🌱✌️What you can do now for your garden
Hey Permapeople,
Long time, no see! How are all your gardens doing?
I was too busy with life and planted garlic just a few days ago, which is pretty late in the winter season here in Berlin. But I think it's important to reflect on the principles of regenerative gardening: Get inspired by the things you have and use them with the time you have. We don't need to buy much for a successful garden. A few weeks ago, we've built a closet and used the cardboard of it to cover the beds. Now I had some time for planting garlic I saved last season, so I returned to that bed and saw the cardboard again. So I just stuck garlic cloves in the pattern, covered lightly with self-made compost, and added a thin layer of half-rotten grass clippings, I've found in the back of our garden. I planted ~80 garlic cloves like that with zero inputs besides a bit of my time.
Let's talk about the things you can do now, even when your gardens lay dormant (when you live in the northern hemisphere).
Catalogue, share and obtain seeds
Now is the time to start thinking about what you want to grow next year. Get your seedbox out and make a list of all seeds available. Create a list to know what you have. Do you have a lot of one variety? Can you share, trade, or sell a few?
| Check out the marketplace |
Plan your garden
After you selected seeds, it's time to think about how you can use the space you have available. Get a piece of paper, draw your beds and start putting plants in it. First in a rough concept and later, with some research of spacings and companions, more fine-grained until all plants are set. You can use the database for research or the pattern designer to do it digitally.
| Create a garden design |
Keep track of your activities
All the things we do have a purpose. We want to see the plants we plan, plant, and nurture thriving and give us a nice yield. I think the biggest factor from making me successful in my garden and learning more, is the fact, that I keep forgetting what I did exactly and when. I started with a simple spreadsheet and added a single line for all activities but it was hard to use it on the phone in the garden. This is why we created the garden journal.
| Write your first journal entry |
Make sure to not get surprised by frost
I know it's pretty late for most of us and we had already frosty temperatures, but we added a frost notification to Permapeople. All you need to do is add a location to your profile.
We are looking for a marketing co-founder
On another note: We are tinkerers in our gardens and on the platform and love to add tools, which make our gardens more successful. What we are not good at is marketing. Therefore, we are looking for a marketing co-founder. We need someone to help get more people to know Permapeople, build a community, and create original content. If you are interested (or know someone who might be), please reach out and we are happy to chat.
Happy holidays 🌱✌️,
Ben