Potager in Because it torments me for three years already, because I waited too long to offer me this book I was dreaming (The Art of the Potager in square Prédine Eric and Jean-Paul Collaert) and that it is now exhausted, I ended up giving me this:
've decided to give up my garden "online" to get into creating a garden in squares. Several reasons motivate this choice:
- the same surface as an online garden, we harvest a greater variety of vegetables and it's still nice to have variety to the plate
- apart from the initial implementation that takes a bit of thought and elbow grease, this kind of garden requires less work to maintain
- space is optimized ergonomically for spare themselves the trouble: maximum width of three parcels in order to always have ready access to each parcel from the aisles and not have to extend the arm too far for work, finished spaces between riquiqui each row of vegetables where you can barely put a foot where we wallow in the mud when it rained ...
- it is more compatible with a comprehensive "bio" of culture: mixed cultivation plots in a single plate to facilitate inter-species protection against pests, water conservation, crop rotation etc ...
- then we have need a basket lined with a few hand tools to deal with this green oasis, which suits me much because I'm like "dreamy" to take me regularly feet in the rakes and other tool handles. This will save me making countless trips back in the chalet to pick up tools that I could not lug the first trip.
- it's as much an aesthetic garden traditional growing areas are demarcated by borders (wood, brick, pavers ... anything goes) and lanes, we mix it with flowers, vegetables and aromatics.
For a lover of history like me, it's also an opportunity to immerse myself in some research ... This kind of garden is reminiscent of the poetic "hortus conclusus" medieval (and this also gives me many ideas for future quilts and embroidery).
I intend to do a sort of logbook of this project so "Virtual" through this blog and also so real with a notebook on which I hold my plantation, my crops, natural treatments, the design ideas with sketches, etc ... I am very excited about this project dear to my heart and hope to complete it.
Mr Mirabilys helped me take steps in this part of the garden that will serve as my "playground and experience", I made a scale drawing and I am currently trying to calculate the number of boards and parts as I would have to feed us. I already have several different plans for my plots seamlessly, decide the location of driveways without losing too much space for culture (my garden is not so big!). I'll show these plans as soon as I'm satisfied. It lacks an important element to finish developing this plan: the dimensions of the pool (we have not made our choice).
You wonder what might well be a pool in a garden .... It's been quite a vegetable garden is almost a garden dressed up and I want to give a hidden meaning, symbolism in this little corner of paradise ... Exactly, the word is out: "PARADISE". The Garden of Eden, in the texts, is a garden divided by four rivers .... this gave the garden enclosure of monasteries divided into four parts, Eastern and Andalusian gardens with a pond, a fountain in the middle.
Those who have visited the Andalusian gardens of the Alhambra, or those smaller houses in Cordoba and Granada in particular know how the gentle murmur of water is nice ... The song of the water has a healing power and brings freshness to the garden. If care is taken to construct the basin on the floor (I mean hence the pool is dug and the water flush with the ground) with the correct dimensions and some plants, it is very likely a small wildlife will settle by itself: the frogs and toads it will take up residence (these are very useful auxiliaries to the garden because they eat a number of unwanted critters) and there are chances that the dragonflies nearby stream are more likely to visit (I have time time to wander in the garden, especially blue).
I've spotted a floating solar fountain that also serves as a filter that would be perfect to oxygenate the water daily from high heat. No electricity required, no unsightly cable, great!
That ... the project begins to take shape on paper ... and hopefully soon in the garden.
