New lazy 04 kitchen garden
published: 14/02/18, 16:30
Hello everyone and thank you to Didier for the altruism he shows and without which we would not be there.
Living in the 06, and therefore unable to practice regular gardening, I did not really know what I was looking for but what is extraordinary is that I found it here.
Indeed, it's been months that I seek a solution to cultivate my piece of land bought in the campaign Dignoise. So far no method has found favor in my eyes: too long, too tedious, too invasive, too expensive, I was almost to give up the idea.
Then I came across this video: "the lazy man's vegetable garden: Kézako?"
What is incredible is that, once again, I asked myself many questions without really knowing what I was looking for, by browsing these videos I found the answers to the questions that I asked myself, but also to those that, ignorantly, I did not ask myself.
My garden :
It is a rather clayey soil but it would be necessary that I test to know in what proportions (clay, sand, silt).
I have an approximate area of 150M² available for cultivation, a surface that has been exploited for a few years by my father-in-law who feasted us with his fresh fruit and vegetables. He practiced a traditional culture but without too much fertilizer or pesticides but plowing copiously the soil as he had been taught and still with the use of Bordeaux mixture at the feet of his vines.
(I'll come back to this subject, but this year the grape from the vine has been harvested to make wine.The result: a good organic red wine, trampled on the ground and pressed by hand, which has just been bottled!)
Facing north / south, unobstructed and slightly sloping to the south, this plot has returned to an almost natural state without anyone disturbing it for 12 years.
You understand that I had no desire to disturb again this biotope that took so long to recover from the aggression he suffered.
In fact life has recovered its rights and the fauna is abundant underground as above. Worms, slugs, carabids, gendarmes, moles, ladybugs, bees, bumblebees, birds (jays, tits, robins, buzzards, nightjars) and all the animals of the forest like dormice, hedgehogs (more and more rarer), badgers, wild boars, foxes and so on.
The only black spot at this table: I have a cultivated field (Wheat, sage and lavender) at 50m of my land. A ground plentifully plowed and enriched in short a poison for the bio. As proof of this, the water from my swimming pool, which turns green every July after the cut, has so many phosphates in the earth. The seaweed love the mixture: sun + water + phosphates (food). Except me, it's not seaweed that I want to cultivate
In short, after the discovery of this method (the phenoculture so) I began to dream of a kitchen garden on my plot.
So I bought a few bales of hay from a neighbor, and I "worked" to cover a reasonable area of land for my vegetable garden.
So here's a new lazy bouncy to the idea of doing as little as possible
Regards, Laurent.
PS: I would have liked to post pictures but it does not work either in IMG or URL tags !!! I do it wrong maybe, a charitable soul to tell me how to do it. However, I usually write my tags directly but there, even with the shortcuts "insert an image" or "insert a link" nothing helps.
Or is the image preview not available ??
Living in the 06, and therefore unable to practice regular gardening, I did not really know what I was looking for but what is extraordinary is that I found it here.
Indeed, it's been months that I seek a solution to cultivate my piece of land bought in the campaign Dignoise. So far no method has found favor in my eyes: too long, too tedious, too invasive, too expensive, I was almost to give up the idea.
Then I came across this video: "the lazy man's vegetable garden: Kézako?"
What is incredible is that, once again, I asked myself many questions without really knowing what I was looking for, by browsing these videos I found the answers to the questions that I asked myself, but also to those that, ignorantly, I did not ask myself.
My garden :
It is a rather clayey soil but it would be necessary that I test to know in what proportions (clay, sand, silt).
I have an approximate area of 150M² available for cultivation, a surface that has been exploited for a few years by my father-in-law who feasted us with his fresh fruit and vegetables. He practiced a traditional culture but without too much fertilizer or pesticides but plowing copiously the soil as he had been taught and still with the use of Bordeaux mixture at the feet of his vines.
(I'll come back to this subject, but this year the grape from the vine has been harvested to make wine.The result: a good organic red wine, trampled on the ground and pressed by hand, which has just been bottled!)
Facing north / south, unobstructed and slightly sloping to the south, this plot has returned to an almost natural state without anyone disturbing it for 12 years.
You understand that I had no desire to disturb again this biotope that took so long to recover from the aggression he suffered.
In fact life has recovered its rights and the fauna is abundant underground as above. Worms, slugs, carabids, gendarmes, moles, ladybugs, bees, bumblebees, birds (jays, tits, robins, buzzards, nightjars) and all the animals of the forest like dormice, hedgehogs (more and more rarer), badgers, wild boars, foxes and so on.
The only black spot at this table: I have a cultivated field (Wheat, sage and lavender) at 50m of my land. A ground plentifully plowed and enriched in short a poison for the bio. As proof of this, the water from my swimming pool, which turns green every July after the cut, has so many phosphates in the earth. The seaweed love the mixture: sun + water + phosphates (food). Except me, it's not seaweed that I want to cultivate
In short, after the discovery of this method (the phenoculture so) I began to dream of a kitchen garden on my plot.
So I bought a few bales of hay from a neighbor, and I "worked" to cover a reasonable area of land for my vegetable garden.
So here's a new lazy bouncy to the idea of doing as little as possible
Regards, Laurent.
PS: I would have liked to post pictures but it does not work either in IMG or URL tags !!! I do it wrong maybe, a charitable soul to tell me how to do it. However, I usually write my tags directly but there, even with the shortcuts "insert an image" or "insert a link" nothing helps.
Or is the image preview not available ??