Horseshoe Garden – Gardens for Life

This is a small no-dig and near zero-maintenance garden started at the beginning of June. It has proven itself extremely vigorous and productive with minimal effort after the initial establishment phase.

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A good few large pumkins / winter squash out of a small area with zero hours of maintenance put it over the summer.

Nasturtium taking over the grasses mid October – Great for the insects

exponential groth rates – this is after only 8 weeks

Portuguese Kale is also known as walking stick – delicious leaves and perennial plants

french parsley, oca, courgette, wood mallow and onions

diverse polyculture of mixed tuberous flowers, herbs and greens

4 weeks after planting plants are really taking off

topped with 4 inch layer of woodchips / branchmulch and started planting

a layer of cardboard to block the weeds topped with a 4-6 inch layer of mushroom compost

2 thoughts on “Horseshoe Garden”

Wendy Freeman says:

November 22, 2017 at 12:01 am

Absolutely amazing results – definitely going to try your techniques. Do you have details here of the mushroom compost making, I assume you don’t buy that in?
1. rhubarb says:
  
  November 22, 2017 at 10:43 am
  
  Actually we are bringing in mushroom compost from a mushroom farm. It’s made up of straw, chicken manure and gypsum. It is well composted, used to grow mushrooms for 6 weeks, steamed and discarded. This is why it’s available for cheap, transporting it on the other hand is not cheap. You could make it yourself, but when setting up a large garden you may need a few tons of it. We got a truck load and used all of it in a few weeks, also 4 large loads of woodchips. Fertility for years to come! 😀 https://gardensforlife.ie/general-gallery/#jp-carousel-1316

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