It has been about a week since I planted minifoodtopia. I can tell you in the sandy soil we have with a few bags of potting soil added, of the 4 sisters, the beans and corn are thriving. In the front, a few amaranth and quinoa seem to have made it, and 2 of the 4 strawberry plants have made it.
The last bed, with the tomatoes and lettuce and moringa, seems to be struggling quite a bit. A few things are sprouting, but I am unable to identify many, and in a few weeks may identify them as just weeds.
The middle bed has yet to be planted. I planted our herbs in Dixie cups, and put them in our small, protected greenhouse, but they did not do well. We had 1 storm, and I think most of them were flooded.
In light of all this, today I spent the entire day replanting new seeds, this time in the paper towel method. This seems so much easier, and you have the ability to only plant what has already sprouted.
I figure I will let them sprout, and then use rolls of toilet paper and rolled up regular paper to mark the little guys in bed 2, and pull everything on the outside of those tiny tubes.
I will use the same method for the places in beds 1 and 3 that are bare for these plants.
I am also working on adding winecaps and oyster mushrooms this week. They will be housed under our wood porch, which is about 4 feet above the ground. We took some leftover pieces of wood from the garden bed to build the small mushroom spaces under the porch. As expensive as mushrooms are, from what I have read, winecap mushrooms and oysters are the easiest to grow.
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