{"id":1105,"date":"2017-04-19T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T20:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2017-04-27T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:36:29","slug":"permaculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"Permaculture"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m intrigued by the idea of permaculture gardening — creating landscape installations that are planted once and are then self-sufficient. For growing food, it is\u00a0a slow process — the tomatoes we plant this\u00a0year will produce this year. The fruit, nut, asparagus, etc that we plant this year … we’ll get some in two or three years at the earliest (some nut trees take a decade to produce!). But they’ll keep producing year after year. In some cases, they’ll even spread.<\/p>\n

We planted some apple and peach trees from Trees of Antiquity<\/a> last year – and then found out it was a cicada year (i.e. a really bad year to have new trees). Well, most<\/em> of our new trees made it. This year, I want to start some asparagus\u00a0and nut trees.<\/p>\n

I selected hazelnuts to start — first, we all\u00a0love<\/em> hazelnuts. And it really doesn’t make much sense to put effort into growing something you won’t enjoy. But they also produce nuts in 2-5 years. I ordered them from Willis Orchard<\/a> — I’ve read good and bad reviews of the place, but the shipped prices were great and I read a lot of bad reviews about pretty much\u00a0any<\/em> nursery or orchard. Hazard of shipping live products.<\/p>\n

The trees were small, but I knew that when I purchased them. I\u00a0love<\/em> how these\u00a0bare root trees where shipped. There’s some gooey gel stuff around the bare roots that keeps the trees hydrated (esp good when you are SUPER slow about planting your bare root trees!).<\/p>\n

We’re starting asparagus from seed — it takes longer, but I was able to get unique strains unavailable as crowns. I picked up some berry seeds too – no idea if they’ll actually grow (this is more of an\u00a0experiment than an attempt to cover the yard with cane fruits and cranberries). And strawberries — Home Depot had a whole bunch of strawberry plants well before it was reasonable to plant them … but they\u00a0were beautiful plants on clearance.\u00a0They’re still potted and located close to the house to keep warm.<\/p>\n

I also want to replace our ornamental grasses with something useful (and hopefully something that\u00a0doesn’t spread into the lawn and create an unmowable fibrous mass). Maybe a patch of oats that can reseed themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m intrigued by the idea of permaculture gardening — creating landscape installations that are planted once and are then self-sufficient. For growing food, it is\u00a0a slow process — the tomatoes we plant this\u00a0year will produce this year. The fruit, nut, asparagus, etc that we plant this year … we’ll get some in two or three …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[38,185],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homesteading","tag-gardening","tag-permaculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}