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No Dig Gardening. Your work becomes harvesting, watering and planting – not weeding, feeding, and fighting pests. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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No Dig Gardening
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WHY?
* Any surface* Water holding* Nutrients* Clean – no toxins* Clean – no weed seeds* Replenish worn out soils quickly* No preparation work removing weeds* Easy to manage - cuts like butter
Your work becomes
harvesting, watering and planting – not
weeding, feeding, and
fighting pests
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Feed a family of three in 10 sq. m
Recipe online: Diggers Seed Club, Heronswood, Victoria
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WHERE?
on concreteon earth
over weedsover competition (eg tree roots)
in containers
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Roof gardens
Hundertwasser House
public housing, Vienna
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DESIGN
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Bed shape
• Least path• Can’t step on beds – one arm reach wide• Based on arm circles• Kneeling space in centre
Planting zones
• Pathside greens – cut and come again• Longest & biggest things in the centre
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Potatoes
Beans and peas
Corn & pumpkin
Raspberries, fennel,
artichokes
Plum tree
Design
Beans
Cherry tree
Compost
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For the the big, the slow and the anti-social
eg corn, potatoes, melons, pumpkin
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HOW?
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Layers
Straw: 10cm
Compost: 20cm
Straw: 30cm
Earth or concrete
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• Sprinkle with dolomite – to add magnesium• Fertilise each year /season as usual - add seaweed
preparations for trace elements• Rotate crops as usual - eg
• beans/ lettuce, then • tomatoes or cabbages/ onions or corn/ pumpkins,
then • silverbeet/ beetroot/ carrot
• Use companion planting and plant stacking to maximise yields
How to
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Non-hybrid seed varieties
eg Eden Seeds
Diggers Seeds
Garden characteristics, not field machinery
Locally adapted (eg resistant to bolting)
Interesting, diverse – appearance and taste
Self seed and breed true
Need conserving – gene diversity
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GETTING THE MOST OUT OF IT
Companion planting/ guilds
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Companion planting/ space stacking
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STACKING
Companion plants
Lettuce, spring onions & carrots
Different root zones
Different leaf zones
Compatible chemicals
Insect interactions
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Spring onions
Lettuce
Carrot
ParsleyLeek
COMPANION GUILDS
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TomatoBasil
COMPANION GUILDS
Celery
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COMPANION GUILDS
Bush beans
Rocket
Chives Strawberries
Peas
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Since Mayan times
The three sisters:
corn, pumpkin and climbing beans
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COSTS
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Costs
Straw - $40Compost - $320Railway sleepers – 8 x $20 eachSeedlings & Seeds - $100TOTAL = $620
Weekly box of vegies = $40
Time to ROI = 4 months
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Effort
Initial• 1.5 days to construct (2 people)
Ongoing• About 1-2 hours per week, includes
watering and dinner harvesting
Less than the mowing?
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Ongoing inputs
• Over winter, about 180l of water each 2-3 days– We use tank water, our household consumption is
70 l per person per day– Greywater recycling is the next step
• Seedlings and seeds – about every 3 weeks approx $5 per week
• One big bag of rooster booster $16• A bale of hay $7
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RESULTS
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Planted April Fools’ Day
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7 weeks old
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September
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HARVEST
We stopped our Food Connect vegie box in May. We’ve only bought potatoes, garlic and onions since
then.
(and a weekly Food Connect fruit box)
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Every single day from the living salad bowl
Pak choy, bok choy, choy sum, tatsoi
Lettuce, chicory, rocket
Dill, parsley, coriander
Spring onions
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broad beans, beans, peas, snowpeas
Plus every week
broccoli, cauliflower, chinese cabbage,
brussel sprouts
silverbeet, beetroot, carrot, spinach
leeks, tomatoes, parsnip, celery, turnips,
radish
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RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
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www.brisbanelocalfood.ning.com
links to information & more websites
social network format – everyone can add content
gardens
groups
events etc
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www.greenharvest.com.au
seeds, plants, products & plant info (Maleny: mail order)
www.cityfoodgrowers.com.au
plant information, social & produce marketplace