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Garden for climate resilience [1]
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Date: 2023-05-13
Resilient crops
This year I’m growing again in an area that used to be a garden but has lain fallow for a couple years. The focus of this garden is to grow staple crops in a manner which may provide some resistance to failure from heat and drought. The slightly sunken beds are on contour with soil mounded on the downhill side to prevent water runoff. Plants are mulched and fed with grass clippings from our meadows (electric lawnmower). Design inspired by David the Good’s “Grocery Row” gardens. Maintenance inspired by Pete Kanaris’ syntropic garden.
Central Texas Hill Country, growing zone 8a/b
Annual vegetables
Landrace flour corn (bred from Southwest Indigenous corn varieties)
Tatume summer squash
Rancho Marques winter squash
Waltham Butternut winter squash
White potatoes
Sweet potatoes (somewhat perennial in this climate, but not reliably so)
Golden beet
Vroma fava bean
Watermelon mix
Perennial vegetables
Garlic chives
Bunching onions
Asparagus (legacy from previous garden)
Spineless prickly pear aka Nopales
Fruit trees
Peach
Apple
Mulberry
Support trees
Moringa
Thornless honey locust
Resources
Grocery Row Garden
Syntropic Agroforestry
Landrace Gardening
Shopping
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Native Seeds
Joseph Lofthouse Seeds
Raintree Nursery
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