September is the time things ramp up Australian gardens, and if you sow seeds you’ve saved yourself, your plants will get stronger year after yearSo many magical things happen in September. Spring officially starts. In many temperate and cool areas, frosts semi-officially stop (it’s hard to make an official agreement with frost). Bees buzz. Seeds germinate. Summer is coming. It’s the time to start ramping things up in the garden.My nonnos Vincenzo and Michele filled their gardens with produce, fence to fence. My nonno Michele lived next door to me my entire childhood and we didn’t have a fence between the two houses, which meant that our garden was his garden. My nonnos didn’t use mulch because there was no bare soil despite them both having large gardens. They used lettuce and radicchio to fill any gaps. They used their own urine as fertiliser (don’t knock it until you try it, but be sure to dilute it). Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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