In the last blog post you have read, and seen, the latest updates from the raised beds at TU. Yet some tandems are also making progress outside of the TU grounds.
Triqi, Anna and Fiona, for instance, have started their guerrilla gardening experiment in early June:
Under the premise of observing, if and how much fences and signs protect guerrilla gardens the team has created/chosen 4 experimental sides:
- No fence, no sign
2. No fence, sign
3. Fence, no sign (no photo yet)
And
4. Fence and sign (no photo of the side with sign and fence together)
And elsewhere?
On Tempelhofer Feld, Cornelius and Simone have started to paint their garden red in late April.
The idea was to see the plants growing from the beginning on so they bought seeds and planted them in the beginning of May.
With a team of Leuchtstoff and friends they decided where to plant and what to plant.
Below you can see their space, marked in red. The green dots are corn, the yellow ones are peas and later on, if there is space in between the plants, pumpkin will join them, which is marked in blue.
The bed is getting greener and greener – however Simone & Cornelous were wondering, whether the other plants inbetween are weeds (which would need to be removed) or not. Maybe one of you has an advice on that?
Hi,
thanks so much for the update.
I thought to give some input on the question of Cornelius and Simone:
The Milpa-bed (traditionally with beans instead of peas- but serving the same purpose) is a nice idea for small areas like in their raised bed, however, especially vegetables need sufficient space to grow properly.
Since the planting sketch looks really tight already, I‘d remove the unwanted plants. I could recognise some as Melde (which is also edible but can grow up to 1m high, taking up nutrients the corn may need), others I couldn‘t identify from the small image.
Anyway, I‘d remove the unwanted plants and put them as mulch inbetween the wanted ones (corn is the longish green one looking like a big grass plant, peas and pumpkin can be recognized by the winding / climbing parts.) Mulch serves as a protection for erosion, helps against too much evaporation of water from the soil and while it rots sets free the bound nutrients for your crops.
I hope you find this helpful,
Jenny