Organic Gardening

GDOGC SEED AND PLANT EXCHANGE 2019

: Saturday, July 20, 2019

Believe it our not it's time to start saving those seeds for the GDOGC October 2019 Seed and Plant Exchange.
Here's a link with some guidelines for taking on that task:

https://www.planetnatural.com/seed-saving/

(All images courtesy Jacki Brewer)

Strawberry Fields Gomphrena

Bee Balm

Hesperaloe

Penstemmon

Basil

Echinacea - Purple Cone Flower

GrandPa Otts purple morning glory

KEYHOLE GARDENING

: Wednesday, May 08, 2019

This description is from Wikipedia:

A keyhole garden is a wide circular raised garden with a keyhole-shaped indentation on one side. The indentation allows gardeners to add uncooked vegetable scraps, greywater, and manure into a composting basket that sits in the center of the bed. In this way, composting materials can be added to the basket throughout the growing season to provide nutrients for the plants. The upper layer of soil is hilled up against the center basket so the soil slopes gently down from the center to the sides. Most keyhole gardens rise about one meter above the ground and have walls made of stone. The stone wall not only gives the garden its form, but helps trap moisture within the bed. Keyhole gardens originated in Lesotho and are well adapted to dry arid lands and deserts. In Africa they are positioned close to the kitchen and used to raise leafy greens such as lettuce, kale, and spinach; herbs; and root crops such as onions, garlic, carrots, and beets. Keyhole gardens are ideal for intensive planting, a technique in which plants are placed close together to maximize production. Plants with wide reaching root systems such as tomatoes and zucchini may not perform well in a keyhole garden.

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