My Vegetable Organic Gardening Experience

My last quarter-acre block had a bore to provide plenty of water. I planted some garden beds with vegetable seeds in the conventional way. Then I scratched little trenches (about 2 inches deep and wide) and buried my potato peeling in the trenches. Then I took a kilo (2.2 lbs) of broad beans (fava beans) and broadcast them over the same ground, then I went over the same ground placing sweet-corn seed carefully under the weed stubble.

That still left about half my garden unplanted. So I mowed the ground, mixed up all the left-over seed from my seed packets and broadcast them over the remaining soil.

Each seed finds the micro-climate conditions best suited to it - or dies.

There is plenty of competition. The plants that survive are strong, healthy vegetables. When I want to transplant a seedling, I pull out a weed and plant the seedling in the hole. Pests like unhealthy plants so this is the natural garden pest control method.

Oh, the potato peelings grow into potatoes where the conditions suit them.

The broad beans are a winter crop and provide nitrogen for the corn and potatoes, and beans for me to eat.

Oh, you may have gathered that I am very lazy. That’s why I like permaculture. If I can plant a tree and forget about it, except when I harvest, that suits me fine. For that reason I grew Madagascar Beans and Hyacinth Beans which are both perennials and climbed over everything without me needing to plant them again each year. Both taste good to me.

So my advice for organic gardening for beginners in to plant more, and more, and more...

By: James Kronefield

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