Carbon Gardens: Part 4 - Nursery

SolarPunk Permaculture

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Nursery Nursery work is plant work. If you're working or playing w/ plants, you're in the nursery game. Now the genie is off your back and you've begun pushing solar panels into the sky via billions of little green blades. You look around at the iridescent green magic carpet beyond your toes. Seems bare, right. Seems like you need some plants to grow. Make it a little more… bushy. I’ll tell you a tale that got me thinking about growing plants and setting up nurseries to do so. I was in the forest one day thinking to myself... “*Dude, it takes a loooonnng time for a forest system to build and produce its own topsoil. It's also taking a looooong time to build that compost in my 440L bays.” “Carbon production in terms of time is slower than the forever spiral of our galactic expanse.” I hear, murmuring faintly at my feet. “WTF!?” I exclaimed with a stiffened stare in the midline of my mind. *BONK* - I wince and grab my knee! “Ooft! What the hell are you doing?” She looked up to me and said; “Here, use these.” - Dropping a small timber on my toes. “If you've only got a bit of compost going and a bunch of twigs, you can make a hugelkultur!” - She exclaimed in her strange raspy accent. Hey!? Hugel Vulture? - I reply. A hugelkultur! You idiot. Just collect a bunch of twigs and off-cuttings from pruned trees. You can even throw in some weeds ya pulled from the front path ya dummy. - She grumbled. “Righto mate, calm down. I hear ya.” “And when you're done, stack that stuff on the floor and drop ya half-arsed compost on top, followed by some of that cardboard ya pulled out the bin ya filthy animal!” - She ordered. “Is it just me or are you getting progressively more angry as this conversation continues.” “Just shut-up and hugelkultur wouldya maaan!” - she blasted with an erratic edge. “Ok. sure. Will do. Aaahh... Can I ask one more question?” “I haven't got all day.” “Should I have something to cover the cardboard? Will that help sweat and break the cardboard down for the worms in the compost?” “Ya grew all this grass didn't yeh?” --------- @mr.betteridge --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solarpunkpermaculture/message

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