Permaculture calls this a guild: a canopy of fruit trees, a shrub layer of berry bushes, and a ground layer of edibles that cover the soil. The front lawn came up in rolled strips of sod, a thick mat of straw mulch went down to kill off the last roots, and three young fruit saplings went in along the length of the yard — apple, fig, and pear, staked upright. Blueberry and red currant bushes filled the gaps between trunks, and strawberries, creeping thyme, and broad comfrey leaves covered the ground layer. A curving mulch path keeps picking distances short. Fruit trees take two to five years to crop heavily, but the ground layer produces by the first summer and the berry bushes by year two. The neighbor still mows every Saturday.
Made with the assistance of VEO AI
5 Comments
California Dreaming
TO ME THIS IS A BIG NO NO !!!!! 😮😢😮
I love it. Add a few tomatoes. But look out your neighbors will be sneaking your fruit
Pomegranates?❤
Hard to believe, but some cities still frown on this. Imagine how many bees love this sanctuary!❤😊