Once they've grown some, we'll plant them throughout the garden and they'll become part of the perennial food web we've been constructing for years now.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
An army of par-cell seedlings
Once they've grown some, we'll plant them throughout the garden and they'll become part of the perennial food web we've been constructing for years now.
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I'm guessing you don't have a big rabbit problem in the Riviera of the south. I had plans for climbing beans and aspargus under the fruit and nut trees, brambles and currants. NZ spinach, parsley, herbs all mixed in. Damn rabbits mean my carrots, peas, beans, corn, lettuce, brassicas only survive under covers of bird netting over willow hoops. I cut down 2 & 3 L drink containers to protect each sunflower. Netting guards around new pumpkins. Eating the rabbits would be my permaculture solution, if we had time to go rabbit shooting every morning.
Bugged by bunnies, huh?
There are rabbits and hares in Riverton, but none have ever ventured into my garden, so vigorous is the herbal understorey. They just don't like not being able to see their enemies and so don't come in. Never had a fruit tree de-barked, never had a lettuce nibbled.
I wish you luck with your pests.
We do have one of those L things around the house, dirty word in permaculture circles, but good for cricket and soccer and also as a firebreak as it can get very dry here. You are right, rabbits only like short grass. I should plant some veges in our tree paddocks and see how that goes.
Cow parsley will solve all of your problems. Throw in some alexanders and fennel, par-cell and comfrey and you'll never be bothered by them again.
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