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@nature@Collapsible.Systems

gardener/horticulturalist inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka, Bhaskar Save, Ruth Stout, and indigenous people.

My profile picture shows Japanese clover surrounded by dead leaves, and my header picture shows a few flowering carnivorous plants and a few mostly-empty plant containers with mulch from earlier this year, 2023.

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I was looking at the spacing instructions for the herbs I planted and noticed spacing instructions for the crops I planted, and I decided that I could start spacing each type of seed out as recommended while still putting all of the seeds in one bed and letting them choose they favorite places to grow instead of me deciding each bed is a monocrop, a couple companions, a crop and a nursing crop, or even a 3 sisters area. @gardening

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Broke out the grass sickle today for a big clump of grass and quickly learned to cut up some roots as well with minimal damage to the soil. Seemed quicker than the scissors. ✂️ I pulled on the grass or their creeping stems and hacked at the tiny roots.

Leaving Virginia Creepers because they are native. Their berries feed many other animals but poison us, and their flowers provide nectar. They have a perennial twig that stays in the ground and green parts that grow back by the middle of spring.

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I was only able to sow my nitrogen-fixing food crops before a thunderstorm told me to get the f indoors: bush Lima beans, snap bush beans, and snap pole beans. I made sure the beans were spread out. I still have cowpeas and all the rest of my crops.

Virginia Creeper is also highly flammable, so it's not a great idea to leave it near a home. I bet dry leaves are highly flammable, too, so WATCH OUT!

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whole bed with spot uncleared where knee pad was. white beans on black dirt with lots of brown stuff on it. grass, leaves, and a small ivy plant. some tiny brown plants and another green plant in the bed.

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sweet corn in a glove and their packet

I dropped these in some places in my area: a spot available for seeds, on flowering vetch, and on peas who didn't already have another corn seed.

We got a lot of rain, but it's too cold for my bare hands.

My archipelago (islands) of seedlings are showing promise and might have made a good picture.

Anasazi sweet corn seed packet certified organic Zea mays usda organic

nature,

I put seeds in 3 little beds today, preparing the beds as I went.

Along the way from place to place, I picked leaves out of establishd beds and crumbled up the brittle leaves and dropped the small pieces back to where I picked them up. The small pea plants are starting to vine, and I took one off a garlic! The garlic is not having a good year? I’m supposed to get a seed scape? They are browning a leaf or two. The corn has not started growing, but neither have the cowpeas.

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nature,

Sowed the following seeds:
Beets (Detroit dark red and unknown), lettuces (leafy: red ruby and black seeded Simpson), parsley (flat [Italian], should get curly [regular] next time), radish (early scarlet), spinach (should get New Zealand Summer Spinach next time), mustard (southern), sunflower mix, kales (red Russian and dwarf Siberian improved), Swiss chard (rainbow), leek, turnip (purple top), and summer squash (tall white Maycock). Winter squash in a couple weeks.

nature,

Nitrogen-fixing cover crops:
Crimson clover, ladino clover, red clover, and alfalfa.

“A garden bed is the area where you grow your plants.” https://singinggnomes.com/2023/03/05/the-differences-between-garden-beds-and-garden-plots/

Nitrogen-fixing food crops:
Rattlesnake snap pole beans, white half-runner snap bush, and pinkeye purplehull cowpea, all drought tolerant!

nature,

Hard to tell how much sun this plot gets and will continue to get as the deciduous tree(s) get their leaves back.

“A garden plot is a large area dedicated to growing many types of different plants.” https://singinggnomes.com/2023/03/05/the-differences-between-garden-beds-and-garden-plots/

Herbs:
Sage and the following powder-like seeds: thyme, oregano, and marjoram (sweet).

I exercised to take a break from sitting or kneeling. I liked the sweet smell of the wisteria purple flowers. I found a tick on my shirt when I went to take a bath.

nature,

I have a few puddles of young, green pea plants, onion scapes, wispy vetch stalks and leaves, and lots of little seedlings turning into a few shapes of young plants of various colors from light green to green and to burgundy.

I prepare the beds by scraping off the leaves and twigs and then, cutting the grass down to the ground and snipping the horizontal, rooted grass stems off the dirt. I leave some fancy grass. I have a feeling this is unnecessary weeding.

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If I could enlarge this plot, I would possibly try a scythe instead of scissors.

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Today, I was itching to get outside and do some more ! My potted plants didn't need much attention, so I made another bed that wrapped around three sides of my knee pad while leaving a path between other beds and a mulched sapling. The bed didn't seem that big, but I ran out of 4 seeds and ran low on 2. I cut a little bit of grass growing through mulch and crumbled leaves onto the young plants. Some peas are vining, so I gave them some branches to find. (pictured)

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another view of a couple garden beds - one clearly has mulch all around it. To the right, there is a fresh bed with pink and white seeds, and there's today's bed behind it. There are small berms sheltering garlic plants who haven't been growing much lately, and there are a couple sets of young, invisible walking onion scapes in front of the last berm at the top center of the picture.
a final look at the 4 garden beds full of young, green, leafy plants. The 1st bed I seeded this weekend is at the bottom and full of pink and white seeds. There are branches and sticks for pea vines, and there are stick & leaf berms and some bigger branches. I can see the pink and white seeds in the distance near the top center of the photo. Some tree branch shadows that may fill out with leaves soon, reducing the sunlight that this plot will get.

nature, to gardening

My peas germinated! @gardening
I tugged on this sprout, thinking it was a piece of grass, and the bush pea was firmly rooted to the ground!

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This whole month of winter January in North America, I missed out on preparing or starting to grow a few crops, but I'm getting started for February. I don't have to worry about drought tolerant plants in this El Niño wet winter! I think it's too late for starting rosemary, but maybe I can start some stevia and then some oregano.

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I cleared off some mulch, cut the grass by hand, and dropped some bush peas and vining/sugar peas.

nature,

got my seeds organized for the year: some for tomorrow, February, March or early spring, etc. My frost is only about nine weeks away! @gardening

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Gardening

I'm a fan of Masanobu Fukuoka, but I don't aspire to farm a crop. I aspire to simply practice horticulture. Thanks to Fukuoka's editor, Larry Korn, I am also inspired by indigenous peoples' gardening all over the world. The books I recommend are Fukuoka's 1st, 2nd, and last and Korn's book about Fukuoka. I am also interested in the indigenous practice of setting fire. I'm interested in native plants and nitrogen-fixers. Fukuoka recommended a shelterbelt, which can increase humidity.

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