permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

FranksFarm@aol.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I must have missed the post with Larry's list would someone be kind enough to 
> re post that email, or post the URL where it can be found. Thanks. Frank in 
> KY

Ah, Frank. Good to see you posting here again. Tell us what progress 
you've made developing features and systems using Permaculture design 
principles on your land. I remember your work with establishing cover 
crops for soil building, water impoundments and other cropping schemes.

Here, at the pondeosa, I have completed a 10 year soil building program
and now have another experiment going: comparing functionality and 
production capacity of large, long raised planting beds
finished & left as is with my 1100 lb. Roll-A-Cone hiller-bedder
and the same but finished with an extra step by rototilling lightly 
across the tops of these beds to create a wider, lower bed with more 
area for planting and looser seedbed made by the tiller as opposed to 
hand loosening a narrower seedbed on much taller beds left as is by the 
hiller-bedder. I will have different crops planted in each of these two 
areas.

I have a sea of green out there - mixed turnips, kale, turnip greens, 
colards, mustard, etc. from my first 1 1/2 acre planting and am waiting 
for rain to germinate the second 1 1/2 acres planted in spinach, 
coriander, cabbage, mixed greens, hardy lettuce and carrots, some 
onions, chard, beets and more. A lot of this will probably survive the 
winter, especially the greens and do they taste good! Saute turnip 
greens/kale/mustard greens with olive oil, crushed red pepper, a little 
vinegar from pickled hot red peppers, sea salt with a few herbs (GH's 
Trocomare) and maybe some hot red pepper sauce. I pour all of this in a 
large wide bowl and mince 4 or 5 thumb-sized cloves of garlic into the 
hot greens. Serve with hot bread and good local pork sausage.
I am getting 50 lbs. of elephant garlic, softneck garlic, shallots and 
multiplying and walking onlions planted planted this week.

Cheers,

LL