There is a reason why I`ve not been on my blog for so many weeks. We were very busy with our new garden project this spring. As any new initiative it takes usually a grate effort to start and going on when facing challenges.
Last year our family failed with looking after our allotment which was located far from the house and as not convenient ended up neglected, covered with weeds and finally abandoned .
When still missing a taste of real organic veges but not provided with an efficient time and gardening experience but just having a little space of a back garden covered with a wild lawn, we needed something different. A few months ago our friend, a Christian missioner, shared with us an idea of a pallets supplemented by wooden chips. He convinced us that we didn`t need a large piece of arable land to obtain a satisfactory harvest. We picked up the idea that if people changed their mind on farming, it would be possible to feed the whole world with available resources placed on the area equal in size of Texas(!). Intrigued by this perspective we decided to work it out on a small scale.
It involved some DIY in the beginning (done by my husband) to build planters from pallets.
Then we filled it up with 3 layers: soil, compost and wood chips.
My handy man put some drainers on the bottom of the planters to collect `compost tea` i.e. excess of water, reach in nutrients, in order to recycle it when watering.
In the meantime I seeded vegetables in trays keeping them on window sills as a green house still remained only in my dreams. After few weeks I replanted seedlings into planters` compost outside and topped up with wooden chips.
For the benefits of using wooden chips see the video:
https://youtu.be/ji9XL4LXosE
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