Ligaya Gardening Tips #16 Encourage fungi
Some of our best garden helpers work unseen. Fungi are at the interface of the organic and inorganic and do so much for our gardens, even those varieties that you can’t eat
plant nutrition
Ligaya Gardening Tips #15 Grow Azolla
Azolla is an amazing plant. It only needs a little water, it’s a nutritious fodder plant for the chickens. We use it as a mulch for the big plant pots
Pruning time…
I spent a bit of the last couple of days pruning the deciduous fruit trees, so the garden looks a bit bare. I’m no expert on pruning but I’ve got some good ideas over the last couple of years from visits to Joe’s Connected Garden. The smaller trees have been pruned into my approximation of a vase shape and I’m trying to keep them down to about 4 metres tall. The Plum and Almond trees are a bit different. We want them tall, 6 metres or so because they are key to making the lounge, sitting area and front porch cool and shady in Summer, so I let a lot of their branches get tall while cutting back enough to give us an accessible harvest in the warmer weather. The fruit that pops up in the upper branches are our gift to the birds. The wood that I cut is divided into piles… One pile for garden stakes, one is
