The Herb Spiral
Our latest family garden project is to produce a herb spiral [or an herb spiral for US readers]. This is a permaculture concept whereby you build a pyramid / cone of earth up to one metre high and then construct a spiral bed up from the bottom to the top to plant your herbs in. It’s one of those things that looks simple, elegant and obvious in the nice line drawings you find in the books….
So far we have a herb heap. Sods of turf have formed the base of the hill, these were coated with some woodchips and then some topsoil. Rowan then did a lot of stamping and jumping off the top to firm it up. The next stage is to use stones to build the spiral bed. It is hard to imagine it working at this stage, but we will keep you posted.
Look at http://www.mitra.biz/howto_herbspiral.htm or http://www.austinprogressivecalendar.com/selwyn/herbspiral.htm to see how it should look. When ours is complete, we’ll show you how they really look.
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