NEVER BE WALKED ON!!!! *VEGETABLES ARE GROWN IN SOIL ENRICHED WITH OUR OWN BIO DYNAMIC COMPOST. * EAC...

It takes many seasons to perfect your own planting guide to suit your unique garden conditions. Over the years I have accumulated a large collection of notebooks, computer notes and more importantly ‘neck top’ info to call on but there are many ways to make it a simple part of life. So today while tiding up in the garden I had an idea to combine a planting guide and a system of reusing plant labels. I use plant tags c ut from plastic yogurt containers when I plant seeds so as to identify the species, variety and month planted. When the tags are no longer needed I’d put them in a box – with the idea of reusing them …but.. There are so many to go through I never bothered, just made new ones. Within 15 minutes of the idea I had fashioned together a system of pockets on my trusty sewing machine. (Actually most of the time was removing the junk from the sewing table) I now have 12 pockets so all I need to do is put back the tags in their months as indicated on the tag. As plants success...