I’ve read lots of books, There it is, my claim to fame. I’m by no means an expert, and there’s always a new book out. There probably always will be. I read what was available to me, and that was many gardeners turned authors. David the Good, Elliot Coleman, Steve Solomon, Joel Salatin, The Doughertys, Jesse Frost, Joseph Lofthouse, Curtis Stone, the list goes on forever (and the party never ends!) I can ramble off details constantly. Surprisingly, my memory is holding up. I have a little secret, though.
My Zone One has sucked this year and last. This is supposed to be the easy place. We’re supposed to just grab something a few steps from the door to enhance our breakfast. We’re supposed to be able to invite our friends’ kids to grab a snack when they stop by and get bored with the cool arcade cabinet I built a few years ago. (Yes, I saw a squirrel and chased it!)
Back to my point, I started with Zone 1 before I broke any ground in the yard. Some people may have remembered my little endeavor on MeWe called TechGardening, I actually have some early videos from back then. I hung some shoe bags from the wall. Dangling like tapestries, they were able to produce leafy things very well. There wasn’t a weed in sight and we had plenty of greens that winter. .I learned something very important in the process. Controlling your surface area will reduce your workload. After two summers of intense Texas heat, the shoe bags failed. I moved on to microgreens.
I am trying to slowly rebuild Zone 1. We need two more Greenstalks, since they are UV rated, unlike shoe bags. What I envision is a spinach tower, a lettuce tower, and a choy-komatsuna tower. The Spring and Summer plans haven’t fully materialized, but one tower definitely needs to be strawberries.
The herbs in Zone 2 can be moved over, making more room for potted trees there.
Now, to fix the economy…
