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Permaculture - How you can use permaculture practices to improve your gardening
- 2024/06/21
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In this episode we discuss the rain Minnesota has been dealing with of late, and permaculture - what it is and why it's important. You can find us on Facebook, and also join the Facebook group. If you have a gardening question, please email Mary at lewis.mary.e@gmail.com or Liz at liz@greenrootsfarm.org 00:00 Mary, Mary, quite contrary. How does your garden grow? Well, that all depends. But that's not really what this podcast is about. We're here to help you grow your garden. Welcome to Mary and the Master Gardener. Good morning, Liz. How are you on this not raining morning? Well, I'm doing all right. Hoping to get outside a little bit. Yeah, my son was out shifting all the quote unquote 00:28 dry wood to the end of the woodshed toward the wood burning boiler thingy we have for our wood for our furnace this morning because it was just dry enough to get on it because we have wet wood that needs to get moved over there and he was like I'm going to go do it now before it starts raining again. Smart. So why don't we chat about rain and what it is doing to whatever we have planted. 00:57 and why rain is beneficial, but what happens when there's too much. 01:02 Yes. 01:06 So what happens? Yeah, what happens when there's too much? Well, depending on where your plants are located, right? So if they're in a lower lying area coming down off of a hill, you're going to get a lot more water. But depending on how you're able to kind of secure drainage in a way. 01:32 And then maybe doing a little bit of protection too for some plants. Um, like my garden, half of it is kind of underwater right now. So trying to get just some of it is just allowing it to try to rebound naturally. 01:53 But then also making sure that you can put things down on top of it to help with some absorption, but some of it is taking your hits. Yeah, and some of our plants are doing great. Our onions are doing great. I'm guessing that's because onions like water because they need to make that big fat bulb. Right, and there are a lot of water-loving 02:23 plants that will do very well in this, right? So we've got the humidity, we've got a lot of rain, and then we are getting some intense sun when it is not raining. So a lot of perennial flowers love this. All of mine are doing magnificent, but that also means some of the weeds are doing just as well. Yes, gotta love those weeds. 02:52 They don't care. They're gonna grow whether it rains or it suns or it pours or it snows sometimes even. So yeah. Weds are great. Okay, so I know that we have little tomato seedlings in. They've been in for, oh my goodness, at least three weeks and they are pretty much stalled out and they're starting to yellow. 03:19 Does this mean we're gonna lose our tomato plants this year? No, not completely. If they're getting just too much water, if they're just getting too much, but I would start by maybe putting some mulch or something around it. And you can even do some of those, you know, like a, like a clutch to kind of cover them and protect them from some of that direct, that direct rain coming onto it. 03:47 And it'll give it a little bit of protection then from some of the pooling water as well. But take some of the leaves off, if you can, the lowest. That'll help. That'll help it a bit. And then yeah, allowing it to try to get some protection in those places. But I don't think they're lost. I don't think they're lost. Tomatoes like it too. They like the heat. They like the humidity. 04:18 Okay, good. I had looked at the AccuWeather forecast, you know, the long range forecast a week and a half ago. AccuWeather said that a week and a half ago was when all this constant daily rain was going to stop and it was going to get hot and dry. And they lied. I also talked to a lady from the old farmer's almanac on my other podcast weeks ago. 04:45 And I asked her what the forecast was according to the old farmer's almanac for our area. And she said, hot and dry summer. Today or tomorrow. Tomorrow is the first day of summer. Um, I'm hoping that she's correct because this, this daily rain is, is not really great for anybody right now. Yeah. And hopefully there's enough time in between that, that it's able to absorb into the soil, but yeah, it's. 05:15 It is good for plants that are trying to transplant or grow right now, but if it's too much, it's going to drown them. Yeah. Our garden is a part of our business. It is mostly my husband's favorite thing on earth to do, to decompress from work. And so he's going to keep going at it all summer long. He's going to do everything he can to make it go. 05:45 But I'm not going to lie, I'm very happy that the garden is not our sole source of income because I suspect we would not be making a lot of money this year. 05:56 Yeah, I think part of this too is, is, you know, kind of what we talked about in the last episode was like that being able to adapt. So what is kind of coming and then learning, it's a learning curve, right? You're you're ...