OFFGRID ORGANIC FARM

Straw bale gardening is one of many options for dealing with poor soil. How do you know that you have poor soil? To begin, have your soil tested by your local Cooperative Extension Office. These tests can determine the pH level of your soil, assess the fertility and health of the microorganism colonies living in the soil, and provide you with useful information on which organic amendments to add. In order to make the straw bales a good habitat for garden vegetables, you’ll need to condition each bale, which turns it into a growing medium. This is the most time-intensive part of the project, but don’t worry! Nature does most of the work. Days 1 to 3: Once your straw bales are in place, take the garden hose and water each bale thoroughly. Soak it with water. You need to do this once a day for three days to start the conditioning process. The bales begin to decompose. As the microorganisms start to work, the inside of the bale heats up. Days 4 to 6: On days 4, 5 and 6, you will nee

1) Choose the right time: cuttings can be made from August to November, when the stems of the year have grown well and matured / aged. 2) Clean your pruning shears thoroughly: remove any grime, then use alcohol and / or flame. This is to avoid staining the wound, and an infection reaches the plant. 3) Prepare the soil / pot: the soil must be very loose, draining but able to retain a little moisture. For example, you can mix 1/2 potting soil and 1/2 sand, or 1/3 potting soil, 1/3 sand and 1/3 peat. If you are planting in pots, you need a pot at least 10cm high. If you plant in the ground, plan ~ 20cm deep and complete with 5cm of the above mixture in the bottom. 4) Choose the right stems: choose stems that have grown in the year, straight and with 2-3 eyes / buds, about 15cm long if you plant in pots, 22-23cm long if you plant in full Earth. Make the lower cut a few millimeters above a bud, beveled on the side opposite the bud, to promote the recovery of the mother plant on this b

By the compost. Then the potatoes, laid on the ground and covered with straw. It's a good way to aerate the land and prepare it for crops. Then you can opt for the buttes in lasagna, but they seem more suited to drought climates. In my case I chose vegetable squares. The essential rules of permaculture are to never leave the soil bare (mulching), not to return it in depth (you can air it with a spade or a special tool called grelinette) and alternate crops. You can also add flowers to your garden, it's pretty and it attracts pollinators. Some are even more useful like marigolds, borage or marigolds. Once you are started, you can learn about plants that use "self-help" mechanisms to associate them.

We need to eliminate all the fruits which grow on a tree, because it takes at least 1 or 2 years to the tree to produce its first fruit - apple, pear, peach, apricot, ... The strawberry grows in 3-4 months, but not directly from the seed. From a plant. Melon and watermelon grow in 3-4 months depending on the climate from the seed. In the tropics, it's more like 2-3 months. In the tropics, banana and pineapple can grow in 2 months, but also from a plant, not a seed. For vegetables, cucumber can make a fruit in less than 2 months in the tropics (it's a fruit, in botany). Lettuce can also grow in 2 months in summer. Or in the tropics. Stronger, the mache can grow even faster in summer, but it is grown especially in winter. Radish grows very fast. There is even a variety called "18 days radish". Finally, the fastest of all, it is the shoots of soy, mung bean or other, which take between 2 and 5 days.