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Kt’s Permaculture Garden - December 2021

3/12/2021

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I’m here, back to all things digital, after a month long break somehow turned into a whole  six months. My garden also was mainly left to its own devices for the second half of the growing season too, but here are a few photos I did take over that time.
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This raised bed contained a wonderful polyculture of runner beans, French beans, field beans, 2 varieties of kale, rainbow chard, mixed radish, rocket, nasturtium, calendula, borage and mixed lettuces. It was abundant both in food for me to eat and also for pollinators too. The sunflower heads and water dish in the foreground are for extra insect attracting and care.
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I had a really big harvest of runner beans this year and so harvested many late to use the actual beans (they are delicious!) - I’ll definitely be doing this again next year.
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Borage and calendula flower ice cubes
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We did a LOT of resting in sunny places
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This squash plant (Pattinson Blanc from Real Seeds), was the complete star of the growing season - I harvested more than 40 fruits from the one plant. It was grown in Dalefoot wool, bracken and comfrey compost, without any supplementary feeding.
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These two lovely girls arrived for further care and rehab via hedgehog hospital. After several months with me were successfully released back into the wild, care of a large, safe garden with lots of great habitat (not mine, I live next to a busy road!), where they will have supplementary feeding if they choose too.
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The last harvest of edible flowers before Storm Arwen arrived last weekend
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My wild garden just got on with its own thing for much of the late summer/autumn too.
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And more recently in the wild garden I’ve been creating more habit and soil regeneration areas
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Checkout the Real Seeds catalogue for 2022 here and the website for Dalefoot composts here 
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