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mber 2018 winter salad from the foraging garden this week i m joining in with the lovely happy acres blog s harvest monday feature and am sharing my morning s harvest with you it s the beginning of my abundant free salad season my perennial salad plants seem to be at their best from now through until the spring so i m looking forward to a season ahead with lots of fresh salad i m also feeling super chuffed at not having had to lift a finger to make that happen so for my lunch time salad today i picked some wild rocket from the flower bed this plant is probably about five years old now and i thought it had had it actually but as you can see it s still soldiering on even if it is a little long in the tooth it s just starting to pick up after i chopped all the flower heads off during the autumn so this is the start of my rocket season during the summer i still use it a little but it tends to get little holes nibbled into it from flea beetles so i m a bit selective about which visitors i feed it too over winter this isn t a problem today i used this as the bulk ingredient nearby i still have a little milky bellflower in leaf which is good and mild flavoured again now it s finished flowering i also picked a little sweet violet leaf from under my apple tree this one tastes good but is a little hairy not the texture you tend to think of when planning a salad so i just put a little in and generally no one notices my lamb s lettuce is just starting to come through i bought seed for this maybe ten years ago now and since then i ve never needed to sow it again it appears in my vegetable beds and some flower beds each autumn and grows away until it flowers and goes to seed in the spring at that point i weed it all out to make room for vegetables but so long as i let it seed it always comes back in the autumn this is a really good mild salad leaf with lovely flavour and texture a little later in the winter i should be able to use this as a bulk ingredient too right now i just have little bits to use but it s well worth adding in nevertheless also in the vegetable garden are a few marigold plants which are still flowering away well i just use the petals although you can eat the whole flower over to the forest garden i have some new salad plants my saltbushes these are related to quinoa and so are really mineral rich and they really do taste salty the leaves have a great texture and the flavour is really good too lastly were some primrose flowers from under my silver birch tree we ate this for lunch with a simple honey oil and vinegar dressing and some roast squash for more harvesting inspiration head over to happy acres to see what else is coming out of the garden right now 8 comments tuesday 4 december 2018 drought relief a regenerative gardening approach it s currently pouring with rain so it seems rather odd to be sat here writing about drought relief but this year we had a really hot dry summer and plants around here really suffered so with that in mind i m taking measures to improve things for the years to come and i m using a biological regenerative approach if you re into organic gardening and haven t come across the regenerative approach i urge you strongly to find out more i ve been banging on about helping your soil food web increasing the microbes in your soil for a while but this year i did a bunch of research listened to some lectures read a few books and feel like i ve emerged with much better understanding of what s going on between our plants the soil and the life in the soil this regenerative approach is not just really helpful to me in the garden it s also rather exciting perhaps in a geeky kind of way i admit but i think i m going to have projects to work on off the back of all of this for many years to come as i explore the implications of this new way of looking at the world very nice i ll list up some sources of info for you at the bottom of the post if you want some pointers for your own research so drought prevention is all about allowing rain to infiltrate your soil and then providing the means for it to hang around without waterlogging the area you ve got a few steps to think about firstly where is rain being prevented from soaking in days like today are perfect for investigating this get your raincoat on and head out there to see where water is pooling up these areas have a problem and if you have a heavy clay soil like me you re sure to be able to find them if you re on a sandy soil you can skip this step step 1 below and move on to step 2 working to hold on to water so for a clay soil you ve found your puddling areas and you ll notice that these are likely to be areas with moss or other problem weeds with either sharp creeping roots or tap rooting ones such as couch grass dock and thistle in these areas there is soil compaction going on at some level in the soil profile maybe at or near the top but maybe deeper down where you have soil compaction and water logging your plant roots cannot penetrate they need oxygen to be healthy your plants need microbes and beneficial microbes cannot survive in waterlogged conditions disease causing ones can survive here it s really important to sort this out you have two steps to improve this step 1 open up the clay using compost and grit sharp sand this is the classic advice for these situations and doing this provides instant gaps between the tiny clay particles allowing water and oxygen in where you have open soil free from plants dig these materials in mix them with your soil to at least a spade s depth but ideally these areas should be double dug dig out soil to a spade s depth and then fork over the base mixing in compost and grit to a second spade s depth for areas with established perennial plants use a combination of a compost mulch along with narrow yet deep holes filled with compost and grit sand to do this use a sharpened bean pole metal rod or similar to punch holes an inch or two wide and at least a foot deep into the soil all around your plants mix compost and grit sand together in a bucket and sprinkle it into the holes step 2 seed your soil with microbes to keep it both free draining and moisture retentive in the long term step one if done using shop bought compost can easily revert back to rubbish waterlogged soil unless that is you set up a system for the soil to keep itself open and to keep adding more organic matter to itself each year what i m about to describe paradoxically helps a sandy soil in the opposite way by also helping the soil to hold on to any water passing through for both good drainage and moisture retention as a long term condition you need microbes this is where the biological regenerative approach comes in add either home made compost a well made aerated compost tea or a shop bought microbial soil amendment such as an em1 liquid feed or my current favourite from here in the uk microbz soil improver watering on aerated compost tea note the large holes in the watering can s rose big enough to let the microbes through microbes do three important things for the soil in terms of drought resistance firstly they form symbiotic relationships with plants helping them to produce ever more complex chemical structures from simple sugars right up to enzymes proteins lipids fats and ultimately the complex organic compounds better known as humic acids these humic substances are stable organic compounds unlike the organic matter in shop bought compost they cannot be digested and broken down into simpler substances such as carbon dioxide gas they are a stable store of carbon in the soil and will help your soil to maintain a good structure your soil will soak in more water yet will be free draining enough for this water not to puddle up secondly micro organisms actively improve the structure of the soil themselves by producing a glue like substance that binds tiny soil particles into micro aggregates bacteria make tiny soil aggregates and fungi produce larger yet still very small ones all in all your soil will become more randomly structured and so more naturally porous water will soak in and drain through your soil more extensively plant roots will be able to extend more deeply and thoroughly into the soil enabling your plants to reach deeper stores of water during dry weather in this magnified image of some activated compost you can clearly see the fungal hyphae as white strands this compost has been prepared this way to make an aerated compost tea that is rich in fungi for my more woody plants the third important drought busting thing that microbes do is to use these soil aggregates to feed water to plants water will cling on to these teeny tiny clumps of soil in a microfilm around them even under the driest of conditions experiments have shown how much water can be held this way if a fully saturated soil is described as being 100 saturated with water a dry dusty soil that blows about in the wind the type we had here in the uk in abundance last summer is still 70 saturated that s a lot of unexpected water it s just that the water is held as a microfilm around the soil aggregates under normal farming conditions or in gardens that use a lot of chemicals or have been suffering with water logged soil ie where there are no beneficial microbes this is a problem as plants can t access water that is held in this way the water is too tightly bound to the soil particles for plant roots to be able to pull it off but microbes can get at this water and if you have lots of those in your soil forming symbiotic relationships with your plants they will feed this water to your plants in return for some of the sugars that your plants are producing each day so it s a win win situation drought shmought as i said the way to increase microbes in your soil is by adding home made compost an aerated compost tea or a microbial product such as em1 or microbz the best times to apply these things are the autumn and spring this needs to be coupled up really with full plant cover microbes and plants come together the one feeding the other to grow more microbes you need to grow more plants as they live and thrive in the root systems of your plants once you ve set up this system it is self perpetuating and you don t need to repeat it unless something drastic happens like you use heavy machinery on the soil during wet weather compacting it again or in a vegetable garden that gets dug up regularly this will damage and at least partly destroy the microbe communities in the soil so it is worth seeding these in once a year as i said i ve been toying around with some of these ideas for years but feel like i m only now getting to grips with the wider implications of our microbial helpers this year is the first year i ve been applying these techniques broadscale in my garden i m looking forward to seeing the results of this and will keep you posted if you re liking the sound of this give it a go and if you do it d be great to hear how it s working for you so post us up something in the comments below for more information about regenerative practices good starters include regeneration international who are working to increase the use of this approach globally international news about this is posted up on their page along with their own blog articles inspirational reading advancing eco agriculture are based in the us they provide loads of free information a blog podcast webinars and you tube lectures about using the regenerative approach in farming they re doing some great work the book farm as ecosystem by jerry brunetti is a great primer lastly search for anything by elaine ingham on you tube she s just great no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom linkwithin search this blog permaculture from scratch oak house is in shropshire near the welsh borders we re converting what began as an old concrete covered farmyard into a permaculture inspired garden this blog follows our progress experiments research and thoughts as we create a forest garden organic vegetable garden and begin to live a bit of the good life the oak house journey a project begins year 1 in review year 2 in review year 3 in review yard plans browse blog posts plants experiments soil plans vegetables reclamation forest garden aesthetics permaculture herbs permaculture personalities harvest thoughts films lotions and potions permaculture design water weeds companion plants microbes permaculture principles recycling animals buildings recipes regenerative gardening climate fun perennial vegetables pest control foraging fuel home meadow visits wildlife zoning readers favourite oak house posts chamomile as a companion plant the comfrey and strawberry experiment sepp holzer and micro climate management herbs and creams clover for chop and drop soil creation becoming a permaculture learning centre comfrey tea nancy lowe natural gardens new i am now offering garden mentoring sessions both in general garden care and in growing vegetables using organic and regenerative techniques i also offer garden design services and can provide you with hand drafted planting schemes or full garden designs depending on your requirements nancy lowe natural gardens permaculture land centre the permaculture association uk has set up a network of permaculture demonstration sites across the country the land network so that people can find out more about how permaculture is put into practice oak house permaculture project is proud to be registered as a land learner a trainee demonstration site we are hoping to be upgraded to a full land centre very soon my favourite blogs regeneration international dinamarca prepara un modelo agrícola sostenible y limpio en poco tiempo instituciones públicas estatales de dinamarca sólo servirán alimentos de origen orgánico the post dinamarca prepara un modelo agrícola so 5 days ago our plot at green lane allotments a week of steady changes the temperature on thursday was just about perfect just like one of those lovely summer days where it s warm but not too hot i d happily take that all 5 days ago alternative kitchen garden don t forget to feed the fish an oracle an acolyte a lake full of rainbow fish and a world full of questions 1 week ago wild yorkshire pigmy goats drawing the pigmy goats at blacker hall farm reminds me of the two minute pose warm up drawing at the start of a life drawing class the only poses that do 1 week ago happy acres blog april 2026 update most of the month of april was extremely dry here with very little rainfall last year we had a whopping 11 inches of rain in april which drowned crops a 1 week ago the urban veg patch prepping the garden at the start of spring how goes the work is a favourite phrase from the farmer duck book having read the book numerous times to small children it s become a rhetorical ques 3 weeks ago our permaculture life hello world welcome to wordpress this is your first post edit or delete it then start writing 4 months ago 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