As those of you who read this blog regularly will know, we were blessed with the gift of a community allotment back in March. It's been a bit of a journey preparing it for summer growing as it had been neglected for some years. However we are slowly getting there and have managed to rescue fruit bushes, strawberries and a few leeks and plant a growing variety of other fruits and vegetables. On Friday I got out the malachite and jars from our garden in Orkney and began to plan how best to use these to enhance the soil for fruit and vegetable growing on our new plot.
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| Malachite for vegetable and fruit plots |
Ideally, each growing bed is planted with an appropriately programmed malachite to each corner. The crystals are placed in lidded empty glass jars or in gravel filled clay pots. This is so they can be moved about if the use of the beds changes and also ensures the crystals stay where placed if there is hopefully a lot of worm activity.
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| Suitable containers for planting the malachite |
If you are interested in actioning this for yourself, on your own plot, full details are given under Enhancing Our Soils in the pages section of this blog.
On our new allotment, I am considering energy gridding the whole site in this way in time as we have around 14 small beds in total which is a lot of pieces of malachite. However for this year at least I will place the crystals in the usual manner to the beds we have managed to clear for growth.
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| Malachite pieces, with suitable jar and pot for vegetable plot planting by current bush |
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