Nezuko time! Yeah, we called our new companion Nezuko, after the anime "Demon Slayer", which we're both fans of. She's very curious, loving and demanding as well.
Our first arugula sprout of the season. These are seeds from our plant that we simply buried under more soil right where they were. There are plenty more sprouting but this was the better picture 😊
This is a small variety of carrots we tried out in last year's garden. They might not impress with their size but their tolerance to cold and frosts was superb. They went all winter without loosing strength and so we transplanted them for seeds this year.
People who believe in the influence of the moon over plants tend to transplant on full moon because the sap is at the top of the plant. We believe this so we moved out currants, strawberries, carrots (second year so they're for seeds), and flowers.
@choli has been busy getting some prune trees inside bags, as well as rosemary cuttings to containers where they can grow roots. We have an excess of prune trees in the land so if we mean to diversify we'll try trading/selling at the local market.
Michay (berberis darwinii) is a native plant from south Chile and it bears edible fruits and flowers. Currently the flower buttons are starting to show, signalling the coming of spring.
With the decrease of frost and the increase of rain we start seeing mushrooms pop from the ground again. Help on identifying this guy would be great. Does anyone have a go-to site or app for fungi ID?
Sage plant freshly transplanted 👌
The toilet structure is almost finished. Good thing we managed to find all the necessary pieces among the scavenged wood we had been gathering through this time.
Nezuko bids you farewell and a nice weekend!
Greetings fellow Hivers and Liketuers 👋
Here we are once again sharing a few fragments from our homesteading journey.
Today we'll be sharing more of what's going on in the garden and some thoughts on how our experiments have been performing.
We begin our garden last year and we tried to find a balance between @choli 's desire to produce abundant food and @fenngen ' s wish to kickstart a process of diversifying the flora of the place, with hopes of establishing an ecosystem that both produces food as well as cares for the soil and the other lifeform present already.
A few things that we did different from a conventional garden were:
Not pulling "weeds" from root, but rather cutting the vegetable part and leaving it to rot on the ground, producing nutrients for the other plants and keeping the soil moist.
Leaving plants alive without consuming them so that they can produce seeds that are better adapted to this climate and environment.
Adding more soil to the surviving plants during fall and winter so that the roots don't freeze, while only eating an amount of leaves that wouldn't put their lives at risk.
The results weren't too impressive on what plant growth refers. The soil was very clayish when we begin and was not well prepared for a garden. However, there soil this year looks highly improved, rich with organic matter and a great structure. Also, many plants made it through the winter despite the lack of a hothouse, which is a nice achievement for this cold part of the world.
Now, when spring is only beginning, we already have plants sprouting from last year's seeds and plenty of others that are still standing and beginning to look livelier with the improvement of weather.