Revival of Our Garden

I am a big believer in recycling things and putting as many things to good use for as many times as possible and for as long as possible.

Permaculture has come to my attention while I was learning about gardening.

I made a start by collecting plant cuttings, leafs, kitchen scraps and anything that can decompose.

To me it makes just more sense use nature’s recycling power and create new fertile soil.

Anyway, today I was digging in one of our two flower beds, to see what is in the soil and to pick out all the stones and pebbles.

I couldn’t help but notice that there was a lot of clay and dead soil in the flower bed. Also the bottom of the flower bed is just plain concrete.

Also, I found many onion smelling leek like grass plants. They smell like onion and look like mini leek once pulled out. My wife and I thought it was actually “negi” (spring onions) but my mother-in-law said they are not “negi”. They are something else…I just haven’t figured out what it is yet.😅

Weirdly, when I came back home from the Netherlands, our whole garden was infested with these leek like weed plants.😱

And I also found that moles have been tunneling around our whole garden and made many mound formations. I am not sure how to deal with them yet.

But I for sure will not kill them.

At worst they can affect the plant roots but I doubt that it will be a problem.

Aesthetically though, the mole mounds are cute at first sight but having to trample them back into the ground can be annoying on the long run.

I am thinking about decorating the soil between the rocks and stones with the pebbles I collected from the flower bed, to reduce weed growth and to dry the soil beneath so that it becomes more difficult for the moles to tunnel around.

After all, moles like digging around in the wet soil in search for insects and earthworms.

To be continued…

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