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Hello fellow gardeners. Garden here in Slovenia is more or less prepared. A little photo description below for you all.
[spring salad] Even in grey December we have a little spring taste. Spring salad set seeds, seeds hit the ground and i covered the bed with a bit of compost. Germination was good, i thinned a bit and covered with fleece. We already picked the outer leaves once and now we can do it again. Lots of rain and cloudy days these year here, but growth is good anyway. Nice addition to chicory salad bowl.
[wool] Woolen jumper for the winter for garden bed.
In the back there is a garden bed covered with unfinished compost for peppers and tomatoes next year.
Next to the woollen bed on left side we have a challenge, grass path, constant invasion into the bed, we need to do something about it! Leaves, cardboard before winter for sure. Any additional tips are welcomed.No-Dig parsnips!
First time growing them, more of them next year for sure![oak leaf sucsession planting] When we harvested late cabagge in september, we covered the bed with compost and planted winter oak leaf salad. It needs harevesting now before winter! We could’ve harvested it already, i have no idea why we didn’t!
Althoug we have constant rain and moisture garden can be walked thanks to leaves on paths.
It’s so nice and rewarding to see the job done for the season 2015.
You have done really well, sorry the weather has been so wet this year. No dig copes well with exttremes!
Great photos.
I”ve put some leaves down in a ditch surrounding our no-dig beds, but even after a few dousings of rain, they seem to enjoy taking a walk onto the rocket/spring onion patch.
Do you put a bit of soil down with the leaves to compact them or is Slovenia just a little less windy than here in the UK?
rtj1211, we are sorounded by forest, most of Slovenia is forest so we have natural wind protections, there is quite a lot of wind but it is eaten by the forest.
I also find out, that once leaves get wet they slime toghether and it’s hard for them to blow away. I do not put any soil with them, just leaves.charles, thank you so much! This year is really, really wet. I miss sun.
Great job Zuf and satsifying to know the garden will be quick off the blocks in spring time.
I wondered if the clearing your garden is in was already there when you started up or if you needed to fell and clear forest before you made a start? If so, that must have been a huge undertaking initially! Nice parsnips too.
Hello. The farm was abandoned for three years, so area where the garden is now was overgrown with grasses and perenial weeds and here and there a young tree or bush. Couple of years more and it would be young woodland. In past when farm was active it was a crop field, which are usualy tilled here in Slovenia. I like to turn crop fields into big gardens.
Not too big, it depends on material availble.
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