Shanti Garden
Design drawing of Shanti Garden
The design incorporates a number of Permaculture principles such as swales, rainwater retention, minimal tillage, horizontal and vertical tessellated plant, placement, stacking and edge effect.
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April 23rd
It’s been raining on and off all month which is normal for April but it has been too muddy to move the mulch to the garden site till Thursday April 21st.
Family and friends joufully working together.
Katie, her mom and dad, her friend Chelsea and I wheel barrowed 6 PU truck loads of KC mulch from the strawberry bed in front of the house around back and up the hill. We had to stock the mulch on the future site of Katie’s strawberries till it was dry enough to move it around back. The distance is the length of a football field, whoh, still aching from that. We can only get the mulch on Saturdays at the Kansas City Brush drop off on Chateau. They grind up all the leaves, brush and limbs from KC residents yards, Good stuff. Chelsie Wasam from K State Extension tested the mulch and said it was perfect for vegetables. That verifies my own experience over the last five years using the mulch. On Saturday morning I tilled up the swales, yea I have a tiller but I normally only us it for terra forming. Katie, Dan, Kerri, Rick, Toby, Gina, Nadia, Chelsea, Denise and I spread the newspapers and covered them with about two inches of leaves and two inches of the mulch. We finished the day’s labor just as it started to rain. We completed four swales and five keyhole beds. I figure about seventy percent done. It rained all day Sunday and Monday I checked and Yea minimal washout.
The swales were doing their job of collecting the runoff and slowing the flow down the hill and into the sewer system. I will start planting Saturday morning, hum broccoli, cauliflower, onions, endive, chard, squash and carrots. Hum what else is in my bag?
Katie and Dan Warren's In Your Yard CSA Garden near Weatherby Lake.
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