Vertical Growers 07/17/08
Here is a picture of the two vertical growers in my backyard as of today. There is a lot of growing going on in this small space. Plus the water draining through the four plant boxes makes for good tea for the rest of the garden. If only all my garden space were so productive. However, on the chicken-wire fence I built for the pole beans I noticed there are a number of long green beans already. So the vertical growing space along with the pole bean fence and the always-productive mint production circle are in competition for the most production per foot. On the other hand the lettuce and tomato mounds lag far behind. Small is good when it is productive.
Making the best use of what we have, be it garden space or our talents, is a way of life. Instead of always looking for ‘more’, as in more of something, we should always be looking for ‘more’ in terms of better using what we got. In a past posting I complained about not having access to brewer’s yeast as waste for making compost and feeding worms. Well the other day my friend Godsil gave me two buckets of brewer’s yeast. I came home and put a bucket on the worm depository, where I grow worms, and kept the other one on the garage for future use. The next day I went out to the garden and smelled something terrible. I have never had trouble with smell of my compost or worm castings, which are odorless, so I did not know the source. I finally, with use of my nose, tracked it down and found it was the bucket of brewer’s yeast in the garage. It smelled terrible. I quickly put it on the worm depository and today put wood chips on it to cover the smell. So in this case the more I was looking for not only was not really necessary (I have plenty of nitrogen like coffee grounds), but it smelled. Small is good and sometimes more, meaning more stuff, smells.
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