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Showing posts with label Donnington Food Forest Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donnington Food Forest Project. Show all posts
Friday, November 18, 2016

Back Yard Project: Applying More Pattern Language Principles

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Rough sketches for the Lower Patio. I am working on designs for the lower patio area where a broken down hot tub was removed. It is the...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Rainy Season on Vancouver Island

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There are really only 2 seasons on Vancouver Island - the wet season and the dry season. Here are the dates of the first rain - th...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Teasels - a cloth worker's tool.

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This year's teasel harvest I refreshed the teasels at the front door.  This is my shingle. elserine is a weaver.  Dur...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Backyard Project- Preparing for Blasting

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Much excitement. A truck backed up the back track with a most unusual load. Old rubber tires have been threaded together with ...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Backyard Project - Moisture - Mulch - Mulberry

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Ron calibrating the moisture meter. When the rains stopped late June and our dry season began we had to start hand watering all of th...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Backyard Project - Planting in the Gravel Bed Garden

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Gravel Bed garden The plants I planted a couple of months ago are thriving, confirming my design criteria for this bed will work. All...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Backyard Project - Sharing the Fruit and Other Ways of Encouraging Life in the Soil

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We have so enjoyed a small crop of figs off our newly planted trees but we left this one for the ants. The ants are working hard at break...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Backyard Project: Soil Building verses Plant Growing

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Once all of the soil beds had a layer of mulch topped with a deep layer of straw I planted literally hundreds of seeds and waited. Patien...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Backyard Project: Flowers and Hot Mulch

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The garden suddenly turned colourful. In the Cut Flower bed lilies bloomed. This is such a beautiful colour scheme. The ex...