Perelandra Virtual Garden Tour (C: Straw-Mulched Sections)

A virtual tour of the Perelandra garden given by Machaelle's garden assistants during the 2007 season.
(The Straw-Mulched Sections: Part 3 of 12)

It helps to remember when one is trying to understand what's going on at Perelandra that this is a research garden, not a home-kitchen garden. Although we get a lot of produce out of the garden, produce is not the main focus. It centers around the research, the essences production, and the publications that are a result of what goes on in this garden.

The garden is set up to conserve natural moisture and is sparingly watered by us. Nature tells us what to water and when — and how much. During the 1999 serious drought, we only watered all the plants one time and about 25 percent of the plants one additional time.

The straw mulch is for moisture conservation, weed control and soil conditioning. It is tilled under in the fall and a couple of inches of new straw is put on the garden for the winter. The rows will then be reopened for the spring planting and in May, 10-12 inches of additional straw will be spread.

The placement, pattern, variety, numbers of plants, colors, planting rhythm and fertilizer needs are given to Machaelle in the fall from the devic level and are all part of this garden's precision. (How this is done is described in detail in the two Perelandra Garden Workbooks.) Machaelle makes charts from the nature information. The spring planting is simply a translation of these charts into the garden.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• gardening
• ecology
• nature
• Perelandra
• co-creative science
• environment
• flower
• essences
• health
• MAP
• microbial balancing

[maerichl]

Seeing this vid of the garden makes me want to walk in it for a personal tour, though this is the next best thing.

Thank you!