The bed-mandala - high yield and minimal maintenance Bashny.Net

The bed-mandala round shape has a number of trails in the form of keyholes. The paths allow you to reach all corners of the beds without stepping on the ground most beds.
According Permaculture techniques you do not have to step on the soil beds, so as not to compact it. Gardeners-permakulturisty Jeff Lawton say that if you use mulch and compost, you'll never have to dig, and you will not disturb the soil life. Bacteria and microorganisms is best not to disturb.



Thus, the soil life flourishes and helps you get a rich harvest vegetables from the garden.
Geoff Lawton says: "We do not feed the plants and soil microorganisms. Billions of bacteria and microorganisms, so who is doing a great job and makes the soil fertile. »

The only thing to do is to regularly make a good mulch and compost, nature very quickly revise it in the soil. The paths in the form of keyholes allow you to easily reach all corners of the beds and all the plants are easy to care.

An easy way to design a bed-mandala is to mark paths, keyholes, using a garden hose length to mark the border.
A perfect circle can be defined by pulling the hose from the central point, and mark them to a circle.
Bricks are stacked exactly on marked boundaries. This bed-mandala formed by the intersection of the four axes, arranged at the ends of paths, keyholes.


The beds, the center of the mandala is made small pond, which grows taro. Eggplant, beets, bok choy, tomatoes, parsley, salad and a variety of Japanese culinary herbs grow on such a bed with minimal care.

"This is a health food store, and it should be for everyone." Geoff Lawton.