permaculture

["Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>]

The last remnant of my lawn will be gone in the 
2nd year of implementation of the permaculture 
design for my property in central Oklahoma City. 
There's not much left.  One patch was overtaken by 
sand plums, elderberries, comfrey, apple mint, and 
some kind of wild onion that found its way here on 
its own.

I also have a patch of self-seeded tomato plants 
(there were Amish paste and Principe Borghese 
there last year), which is much denser than I 
would ever plant them. They are all growing and 
are very healthy, though, and in fact seem to be 
making their own support as they get bigger.  So 
I'm leaving them as an experiment to see what will 
happen.  I had earlier seeded it with some white 
Dutch clover, and that's looking great.

The Oklahoma drought has definitely been broken 
this year.  Soil moisture and lakes and streams 
are replenished statewide.  All of my perennials 
and trees are doing better than ever.  On Monday 
I'll harvest my first apricots, well, I've been 
nibbling them all week but Monday will be the big 
harvest and apricot jam making day.

Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City

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