Something between lines

Today I have added another few seeds to a little experimental patch between the grapevine lines: it's all about natural farming... Lots of time it's going to pass before it gets to some decent production level. Anyway, the seeds I have found were already soooo old that I will really enjoy the surprise of whatever it comes.



A couple of selected japanese seeds from long time ago...

Yeah I wonder if they are still good and if they will make it in this poor hard soil: it's burdock and daikon. The hope for them is to drill into the soil and soften it up as they grow. They are mixed up on the "right lane" still with fresh mulch added today.

In the middle there is a widely sheet-mulched line of asparagus and on the left line I have planted peanuts as a nitrogen fixing leguminous yearly crop. In Permaculture we refer to sheet-mulching as a speedy way of amending the soil, containing native plants around your crops. Basically it consists in adding a layer of cardboard (without printed stuff and traces of glue) under a regular straw/mulch layer possibly with some compost or manure... which I didn't have anyway. The cardboard cuts the light to the seeds and the roots of native plants, so you just need to poke a hole to make the space for your plants.

We'll see...