![]() It is entirely organic, vibrantly healthy (we just have to net out the cabbage white from our greens) and it has a feeling of wildness that I love. What has resulted is a riotous polyculture which is low maintenance, seems to robustly cope with hail and late frosts in May after unseasonal warmth in March and heavy rains in April. Ox-eye daisies and opium poppies have seeded all over the mulched paths and I can't bring myself to re-establish order so I am spot weeding out the grasses, docks and dandelions and leaving the flowers be. ![]() Mixed up with annual veg are self seeding salads, a few perennial veg that have not been transplanted to the forest garden, green manures and as many flowers as nature wishes to provide. We sow winter vegetables in August, eat them well into late Spring, pull out what has gone over or hasn't worked well and make room for spring plantings. Our one third acre garden started life as a permaculture design on paper before it was made, but 20 years later Tim and I are erring more and more on letting nature take its course and as well as experimentation.
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