Watched Bare Lawn to Sustainable Garden Eden: How he Did it during a wee break today.
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Watched Bare Lawn to Sustainable Garden Eden: How he Did it during a wee break today.
The man has made an incredible garden and it's mostly a raised-bed affair that was "no dig".
Place is loaded with fruit and veg and some flowers.There is some severe privilege going on though, man owns an orchard which is why his garden is laoded with heritage apples but still, an incredible bit of work.
The part that always dampens my ambitions is the time it takes. He, and his family, clearly had no intention of moving house as the apple trees are 18 years old! So the garden was at least 18 years in the making, assuming apple was planted as soon as they moved in.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to 🎑 Rí Rua na dùbhlachd 🏔️ last edited by
@ruari it's like with edible chestnuts.
It takes about 15 years for a new tree to produce those nuts. But the best producing trees are hundreds of years old.
We have chestnut trees but ours are young. So every Autumn I go for walk and find the chestnuts on the road by the big old massive ones. Because if I don't they always get squashed and run over. The calorific content in these chestnuts are amazing. That bowl of chestnuts does the carbs for over 10 meals for two people.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@ruari I dread the time that land gets bought and someone cuts those trees down.
So I've been casually tossing some of those nuts into a messy bit. If nothing else it might feed some of the animals in the winter. But those nuts might give a tree a good start.
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🎑 Rí Rua na dùbhlachd 🏔️replied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict that's something I think is difficult. You'd hope a gardener person would come in and would keep an aspect of the garden going. It's one thing we're wrestling with with our garden.
We moved in and it was unkempt, like years worth of no care. As we've cut back we've discovered various features that someone put in but not necessarily the previous people. So we're trying to find a way to return those pieces to use, keep what the previous people put in as well as modify it for our wants too.
Clearing it for only our own wants feels somewhat disrepectful to the effort of those past and the lives of the plants and animals whose home it is currently.Those chestnuts look amazing, incredible calories in a bowl! Were they not super popular in years past? It's a wonder we don't grow them, so much, for food anymore.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to 🎑 Rí Rua na dùbhlachd 🏔️ last edited by
@ruari Chestnuts are very tricky to prepare. @dentangle has prepared them in the past and he can tell you probably why folks don't.
When I tried it was very painful and time consuming.
But chestnuts looked after well are an amazing resource, you can Pollard or coppice them and they can live for a couple of thousand years.
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Olireplied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict
I do that too!
When collecting nuts with the kids, we always left plenty and always threw some into places where they might grow safely away from grazing animals - a "thankyou" to the tree
