Plans for Spring

So far I haven't penned anything that is pertinent to Urban Organics.

I have been growing my own food in several small plots in my courtyard over the last eight years. It is a sacrifice in that I have to take out ornamental plants and flowers, wherever there is any full sun. Oleander and Foxgloves cannot be eaten and I wouldn't recommend it anyway.

I have left the main plot to fallow and fester for a year because I have gardened it to death for so long. There is a limit to what I can harvest successfully but leafy greens and oniony things will grow profusely.

I have three compost piles which I turn alternately every three days. Everything that grows in the garden gets mulched and composted which keeps the whole process self-sustaining. I add the kitchen scraps and have noticed with amazement how much fresh produce a one person household can consume. I added a bag of Red Wriggler worms and they have multiplied 1000s of times and the neighbours get them as well. There are so many they are having orgies in the eggshells and avocado cups. When the compost becomes soil again, it all goes back to the plots, while I keep some of the wormy stuff for the next lot of compost - a bit like keeping some yoghurt as culture for the next batch.

I know it is pointless to fertilise during Winter but the garden gets a good dose of Blood and Bone or Dynamic Lifter anyway. The Faeries like it as an atmosphere deodoriser and it keeps the Trolls and Orcs aways.

The garden needs shit.