Massive congratulations to you on this most happy day!
I would personally add some salad type stuff in the gaps, like rocket, lettuce & parsley. And then i would let a few plants go to flower at the end of the year and collect seeds as these things will potentially grow through the winter. We always drop below zero here but the rocket, lettuce & parsley are not affected. It should be noted that if a plant is capable of growing all year, then we should probably be eating it all year.
You could also just let the seeds drop where they want at the end of the year and see where they start to grow. Usually they choose the place where they are happiest.
Don't forget to throw in a bit of electroculture!
The most simple thing you could do is just spiral some copper wire on a stick (ideally going clockwise from the top to the bottom) and put it in the middle of the plants. You will see how the plants closer to the antenna are healthier and this will make you want more elctroculture...
Have fun & please give my best wishes to the magnificent city of New York 🌱
I love the "if it grows all year, we should be eating it all year" idea. Parsley for sure, mine was only unavailable for two months here, not far from where @futuremind lives. ong
I've gotten very fond of dandelion root this year. Fresh, lightly cooked, it's very good! I let my dandelions go to attract early bees and pollinators, so I have a ton of the stuff. I think we could eat that year round too, as long as we could dig it out of the frozen ground.
Dandelion root sounds interesting. I am not sure if I've ever heard of eating it like this. Really cool!
It's actually very good, kind of like a carrot. Everywhere!
Excellent reminder for me there. Have been letting dandelions do their thing in my garden for the last few years after planting a bunch there to get them started. And until now i've not used them for anything except salad leaves. Looking forward to trying something new 🙏
You are the only other person I know who encourages dandelions. They put on quite a show in the spring! I love everything about them. Those that come up in my raised beds are very easy to harvest. Today I plan to make a wild leek and dandelion root soup, with other stuff of course, because I can't control myself in the kitchen.
Thank you for the kind words and advice @samstonehill!
I'll add these recommendations to the list of things to grow in the garden this year. I have some lettuce seeds already so it won't take me long to get that going.
I hadn't considered whether or not I'm going to add some copper coils, but now I'm feeling motivated to give it a try.
I'll refer back to this as a guide when I am preparing to make them. The shapers I believe come in both clockwise and counterclockwise but I'll have to check the prints to make sure.
Thanks again, I'm super excited to see how this gardening project goes. No animal assaults last night so we're off to a good start :D
I wrote a post on the clockwise/anti-clockwise question here but in essence i believe it relates to our requirements. Bigger plants like trees which extend above the antenna will respond well to one direction while smaller plants which sit beneath it will respond well the other. We are sending earth energy upward or cosmic energy downward. Though with this said i have seen good (and bad!) results with both so i no longer think it is as simple as this. Season, type of plant & exact position on the land all seem to play a role, so you could just ignore my comment altogether and simply play around, making sure to observe your results carefully.
There is an antenna in my double infinity potato bed (copper wire going clockwise from top to bottom) and the potatoes around the antenna are around double the size as those which are further away, despite receiving same light and same water.
You can just about see in this image. Bamboo antenna on the right.
Can also see a bunch of random stuff popping up at the base of the antenna. Tomato, rocket, lettuce and it blows my mind how these same things are not popping up further away from the antenna, despite receiving same water, same light etc. They simply have more cosmic energy there. So that's cool!
We also found a new plant near one antenna which we've never seen in our garden before, like an orange coloured poppy. Could be unrelated but i've read about this happening with pyramids. They can unlock old varieties which are thought to be extinct. So when the conditions are correct the rules of our playground change and that which appears like magic can happen...