Garden Plans > 2022: Nicole's Garden

About this Garden Plan
A permaculture garden using continuous polyculture method and rotating round chicken 'tractors'.
Plan Type, Soil and Location
Garden Location:	South-East Queensland, Australia
Garden Size:	56.00m x 110.00m
Garden Type:	Home garden
Garden Layout:	Other layout
Sun or Shade:	Sunny
Garden Soil Type:	Heavy / Clay soil
Plan Notes
Spring plants: don't put jerusalem artichokes in august planted beds. They aren't ready by february. Jerusalem artichokes - plant on east side of lower beds as they are most useful as shade. Plant outside the dome area if not likely to be ready on time. Put melons in amongst all corn beds. Not worth growing potatoes planted after August, except perhaps purple congo. They yield but not well, with a lot of pests, and at the expense of daily ladybird checks. Not worth growing brassicas with heads after september. Heads get eaten out. Planting in august is ok but come october everything is decimated. Basil is untouched by chooks and survives the dome! Can keep it perennial/self-seeding (which it's doing readily). Eggplant survives the dome and can be perennial. Can grow jicama perennially if careful with harvesting, so don't grow in the dome. Grow peanuts around the base of fruit trees. Can be hard to get them to ripen in dome rotation time. Use freshly shelled home grown peanuts for seed. Bought seed had a terrible germination rate. Buy heat mat to germinate capsicums, eggplants and jicama in late july/early august. Otherwise germination rate is terrible. Will have to use Dipel regularly for caterpillars from october through february or even longer. Second lot of planned planting in these plans generally didn't work out. Soil too depleted after the first lot. Even beans barely did anything. Cucumbers, especially non-lebanese types, take up way more room than these diagrams recommend. Everything took longer to bear than planned. Almost no small seeds successfully germinated outdoors in plants between december and february inclusive, even radishes did poorly. Only beans, melons and corn did ok. Climbing beans not ok. Corn was hit and miss. Plant some lettuces (and coriander) to raise under the house in summer. Worth trying quick green cabbages like sugarloaf in summer, under shade cloth and exclusion netting. Brussels sprouts planted november and planted out in february under shade cloth did well but needed regular dipel. Ensure tall plants are on the south side in winter. In summer, try to plant something tall on the outer western and eastern side of the top 3 and bottom 2 beds as partly windbreak and partly shade. Jerusalem artichokes in front of the sugarcane wall would be ideal. Peas: for later plantings, use novella leafless to reduce mildew Potatoes: need 2 whole beds dedicated to them, or at least 1/3 of each bed between march and august otherwise (all 8 beds). Beans: climbing beans planted in november fruited at the same time as those planted in february. Save climbing beans for the end of the summer and for early autumn. May even bear much of autumn and into winter. Don't put beans in the middle of the bed!

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