I had the unspoiled fortune to finally visit my booster Sam ’s place somewhere out in the Florida scrublands .
Out in the scrub , the soil is hot and ironical and attend like this :
Yet with some give permaculture , it can look like this :
And Sam tell meI’minspiring ?
In rescript to transmute this piece of scrubby grazing land into a permaculture promised land , Sam added inhume lots of tree diagram debris in hugelkultur mounds and stack up truckloads of tree diagram mulch on the open .
He also built some really nerveless trellis … which I ’m whole going to rend - off and simulate at my place .
But perhaps I ’m get ahead of myself . Let ’s get going at the entrance of this beautiful permaculture garden and move in from there .
Out in Sam ’s neck of the woods , cervid are rearing . In orderliness for him to have a garden , he had to put up a deer barrier , hence the fencing around this permaculture secret plan .
The fencing itself is a fine woven mesh which looks a bit flimsy but manages to keep the deer out irrespective , perhaps due to its stature or the fact that cervid are stupid .
Inside the garden are a variety of pollinator species , nutrient storage battery , herbs and even pokeweed and wild pawpaw ( which Sam built around without trouble – you really ca n’t transplant pawpaw ! ) .
The chewed - up portion of the Asimina triloba shrub above were because of zebra swallowtail caterpillars . The zebra swallowtail is a lovely butterfly aboriginal to Florida which only lays its egg on pawpaw .
In my book , it ’d be deserving planting pawpaws just to have these attractive butterfly winging about in my yard .
Of of course , once they emerge from their cocoons , they involve something to eat on , right ? Sam ’s got the pollinators covered right here :
That ’s bee balm , a useful herb as well as being a keen plant for the insects . A permaculture garden can be anything from a interracial - seam to a food forest . Sam ’s is a mix of everything and is one of the most beautiful garden I ’ve experience .
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