Ben Knofe

Casie Becker wrote:I was all excited because there was actually a reason why alliums and legumes are anti-companions, but you already have this information.  

I am curious if this holds up with older beans.  So far my only really productive and dependable perennial vegetable is a bean.  After a few years does the pest control of the onions start to justify a decrease in nitrogen fixing?  

What do you think about doing and experiment? Do a small bed of your beans interplanted with Alliums and one without and see if there are any differences. I'd love to see the results of that. I guess that's the whole idea here: We all need to experiment and share the results more :)

Hey Simon,

I felt the same a few months ago[1]!

I think one of the great things about permaculture and growing community like Permies in general, is the possibilty to share/trade/swap you products.
Back then I couldn't find anything fitting besides Craigslist or Facebook groups, so I built something myself.

I would love to see your Kentucky Coffeetree seeds in the marketplace! https://permapeople.org/marketplace

Let me know how it goes and if you have any questions,
ben

[1] https://permies.com/t/143784/interested-plant-database-planner-tool

Hey,

We now added a visual garden planner! You can try it out without signing up here: https://permapeople.org/patterns/new

Let me know what you think!

Ben

Current state as of now. Still untouched! The really cool thing are the two new shoots at the bottom left. Pretty far away actually.

Last weekend I joined a spontaneous community garden project. We transformed a dirt patch next to a road into a (soon to be) bee paradise. This is how I left in the morning: tools, two buckets of compost, a bit water and some seeds! It ain't much...

Haha nice! Would love to see a list of these on permapeople! :)

If this is the only spot which is available, it is the best spot :)

Maybe it would help to create some raised beds for the trees? For the spacing I'd say space them as much as possible since it looks like a good amount of trees for the marked space. Make sure to arrange them that they can be accessed easily and all get a good amount of sun. Also think about the understory and what other shrubs and herbs can be used to protect the soil and help the trees (windbreakers, more food, nitrogen fixers, mulch material) aka think of creating a permaculture guild.

I am not sure what you mean with invasive here. Are you worried to introduce a non-native plant to your garden or are you worried the plant will take over a lot of your garden aka. weed potential?

Interesting list. Do you know if they are all native in your area?

Same here, I am very careful to put something non edible or even poisonous in our garden since the kids are used to eat from the garden. Alliums are definitely perfect for a fruit tree guild. I'd recommend strawberries, chives and mint too. I have a peach tree guild with this and can do a great summer fruit salad with peach, strawberries and mint.