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RE: The Unplanned, Satisfying Growth of Our Food Forest
OMG! @thelaundrylady y'all are killin it! I've been tumbling down the permaculture rabbit hole myself. My perspective has totally changed on weeds. They are now compost/mulch for my blueberries and fig trees in the backyard. Once I found out about wood chips! total game changer :) Love y'alls garden, I know the work that took. Really great knowledge here, I'm working toward a permaculture homestead and this post has some great knowledge for the plant guilds. Thank you for sharing, Amazing job :)
Thank you so much for your kind words! Really appreciate your comment. Same here, I used to not allow anything to grow around fruit trees thinking they would compete, but permaculture method of growing fruit trees changed the way I think. I also use weeds as part of the mulch now mixed in with wood chips.
Mulch has been a total game changer for us too - things I've struggled with in previous years are actually beginning to thrive because we've mulched over the past two summers. We've been mulching with chopped leaves because we have gigantic piles of them in the fall: we pile them into the orchard area and by summer they've settled down to a nice dense mulch blanket. The trees are loving it. And I'm appreciating having to do less watering and weeding.